Word: giacumbo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 lost faith: "His election was supposed to bring democracy to the Teamsters, but no one who was elected with him was allowed a voice in the union...
...appeal to a scandal-weary membership galvanized thousands of union volunteers to donate money, some of it borrowed, to Carey's $500,000 campaign. He put up only $6,000 of his own cash. "He moaned and cried about needing money to pay off his campaign debts," recalls Gene Giacumbo, a member of Carey's executive board. "And everybody was tapped...
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