Word: ghosts
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Also looking to see action on Soldiers Field is a trio of infielders--Richard Riley from Roxbury Latin, Eric Magrisi from Holy Ghost Preparatory School in Pennsylvania, and Casey Cobb from Orono...
...eleven months, Allen Friedman has been in a Fort Worth federal prison, serving a three-year sentence for embezzling $165,000 as a nonworking "ghost employee" of Teamsters Union Local 507 in Cleveland, and nursing a powerful grievance. He was only "the fall guy," Friedman protested. The real culprit, he said, was Local 507's secretary-treasurer, Jackie Presser, who happens to be Friedman's nephew as well as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the nation's largest labor union, with 2 million members...
...Presser even if it means springing Uncle Allen. "Nobody's tried to cover this up," he told the Washington Post. "If anything, the prosecution has shown that they have faced up to their responsibilities to the accused and the court." Earlier this summer, Presser himself escaped indictment on the ghost-employee case when Justice officials ruled that there was insufficient evidence to convict him. They also cited Presser's role as an informant...
Matters grew even more complicated last week when officials close to the investigation claimed that the FBI had authorized Presser's payments to Friedman and several other ghost employees at Local 507. Washington sources said the FBI reasoned that the phantom payoffs would make it easier for Presser to gather information on Cleveland's organized crime groups. Questions lingered over how much the FBI had told Justice about Presser's secret dealings. The bureau's Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating agents' handling of the affair...
However handsomely Presser paid his ghost employees, the ample (300 lb.) Jackie drew a far fatter salary. An annual review of the union's books by the dissident Teamsters for a Democratic Union revealed that Presser paid himself $755,474 last year. That is roughly $185,000 more than the 1984 salary of Chrysler Chief Lee Iacocca, and about ten times the salary of Owen Bieber, head of the United Auto Workers. The T.D.U. says 74 other Teamsters officials made more than $100,000 last year...