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Eugene Bennett, 65, one of the city's few black Teamster leaders, gained control of the local last autumn after a power struggle with Salerno's distant cousin Frank and son Robert, a retired New York City cop. Bennett has investigated and dismantled the union's skimming arrangement, which operated through most of the 1980s. While employers were obligated to make payments on behalf of employees to the local's health and pension plans, an estimated 1,600 parking-lot attendants were kept out of the union and its funds, Bennett says. The workers, most of them illegal aliens from...
While the Genovese family is New York based, its influence has few geographical boundaries. Smaller crime families from Cleveland to Pittsburgh to New England answer to the Genovese gang in various ways. So did Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa of Detroit, who vanished without a trace in 1975 after pledging to boot his Mob sponsors out of the union. At the time, the family was emerging as a global trader of sorts, in one case allegedly trying to pass $950 million in counterfeit and stolen securities to the Vatican's bank in Rome. In a recent operation, the family shipped counterfeit...
...years the sound of prison doors clanging shut has provided the background music for the transition from one Teamster president to the next. From Dave Beck in 1958 to Jackie Presser in 1986, four of the past six Teamster chiefs have been accused or convicted of felonies, often involving organized crime...
...will try to wrap itself in the grand old flag. Republicans will talk a lot about patriotism and family values and "moral strength". They'll also pander to their special interest groups: fundamentalist christians, Right-to-Lifers and big business. Absent this year will be Ed Meese and the Teamster's union...
...Teamsters are not likely to come under federal control until the 1990s, if then. The only precedent is a Teamster local in New Jersey with close ties to organized crime, which was placed under a federal trusteeship last year. That case took four years to resolve...