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Breaking the devil's pact : the battle to free the Teamsters from the mob / James B. Jacobs and Kerry T. Cooperman.
- Title
- Breaking the devil's pact : the battle to free the Teamsters from the mob / James B. Jacobs and Kerry T. Cooperman.
- Author
- Jacobs, James B.
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, c2011.
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- Additional Authors
- Cooperman, Kerry T.
- Description
- xxv, 310 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In 1988, despite powerful Congressional opposition, U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani brought a civil racketeering (RICO) lawsuit against the leaders of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and more than two dozen Cosa Nostra (LCN) leaders. Giuliani charged that the IBT leaders allowed their organized-crime cronies to loot the union in exchange for the mobsters' political support and a share of the spoils. Dissident union voices were silenced by blacklisting and violence. According to the settlement signed on the eve of the trial, the federal district court would appoint three court officers to commandeer the union's disciplinary machinery and conduct nationwide secret-ballot elections for international officers. The court supervision has spanned 22 years and 6 election cycles. Several hundred Teamsters officials have been expelled or forced to resign or retire from the union for associating with organized-crime figures and other disciplinary rule violations. Cosa Nostra has been deprived of a vitally important power base. Teamsters elections are the most democratic elections in the union movement. U.S. v. IBT can justly be called the most important labor case in the last half century and one of the most significant organized crime cases of all time."--
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books.
- Subject
- Giuliani, Rudolph W
- United States. Department of Justice > Trials, litigation, etc
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters > Trials, litigation, etc
- Mafia trials > United States
- Racketeering > United States > History
- Labor unions > History. > United States
- Organized crime investigation > United States > History
- LAW / Criminal Law / General
- LAW / General
- Genre/Form
- Trial and arbitral proceedings.
- History.
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-291) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introducing the litigants and the judge -- The civil RICO complaint and settlement -- IBT resistance and Judge Edelstein's resolve: July 1989 - September 1992 -- Establishing new disciplinary machinery: July 1989 - September 1992 -- An insurgent's triumph: the IBT's 1991 election -- General President Carey and the IRB: 1992 - 1997 -- The 1996 election scandal -- The 1998 rerun election and the emerging dominance of James P. Hoffa -- The 2001 election, the demise of Project RISE, and the IRB's third term -- The 2006 election, the IRB's fourth term and the lead-up to the 2011 election -- Lessons, reflections, and speculations.
- ISBN
- 9780814743089 (hardback)
- 0814743080 (hardback)
- 9780814743669 (ebook)
- 0814743668 (ebook)
- 9780814743676 (ebook)
- 0814743676 (ebook)
- LCCN
- ^^2011026377
- OCLC
- 724667319
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library