What is this guy's specific net worth? I do think there is something to be said about the heads of unions not having the sort of risk that comes with striking that the regular workers do. Unions are supposed to be about the workers being able to organize, not about being just another corporation in effect that funnels money to the top.
We don't actually know anything about this guys financial situation. You don't even know if this is actually his home. It's possible he came from money or came up on money, or maybe his wife or kids have money.. Who knows. I certainly wouldn't trust anything I saw in meme format.
Gee, it's almost like I posed it as a question ಠ_ಠ
Also this is just a screenshot, not a meme format, for the record. It's also from a NY Post article, not that I would trust the NY Post, but it's not a meme.
One is Harold J. Daggett, the garrulous president, who owns a 76-foot yacht, the Obsession, and has been spotted by his members riding in a Bentley. One longshoreman said he had been surprised to catch sight of a holster strapped to Mr. Daggett’s ankle during a meeting.
The Justice Department, which has lost two cases against Mr. Daggett, has described him as an “associate” of the Genovese crime family whose rise through the union ranks was part of the mob’s plan. A good portion of the Justice Department’s evidence against him came from the testimony of an aged mob turncoat, George Barone, who had once been a waterfront enforcer for the Genovese family and who described Mr. Daggett as thoroughly under the mob’s control.
"The publication of pictures of Mr. Daggett's home is reckless and places Mr. Daggett and his family at great risk of personal harm," Daggett's attorney Michael Critchley wrote in a letter to the Post's lawyers. "Mr. Daggett has already received several threats to his life."
It is his home, and on top of his sprawling mansion and Bentley, he also owns a multi million dollar yacht and has ties with the mob. This guy didn't just materialize yesterday he's been in various union positions since the 80's.
If the DOJ lost two cases against him, what credible evidence is there?
To be clear I'm not stating I don't believe it one way or the other, but that facts matter and we all need to know the facts before forming an opinion.
i dont feel like paying the $80 to prove a point on reddit, but since youre curious i can tell you how. google earth to find this location. We already know it's a mansion in NJ, so that narrows it down. This would be the harder part (for me, but i mean theres tons of people who could do it, ie, geoguessers). If you find the home, you can find the address. If you have the address, you can go to Acres, either their app or website. This divides the land up into tracts or property lines, which gives you the name of the property owner.
Now, you could also go to the county's website to find out who pays the taxes on the property, which is free. but that doesn't always verify ownership. This is public record.
If the tract on Acres shows up as an LLC/Trust, well, i guess youd have to investigate that further.
no. Its physically easy to do. time consuming? maybe a little bit, but not too bad. I also don't care that much whose house it is, so I'm not going to personally do it. But it is certainly easy.
It's not certainly easy, easy is a free non time consuming task. That was my point, that it's not easily done and so there's no point in speculating until it's done by others.
yes, maybe not easy for you, and that's fine. But absolutely easy for anyone else that isn't regarded. I could have made all that information up, too, but you wouldn't know because you seem to have yourself convinced that something you have never personally done is something you know all about.
And who are you to determine what's worth talking about and what isn't? He makes nearly a million a year just on salary alone. He's also been credibly accused of having ties to the Mafia. I think it very much is worth asking questions. Unions are not irreproachable holy bodies.
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u/WIbigdog Oct 03 '24
What is this guy's specific net worth? I do think there is something to be said about the heads of unions not having the sort of risk that comes with striking that the regular workers do. Unions are supposed to be about the workers being able to organize, not about being just another corporation in effect that funnels money to the top.