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...When Ron Carey won the race for Teamsters president in 1991, he rode to power behind dissidents who had risked their jobs, and their lives, to fight mob control of their locals. But even before a federal overseer barred him from running again--the court had already nullified his re-election in August--Carey the reformer had become Carey the co-opted tyrant. Disaffected Teamsters dissidents have told TIME that Carey not only spurned his allies but also surrounded himself with a cadre of 1960s-era campus radicals with little taste for democracy...
...Indeed, Carey's alienation of former supporters seriously eroded his popularity, thus making the contest for union president close and the need for last-minute funds pressing. Those funds, say authorities, were illegally channeled to Carey. "He was a leader with all the power in the world to clean up the union," says Ted Katsaros, a reformer who suffered beatings at the hands of mobsters in one of New York's most corrupt Teamsters locals. "Instead, we never saw him again." Adds Gene Giacumbo, who was elected a vice president on Carey's reform slate in 1991 but who later...
...barring Carey from running again, federal monitor Kenneth Conboy said the Teamsters boss was a party to illegal schemes to funnel nearly $900,000 of union funds to the 1996 campaign in which he narrowly defeated challenger James P. Hoffa. The explosive ruling followed guilty pleas last September by three Carey aides, including Michael Ansara, a co-founder of the radical Students for a Democratic Society at Harvard in the 1960s, who admitted to helping shift $95,000 of union dues into Carey's coffers. Carey denies knowing about the illegal acts and vows to fight the disqualification ruling...
...Richard Trumka, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, and Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, one of the fastest growing U.S. unions. Conboy cited evidence that Trumka, once the reform leader of the United Mine Workers, and McEntee helped get cash to Carey. The two leaders and Carey are reportedly targets of a federal grand jury in New York City that is investigating the Teamsters election. Both Trumka and McEntee have denied any wrongdoing...
...this might seem to give Hoffa a walkover in the new election, for which no date has been scheduled. But no sooner had Conboy disqualified Carey than another court-appointed overseer disclosed plans to investigate charges that Hoffa's campaign improperly raised $1.8 million during last year's election. The monitor asked for a 45-day delay in the election. The Hoffa camp denies the report's finding...