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COBA Dissidents Push For Meeting to Vote On Evicting Board

By MARK TOOR
Posted 8/22/16

The Correction Officers Benevolent Association held a general membership meeting Aug. 17 at which dissidents had hoped to oust the executive board because of its connections with Norman Sea­brook, the former president who is under indictment on charges of taking a bribe in exchange for investing union monies in a hedge fund.

That didn’t happen. But a retired Correction Officer who attended the meeting said the current president, Elias Husamudeen, and the rest of the board members were served with papers calling for an emergency meeting on whether they should be replaced.

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