California wealth tax proponent threatened labor officials, law firm’s report finds

The labor leader championing California’s wealth tax threatened other union officials as he sought to build support for the measure and previously assaulted a labor official, according to an independent investigation. A law firm’s probe into allegations against SEIU-UHW leader Dave Regan, obtained by POLITICO, substantiated claims made in a February complaint that Regan sought to intimidate other labor leaders into endorsing the proposed wealth tax, which has sharply divided California’s organized labor movement — and it found that a labor leader “reasonably” felt threatened because of Regan’s history of verbally and physically intimidating people. The law firm did not...