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CWA rep diverted over $383,000 of union funds to a company he owned, plundering traffic cop local

Nearly $1M in suspicious payments approved by administrator Richard Morrison, audit found

BY HARPER FREEMAN
Posted 9/18/26

88,136 bottles of hand sanitizer, 38,400 bottles of water, 15,000 masks; these are some of the items that an official appointed to fix the finances of Local 1182 of the Communications Workers of America purchased with union funds from a company he owned over a three-year period. 

In total, Richard Morrison funneled more than $383,964 of union funds to his company Island Screenprint Corporation, according to a forensic audit commissioned by the current leadership of Local 1182, a union representing more than 2,000 traffic enforcement agents in New York City.  

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