JERSEY CITY AND BEYOND — United States Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced Monday that Thomas Giblin, 37, of Jersey City, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Dennis M. Cavanaugh to receiving kickbacks and committing embezzlement. Fishman said beginning in November 2004, Giblin, while employed as Administrator of the Local 68 Education Fund, hired an audio-visual company to design and install electronic audio and visual
systems at the Education Fund’s premises in West Caldwell.
In exchange for the Education Fund paying the audio-visual company $315,000 for their services, Giblin received free and discounted audio-visual materials and components totaling $10,000 in August 2005 that were installed in his Jersey City condominium by the audio-visual company free of charge, the prosecutors said.
Giblin also removed a couch from the Education Fund office, costing approximately $1,329, and placed it in his Jersey City condominium, the prosecutors said
Giblin faces a maximum term of imprisonment of three years and $250,000 fine for the kickbacks and five years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine for removal of the couch.
Giblin is scheduled to be sentenced on November 29. – RK