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Criticism of Lacey's judgment has been building since last July, when he issued a 79-page report exonerating Teamsters boss Ron Carey, a self-styled reformer, from allegations that he is linked to organized crime. Lacey conducted his probe as the leader of the Independent Review Board, the three-member federally created agency that polices the union. While the board's report criticized Carey for some dishonesty in matters relating to his real estate dealings, it accepted his denials regarding the Mob. Critics in the union described Lacey 's report as a whitewash, while Carey claimed...
...TIME has obtained a private letter written by Lacey in April 1994, amid his investigation of Carey, that raises questions about his impartiality. The letter was a warning to Thomas Puccio, one of two court-appointed trustees of a Teamsters local (the other: Michael Moroney, a labor-racketeering investigator) who were threatening to go public with materials allegedly linking Carey to a former Mafia boss. During a conversation in March 1994, Lacey reminded Puccio in the letter, "I told you that I thought you and Mr. Moroney ought to have in mind what would happen if you brought Carey down...
Justice Department officials privately applauded Carey's climb to the Teamsters helm, viewing him as the union's best chance for reform and publicly promoting him as almost squeaky clean. Four of the union's past eight presidents had been indicted on criminal charges; three of them went to prison. In 1989 the union finally settled an epic racketeering suit in which the feds accused its leadership of forging a "devil's pact" with the Mafia. Under the settlement, the Teamsters agreed to allow the members to elect their president freely. Since then, Lacey and his team have booted...
...Carey to be tied to the Mob would be a huge defeat for the government's program to rehabilitate the union. The man who has made that allegation to the FBI is Alfonso D'Arco, a former acting boss of the Lucchese crime family who is today the government's best and most protected Mafia witness. Many leading mobsters have gone to prison on his word. As for D'Arco's general credibility, Donald North, one of the FBI's chief organized-crime investigators, told New York magazine in january that "in thousands of hours of conversation, we have never...
Moroney, the frustrated union trustee, resigned his investigative post last October; one month later, he wrote a six-page letter accusing Charles Carberry , Lacey 's chief investigator, of reaching a "preordained" conclusion regarding Carey's alleged Mobties. "We both know that the FBI is absolutely convinced that D'Arco has told the truth," wrote Moroney. "As I told you some time ago, I spent two days alone interviewing Darco in April 1993 and there is no doubt in my mind that he was telling the truth about Carey." Last week Moroney told TIME, "An appropriate investigation would bear [D'Arco...