Teamsters head pleads guilty in Top Chef case
Mark Harrington walked out of the Moakley Courthouse following his arraignment last year.
The former head of a local Teamsters union reluctantly pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal attempted extortion charge for using strong-arm tactics against a TV production crew in a case with ties to City Hall.
Mark Harrington, 62, is one of five Teamsters members accused of roughing up production crew members taping the Top Chef television show at Steel & Rye restaurant in Milton in June 2014. They were charged with attempted extortion for allegedly using strong-arm tactics to extort jobs from the television show under the threat of disrupting filming. Prosecutors said the threats put the show’s producers in “fear of economic harm.”
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