Two Ex-Teamsters Bosses Convicted of Extorting Hospitals And Non Profits

Secretary/Treasurer of Teamsters Local Union No. 82 John Perry.

Photo by: John Wilcox (File)

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Two ex-Teamsters union bigs were convicted of extorting Hub hospitals and local nonprofits by threatening protests if they did not give into their demands.
But a third co-defendant finished the 33-day racketeering trial in U.S. District Court in Boston with a mistrial and a fourth was acquitted.
Convicted in the RICO case were ex-Teamsters Local 82 secretary John Perry, 62, of Woburn, and his enforcer, Joseph “Jo Jo” Burhoe, 46, of Braintree.
Targets of “Perry’s Crew,” as federal prosecutors called the Teamsters gang, included Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and the United States Green Building Council, U.S. Attorney’s office said in a statement. Local 82 was shut down by the national Teamsters union in 2011 and folded into Local 25 in Charlestown.
Perry and Burhoe were convicted of threatening to picket businesses and disrupt events just hours before they were scheduled to start. “Since 2007 the defendants engaged in illegal activities in order to generate money for themselves, their friends and family members,” federal prosecutors said.

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Two Teamsters found guilty of extorting local hospitals
Two found guilty of extorting local hospitals
Thursday, November 20, 2014
By: O’Ryan Johnson
Boston Herald