Can it be true!?  The LA Times in a special investigation has uncovered serious problems with the SEIU local. 

The investigation found:

California's largest union local and a related charity have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to firms owned by the wife and mother-in-law of the labor organization's president, documents and interviews show.

The Los Angeles-based union, which represents low-wage caregivers, also spent nearly $300,000 last year on a Four Seasons Resorts golf tournament, a Beverly Hills cigar club, restaurants such as Morton's steakhouse and a consulting contract with the William Morris Agency, the Hollywood talent shop, records show.

In addition, the union paid six figures to a video firm whose principals include a former union employee. And a now-defunct minor league basketball team coached by the president's brother-in-law received $16,000 for what the union described as public relations, according to the union's U.S. Labor Department filings and interviews.

The head of the union's response?  "he and his union have done nothing wrong. "Every expenditure has been in the context of fighting poverty," he said."

Well, yeah, we all know how Morton's steaks, cigars, and golf fight poverty. In fact I think I'll go fight 18 holes of poverty tomorrow!