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...Alfonso ("Little Al") D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Lucchese crime family, who has been hiding in the Witness Protection Program since 1991. According to the report (see opposite page), D'Arco revealed that Carey was tied to La Cosa Nostra through the late Joseph ("Joe Shrugs") Trerotola, a legendary Teamster kingmaker who resigned in 1991 at age 82 amid charges he allowed organized crime to flourish in the union...
Carey vehemently denies the allegations. He says he has never had close links to Trerotola nor has he ever met or spoken with D'Arco. "I don't even know who D'Arco is," explodes Carey. "I've had no association with those folks." Echoes Teamster spokesman Matt Witt: "D'Arco -- if he said those things -- would have a motive, because a weakened Carey is good for ((D'Arco's)) lifelong Mob associates, and by smearing Carey he makes himself more valuable to some elements in the government ((who dislike Carey...
...Trerotola, whom D'Arco links to Carey, was one of the country's most powerful Teamsters before he quit in dis grace. He was also a chairman of the Irish American Teamsters, whose letterhead listed Carey as a "committee member." In 1986 the group celebrated its silver anniversary with a dinner dance honoring union boss Jackie Presser as its "man of the year." Presser subsequently died before he could be tried on embezzlement charges. Carey, through a spokesman, remarkably insists he has "never been on any committee of Irish Teamsters...
Capital or Fair? Residents of towns around the area couldn't quite decide what to think about being neighbors with UNO. Snapped the Greenwich, Conn, assessor: "We're going to be like living in the middle of the World's Fair." One Nick Trerotola, a garage owner, decided, somberly: "It may change my whole career." A Republican politician named Harry J. Hunter looked at it from UNO's point of view. "They'll have to pay too much money . . . Westchester is the wealthiest county in the world. They're not being economic...
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