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...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...
...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...
When Roy L. Williams, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was convicted last week in Chicago's U.S. District Court of conspiring to bribe Senator Howard W. Cannon of Nevada, he was not exactly breaking with Teamster tradition. In 1957 the union's president, David Beck, was found guilty of embezzlement, larceny and income tax evasion. Beck's successor, Jimmy Hoffa, got 13 years in 1964 for jury tampering, fraud and conspiracy. Williams, 67, had thrice before escaped federal conviction. Said Chief Government Prosecutor Douglas R. Roller after the verdict, "The message of the jury...
This latest U.S. Government success against the corruption-riddled Teamsters climaxed a grueling eight-week trial and 17 months of pretrial arguments over the admissibility of 2,000 reels of conversations taped by the FBI. Convicted with Williams were four co-defendants with strong Teamster ties; each faces a maximum of 55 years in prison and a fine of $29,000. All plan to appeal...
...jury found the conspirators guilty on all eleven counts of the indictment, which charged that the defendants had "cut a deal" with Cannon in a face-to-face meeting in Las Vegas on Jan. 10, 1979, and agreed to sell the Senator 5.8 acres of choice Teamster-owned property at a $200,000 discount in exchange for his help in blocking a trucking deregulation bill. In fact, the deal hardly got beyond the talking stage, and Cannon voted for the deregulation bill when the Senate passed...