Word: teamster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal law enforcers turned their attention again to New York City, where most of the Mob's muscle is concentrated. After a five-year investigation, a Brooklyn-based federal organized- crime strike force headed by Edward McDonald brought indictments against the Lucchese family and two officers of Mafia-dominated Teamsters Union locals. The indictment charges that Salvatore Santoro, 69, a Lucchese underboss, other gang members and Teamster officials extorted more than $246,000 from companies handling air freight at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The gangsters allegedly bragged that "we rule the airport," and shook down the trucking firms...
Federal law officials began concentrating on the state in the 1960s when an influx of Teamster money fueled an explosive growth in Las Vegas casinos and heightened the interest of organized crime in gambling. By the 1970s, the FBI, the IRS and the SEC had all launched investigations. The federal-local battle was joined in 1979 when U.S. agents began to track Claiborne...
...controls several Las Vegas casinos. So the gangsters bought the gambling palaces with huge loans from Teamster pension funds, using front men to disguise the Mafia connection. So the crooks reaped vast untaxed profits by skimming millions in cash off the top of the gambling take. So? Hasn't all that been widely known for at least 20 years? It has. But proving it is something else. After years of only sporadic success, the FBI and the Justice Department finally may be shaking the Mob's grip on Las Vegas...
...indictment traces the flow of illegal cash from the Stardust counting and cashier's cages through a number of bagmen for delivery to Mob leaders in the three Midwest cities. FBI agents, for example, claim to have followed Joseph Talerico, a Teamster business agent from Chicago, on monthly trips between Las Vegas and Chicago that sometimes took more than a week as he tried to throw off any trackers. The agents have sworn they watched Talerico pick up packages from a Stardust executive and then meet Aiuppa in Chicago...
...started out as a nationwide protest against higher fuel taxes and highway-user fees for trucks. But within hours, violence eclipsed the issues. Shortly after 11 p.m. on the first day of the Independent Truckers Association (ITA) strike, George Franklin Capps, 34, a Teamster driver, lay slumped in the cab of his 18-wheeler on Route 701, north of tiny Newton Grove, N.C., fatally shot in the neck by a sniper. "The strike is the last thing we talked about," recalled his widow Esmond. "I told him to be careful...