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...dates back to the era of tail fins and Hula-Hoops. Finally, after 30 years of frustration, the Justice Department is preparing a new offensive in its continuing struggle to cleanse mob stains from the 2 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Federal officials confirmed last week that the Government plans to file a path-breaking civil suit asking the courts to replace the national leadership of the Teamsters with a federal trustee. The takeover bid would not affect the upcoming criminal trial of Teamster President Jackie Presser on federal racketeering charges...
...Rafael Hernandez Colon has said tense labor-management relations may have been a motive for the fire, but he has not blamed the Teamsters union--which had planned a strike for midnight New Year's Eve--or hotel management or non-Teamster employees...
...Force in Cleveland. On their own time, some 60 of his Ohio colleagues had gathered outside a federal courthouse in Washington to cheer him as Friedrick was arraigned on five counts of lying to the Justice Department and the FBI. The 13-year bureau veteran is accused of protecting Teamster President Jackie Presser from indictment in a payroll-padding scheme. "We were there to show him we still support him in this time of need," said Special Agent Daniel Gordon. Gordon has organized the Committee in Support of Robert Friedrick to raise funds for his co-worker, who faces...
...agent, Robert Friedrick, is accused of falsely stating that the FBI had authorized Presser to commit the crimes he is now charged with: embezzling union money as salaries for people holding no-show "ghost" jobs in Cleveland's Teamster Local 507. While the indictment of an FBI man was an embarrassment to the agency, the action against Presser had no immediate effect on him or his union...
...Presser, 59, returned from Las Vegas to Cleveland for arraignment on Saturday, he interrupted a honeymoon that began with his fifth marriage on May 4 (to ex-Local 507 Secretary Cindy Jarabek, 38). He was anticipating near certain re-election to a five-year term as president by the Teamsters International convention that opens in Las Vegas on Monday. Presser is the fourth of the past five Teamster chiefs to be indicted either while in office or shortly thereafter...