Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Local 272 of the Teamsters in New York City was a classic case of how the Mob infiltrated the Brotherhood. This local controls the labor at roughly 85% of the city's 900 parking facilities and comprises 4,600 workers, most of them black or Hispanic. After a 20-year reign as the group's president, Cirino (Speed) Salerno was ousted last September by the Teamsters' court-appointed administrator. Salerno, 77, who has been convicted of extortion in the past, is not a "made" Mafia member. But he allegedly diverted union money to his brother Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno...
...garage business was a bonanza for the wise guys. The garage owners allegedly made payoffs to the Mob in exchange for being allowed to cheat employees out of as much as $70 million in lost wages and benefits. Cirino Salerno made weekly deliveries of cash skimmed from the local to his brother's East Harlem headquarters, according to a former top Genovese soldier, Vincent (Fish) Cafaro. In a 1987 affidavit, Cafaro, now a government witness, claimed that "Speed" had the garage industry "locked up through 'sweetheart contracts' with the owners . . . If someone buys or builds a garage or parking...
...yakuza is Japan's version of the Mafia, a shadowy mob brotherhood that often operates behind a shield of what appears to be legitimate business fronts. According to Japanese press reports, one such business is West Tsusho, a Tokyo-based real estate firm that has bought into two American companies with the help of an unusually well-placed U.S. middleman: Prescott Bush Jr., 68, the President's elder brother...
...deal, Bush reportedly received a finder's fee of $250,000 as well as the promise of $250,000 a year for three years in consulting fees. As West Tsusho's criminal connections only recently came to light, Bush is unlikely to have known he was fronting for the mob...
...workers at Disney World who walk around wearing Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck or Pluto costumes are card-carrying members of the International Brotherhood. More important, the union is at last cleaning up its act, thanks to the prodding of court-appointed officers who have forced dozens of Mob-connected officials out of the union...