Ex-Labor Leader, Guilty of Racketeering, Recites a 45-Minute Catalog of Crimes.

The former head of the nation's biggest municipal labor council painstakingly detailed years of thievery from his own union and the state on Friday as he pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in federal court in Manhattan. Standing and facing the judge as he spoke, the defendant, Brian M. McLaughlin, once a seven-term assemblyman from Queens and the leader of a million workers as president of the New York City Central Labor Council, delivered his 45-minute catalog of wrongs in a tone that at times seemed blase and at other times abjectly cooperative. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]