N.Y. Newspaper Deliverers’ Union Leader Douglas LaChance Dies at 69

Posted: 9/27/2011  |  By: Douglas Martin | The New York Times

New York--Douglas LaChance, who led the powerful union that represented New York City newspaper deliverers in the 1980s and ’90s and whose crafty, two-fisted approach led to a prison term on racketeering and extortion charges, died on Wednesday, in Long Beach, N.Y. He was 69.