Crowell & Moring partner Glen G. McGorty has been appointed as independent monitor to oversee the operations of the New York City District Council of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, and it’s Benefit Funds.

On January 1, 2015, McGorty began his term as independent monitor, appointed by federal Judge Richard M. Berman.

McGorty’s appointment is the product of an agreement between federal prosecutors, the District Council and the Benefit Funds.

The agreement stems from the government’s long-term monitoring of the District Council. The monitoring stems from a 1990 lawsuit against the union under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act..

In 1994, the government entered into a consent decree with the Union that, among other things, permanently barred union members and officers from committing acts of racketeering, and named former federal Judge Kenneth Conboy as a court-appointed officer to monitor the Union.

Judge Conboy’s tenure was followed by Walter Mack, William Callahan, and from 2009 through the December 31, 2014, Dennis Walsh.

From June 3, 2010, through the present, Walsh assisted the District Council in implementing numerous reforms and, as determined by Judge Berman, the union has made significant progress in advancing the anti-corruption objectives.

Despite these strides, the government and the District Council agree that the appointment of an independent monitor was advisable to afford the District Council the opportunity to demonstrate that it can sustain the reform measures that have been implemented and operate free from the influence of racketeering and corruption.

Before joining Crowell & Moring, McGorty served almost fifteen years as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.