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After three months of negotiations, however, the Justice 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...
...them from ever resuming membership. Under the Justice-Laborers deal, the expulsions can be contested before a union legal officer, and then another official can be designated to hear appeals. If the expulsions hold up, however, they will accomplish something that has eluded the government for three decades: breaking Mob control of Local...
...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, he tried to consolidate all of upstate New York's training funds--a traditional source of slush--in the Mob-controlled Buffalo local but was blocked...
WHAT'S IN A MOB NAME...
...Davies-Jones are worried that the attention their arcane line of work is attracting may inspire people to take unwise risks. They are aware that the romance of tornado chasing has attracted a dangerous number of amateurs. Sometimes the scientists pull up in their instrumented cars to find a mob of folks with video cameras trained on a twister roaring through a farmer's field...