Frustrated by enduring corruption, prosecutors have asked a federal judge in Manhattan to replace the independent investigator in charge of rooting out mob involvement and other problems in the carpenters? union in New York. In a scathing petition, federal prosecutors called for ousting the investigator, saying he had done far too little to clean up a union known for helping mobsters get lucrative jobs at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and for taking payoffs so that nonunion employees could be hired. The United States attorney in Manhattan, Michael J. Garcia, filed a 25-page petition last Friday that repeatedly belittled the investigator, William Callahan, saying his ?tenure has been marked by incomplete and slow-moving investigations? and ?virtually no new evidence of corruption.?
See "Judge Urged to Replace a Union Investigator", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, September 20, 2007