Extortion or ‘complete and utter nonsense?’ Lawyers offer conflicting accounts as John Dougherty’s latest federal trial begins
“He starts choking him. He slaps him,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Grenell in his opening statement to the jury of six men and six women charged with rendering a verdict in the case. “He throws him over the table as he’s screaming at him.” “The question here is, ‘Did threaten anyone?’” Greg Pagano, attorney for the ex-union chief, told jurors. “And the answer is he did not.”
Chris Hoeger and James Gorman, longtime Local 98 electricians who worked alongside Fiocca on the Live! Casino construction, detailed Fiocca’s troubled history at the job site in the months leading up to the attack. “He’s kind of frustrating to be honest,” Gorman texted his boss, after finding himself working alone several times because Fiocca was nowhere to be found.
But even before that, Gorman testified, he could tell trouble was brewing as Fiocca’s bosses began docking his pay over his repeated absences. Though neither Gorman nor Hoeger witnessed the altercation inside a trailer on the construction site firsthand, Hoeger said he spoke to Gibson shortly after, entering the trailer in the moments after Fiocca left.
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