Word: carey
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...order to dispel Mob rumors swirling around Carey, the Teamsters' Independent Review Board ( IRB), the three-member federally created agency that polices the union, released a statement in September maintaining it "has absolutely no credible evidence supporting any allegations" of Mob ties to Carey. But when reached by TIME last week and confronted with the FBI report, IRB member Frederick Lacey, a former federal judge, sounded less absolute. "The matter is still open," he said uncomfortably. "We are awaiting further evidence relating to these allegations." The problem, insiders say, is that the FBI has refused to make D'Arco available...
...Teamsters, Carey's alleged Mob connections are yet another painful indicator that corruption in the union may simply be too vast for any real reform. Four of the Teamsters' past eight presidents were indicted on criminal charges; three of them went to prison. In 1989 the union settled a racketeering suit in which the feds accused its leadership of forging a "devil's pact" with the Mafia. To avoid a government-imposed trusteeship, the Teamsters agreed to allow the members to freely elect their president. Since then, Lacey and his team have driven out more than 150 misbehavers...
Along the way, however, the brotherhood has also been losing rank-and-file members -- 500,000 since the mid-1970s, 68,000 of those just since Carey's election. This membership dive, along with mismanagement by Carey's plundering predecessors, has wrecked the union's finances. The International lost $58 million in 1992. The union is still slow to reveal its books to its own executive board -- nearly six months passed before this year's first-quarter figures were available -- but an unaudited draft shows a $25 million bath for the first half of 1993. The total net worth...
...credit, Carey has instituted 21 trusteeships in tainted locals. But in too many cases, his hand was forced. In December 1991, Lacey charged that the top officers of construction Local 282 were Mob linked, but Carey waited seven months to call in a trustee. Meanwhile, the officers handpicked their successors before resigning. In March, Carey pronounced the new leadership of 282 clean and lifted the trusteeship. But four months later, both the new and old officers were indicted for turning their local into a Mafia "candy store," in the words of one FBI official...
...Carey says there was no way he could have known that these new guys in 282 were dirty, but I could have told him that," says Susan Jennik, head of the Association for Union Democracy, a reform group that has monitored the Teamsters since 1969. "It's hard to believe he could be so naive. Local 282 is in his backyard. He grew up around these people...