He prosecuted bridge contractors under the state's Anti-trust act for bid rigging.
In 1963, Brewer was sentenced to 18 months in state prison for bid rigging.
However, he was found not guilty of the bid rigging charges in 2010.
The two union leaders also engaged in bid rigging and bribery.
Minnesota's attorney general has identified this as bid rigging.
And the column has accused the town government of bid rigging.
The Justice Department said that the board was overcharged by more than $20 million as a result of the bid rigging.
Federal prosecutors did not estimate how much such bid rigging would have cost taxpayers.
It was later discovered that a process of bid rigging had occurred, and a complex trial involving twenty defendants took place.
But few see any advantage in the present political role of organized crime or in bid rigging designed to help one giant firm over another.