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...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 out more than 200 union members on a wide range of corruption charges...
...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 caught him in a contradiction." Lacey concluded that D'Arco, who never met Carey, relied on false statements of two fellow mobsters who said Carey was part of the gang...
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...
This is not the first time critics have accused Lacey of a whitewash. Appointed as the Bush Administration's investigator into the Iraqgate scandal, Lacey declared that the government's handling of the case was "virtually perfect." That brought charges of "patsy" and worse, since many critics felt Lacey should have called for an independent prosecutor. Lacey and his staff have labeled their Teamsters report "extensive," but there were numerous leads unpursued and witnesses not interviewed. For example, Ron Carey's brother Carlisle was not questioned; in 1972 he married the widow of an alleged associate of the Colombo family...
Several members of Congress have taken notice. In late April Senator Jesse Helms wrote to Attorney General Janet Reno asking for an investigation into whether Lacey 's team is keeping the Mob out of the Teamsters. Aides from Senator Orrin Hatch's Judiciary Committee are gathering documents and considering hearings. if such an examination indicates Carey is clean, it would finally put to rest the speculation that he is a federal informant along the lines of the late Teamsters leader Jackie Presser...