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...humble family man, a truck driver who married the girl next door and "still lives in the same small house that he and his wife moved into 30 years ago." His $45,000 salary, the literature insisted, was "less than the salary of the Chef who works at the Teamster headquarters ((for Carey's predecessors))." Press accounts trumpeted similar blue collar images: the beat-up car, the suits off the rack from Macy's, the five kids to support, the vacations spent in his Queens backyard...
After his election, Carey announced that "this is no longer a union that's going to be run by millionaires." He promised to sell the perks of power -- the Teamster jets, the limousine, the condominium in Puerto Rico. However, Carey had personally begun accumulating hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property, most of it in sunny vacation spots. Weeks after taking office in 1992, Carey bought some posh beachfront property on Lower Matecumbe Key, Florida, for $340,000. The purchase, which included a $125,000 down payment, is under investigation by the Independent Review Board, the three- member federally...
Then there is Local 295, which handles freight at New York City's airports. Carey tried to deliver this corrupt local into the control of an old Teamster hand named William Genoese, but Lacey vetoed Carey's choice. The Lucchese family, it was later revealed, had also been trying to place Genoese in a key union post...
...Teamster membership
LABOR: The Teflon Teamster...