In 1884, friends set up a benefit fund to aid him financially.

The benefit funds were created in the 1960's as the product of labor negotiations between the city and its unions.

The local itself and its executive board and three benefit funds were also named.

Union officials, prosecutors said, wasted or stole more than $50 million from the union's benefit fund.

The city has been conducting a regular audit of the benefit funds for the past 18 months.

Their costs are paid by an employer-financed benefit fund.

GM gained higher rates of return on its benefit funds as a part of the solution.

Prosecutors said a trial would have shown that organized crime ran the union and embezzled more than $20,000 a month from the union's benefit funds.

Because the center has not paid the benefit fund, health benefits for 137 union workers at the center are scheduled to expire tomorrow.

It is like a group of robbers trying to set up a mutual benefit fund while they all try to nick each other's wodge.