Breaking the devil's pact [electronic resource] : the battle to free the Teamsters from the mob / James B. Jacobs and Kerry T. Cooperman.
2011
KF228.U5 J327 2011eb
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Breaking the devil's pact [electronic resource] : the battle to free the Teamsters from the mob / James B. Jacobs and Kerry T. Cooperman.
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9780814743669 (electronic book)
9780814743089
9780814743089
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New York : New York University Press, c2011.
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English
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1 online resource (xxv, 310 p.) : ill.
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KF228.U5 J327 2011eb
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345.73/0267
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"In 1988, despite powerful Congressional opposition, U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani brought a massive civil racketeering (RICO) suit against the leaders of the behemoth International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and more than two dozen Cosa Nostra (LCN) leaders. Intending to land a fatal blow to the mafia, Giuliani asserted that the union and organized-crime defendants had formed a devil's pact. He charged the IBT leaders with allowing their organized-crime cronies to use the union as a profit center in exchange for the mobsters' political support and a share of the spoils of corruption. On the eve of what would have been one of the most explosive trials in organized-crime and labor history, the Department of Justice and the Teamsters settled. Breaking the Devil's Pact traces the fascinating history of U.S. v. IBT, beginning with Giuliani's controversial lawsuit and continuing with in-depth analysis of the ups and downs of an unprecedented remedial effort involving the Department of Justice, the federal courts, the court-appointed officers (including former FBI and CIA director William Webster and former U.S. attorney general Benjamin Civiletti), and the IBT itself. Now more than 22 years old and spanning over 5 election cycles, U.S. v. IBT is the most important labor case in the last half century, one of the most significant organized crime cases of all time, and one of the most ambitious judicial organizational reform efforts in U.S. history. Breaking the Devil's Pact is a penetrating examination of the potential and limits of court-supervised organizational reform in the context of systemic corruption and racketeering"-- Provided by publisher.
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Table of 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 emergence 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.
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 emergence 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.