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...TIME has obtained a two-year-old FBI debriefing report of Alfonso ("Little Al") D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Lucchese crime family, who has been hiding in the Witness Protection Program since 1991. According to the report (see opposite page), D'Arco revealed that Carey was tied to La Cosa Nostra through the late Joseph ("Joe Shrugs") Trerotola, a legendary Teamster kingmaker who resigned in 1991 at age 82 amid charges he allowed organized crime to flourish in the union...
Moreover, according to the confidential report, D'Arco stated that whenever he initiated illegal pickets or strikes, he would call Carey to advise him, and that "Carey would honor the strike without even investigating the nature, purpose or legitimacy of the strike." According to investigators, this suggests that Carey's own Teamster Local 804, which he still controls, and which represents United Parcel Service workers in the New York City area, declined to deliver packages to employers who were under attack by the Lucchese family -- presumably for failing to make payoffs...
Carey vehemently denies the allegations. He says he has never had close links to Trerotola nor has he ever met or spoken with D'Arco. "I don't even know who D'Arco is," explodes Carey. "I've had no association with those folks." Echoes Teamster spokesman Matt Witt: "D'Arco -- if he said those things -- would have a motive, because a weakened Carey is good for ((D'Arco's)) lifelong Mob associates, and by smearing Carey he makes himself more valuable to some elements in the government ((who dislike Carey...
Press and Politics: Who's Using Whom? Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst, National Public Radio. ARCO Forum...
More than 700 people crowded into the ARCO Forum at the Kennedy School of Government to watch the show "Larry King Live," according to Forum Director Heather P. Campion...