U.S. Launches Probe Into Firefighters Union Leaders

“Federal authorities have launched a criminal investigation into pension distributions made to two top executives of the International Association of Fire Fighters while they were still employed by the union,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

The union’s president, Harold Schaitberger, is a longtime confidant of presidential candidate Joe Biden who told union officials in June: “We will have a key to the back door of the White House if Biden wins.”