Word: mobbed
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...communicator with deep knowledge of interfamily operations, D'Arco is viewed by federal agents as the nation's most important Mafia rat since Joseph - Valachi, who provided the first real glimpses into organized crime 30 years ago. D'Arco has appeared on the witness stand in virtually every major Mob trial of this decade. If he is lying about Carey, his credibility as a witness is badly damaged. And if D'Arco is telling the truth, the credibility of the government is in question for sitting on hot information that was gleaned just weeks before Carey took office...
...order to dispel Mob rumors swirling around Carey, the Teamsters' Independent Review Board ( IRB), the three-member federally created agency that polices the union, released a statement in September maintaining it "has absolutely no credible evidence supporting any allegations" of Mob ties to Carey. But when reached by TIME last week and confronted with the FBI report, IRB member Frederick Lacey, a former federal judge, sounded less absolute. "The matter is still open," he said uncomfortably. "We are awaiting further evidence relating to these allegations." The problem, insiders say, is that the FBI has refused to make D'Arco available...
...Teamsters, Carey's alleged Mob connections are yet another painful indicator that corruption in the union may simply be too vast for any real reform. Four of the Teamsters' past eight presidents were indicted on criminal charges; three of them went to prison. In 1989 the union settled a racketeering suit in which the feds accused its leadership of forging a "devil's pact" with the Mafia. To avoid a government-imposed trusteeship, the Teamsters agreed to allow the members to freely elect their president. Since then, Lacey and his team have driven out more than 150 misbehavers...
...credit, Carey has instituted 21 trusteeships in tainted locals. But in too many cases, his hand was forced. In December 1991, Lacey charged that the top officers of construction Local 282 were Mob linked, but Carey waited seven months to call in a trustee. Meanwhile, the officers handpicked their successors before resigning. In March, Carey pronounced the new leadership of 282 clean and lifted the trusteeship. But four months later, both the new and old officers were indicted for turning their local into a Mafia "candy store," in the words of one FBI official...
Today 295 is run by two court-appointed trustees, including Michael Moroney, a labor-racketeering investigator since the 1970s. Even so, Carey earlier this year took a detour around the Teamsters' constitution by intervening in a dispute against Local 295 on behalf of its Mobbed-up sister Local 851. The Lucchese clan has long dominated 851, as Moroney reminded Carey in a stinging letter last February. Yet Carey told the Detroit News in June he had no knowledge of Mob influence at 851. Two months later, the local's leaders were indicted for Mafia-linked extortion...