Opinion ID: 768200
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Heading: LL&K's Monthly Bribes to TPBA Officers

Text: 23 In 1990, at the end of the first year of Reale's presidency, the TPBA retained LL&K for $40,000 annually to replace A&G as legal counsel to a number of health and welfare benefit funds. By February 1991, Hartman was earning approximately $14,000 a month in labor relation and consulting fees from the TPBA. Thereafter, Hartman informed the TPBA that he would no longer perform labor negotiation services and requested that the TPBA retain LL&K to replace him. Reale, Zichettello, and Montoro agreed, and the TPBA began paying LL&K the monthly fees that Hartman had been receiving. Several months later, Reale and Hartman advised Montoro that the labor consulting fees were going to be increased by approximately $3,000 dollars a month. Reale assured Montoro that there would be something in it for us. Hartman said that the TPBA Officers would personally receive $1,800 each month from LL&K and that Kramer would deliver the money. When Hartman left, Reale and Montoro agreed that the bribe would be split evenly among themselves and Zichettello. Montoro and Kramer subsequently arranged a monthly meeting so that Montoro could give Kramer the monthly retainer check in return for an envelope of cash containing $1,800. This arrangement continued until approximately March 1993.