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...benefiting most from this soft cascade is Republican-nominee-to-be Bob Dole. His campaign has reached the legal limit of what it can raise itself before the convention, and the Democratic Party is doing its best to take advantage of this. Last week it filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission charging Dole's operation with violations of spending restrictions. But as Dole's operatives know, there is no need to break any laws to lubricate a cash-dry campaign. There is always soft money...
Both documents were dated Nov. 4, 1994. One was a four-line, handwritten note from President Clinton to Arthur Coia, signed "Bill" and thanking Coia for the gift of a handcrafted golf club ("It's a work of art!"). The second was a draft 212-page complaint from the Justice Department, previewing a lawsuit to place the Laborers' International Union of North America under federal control and oust Coia as general president, on grounds that he had knowingly let mobsters run the 750,000-member union...
...Department persuaded the union to sign a consent decree acknowledging Mob influence and conceding to court-appointed officers. But the department agreed to hold off filing the decree as long as the union makes progress cleaning itself up. The deal left Coia on the job even though the original complaint described him as "associated with and controlled and influenced by organized-crime figures...
...field nonetheless contend that it is another case of the cleanup team's doing the barest minimum necessary to keep the feds at bay. The Buffalo local, they say, is such a well-known Cosa Nostra fortress--and so prominently featured in the Justice Department's original complaint--that union investigators had to act. Also, some of the ousted officials took with them large life-insurance policies with immediate cash value. Those officials also dropped a lawsuit against the international union that could have forced Coia to testify about an embarrassing matter. In 1994, according to the original Justice complaint...
...Robert, I'm not quite finished. If you took me in your arms and carried me to your truck and forced me to go with you, I wouldn't murmur a complaint. You could do the same thing just by talking to me. But I don't think you will. You're too sensitive, too aware of my feelings, for that. And I have feelings of responsibility here. Yes, it's boring in its way. My life, that is." --The Bridges of Madison County...