Word: unioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington never cared for his father, and James P. Hoffa, the newly elected president of the Teamsters Union, knows Washington will not care for him -- not when Democratic party leaders find out what he plans to do: reopen the campaign-finance scandal, take on the DNC and scrutinize its fund-raising apparatus...
...first act as president-elect was to give the go-ahead for a multimillion-dollar civil-racketeering suit against, among others, the DNC. The suit would primarily target disgraced former Teamsters president Ron Carey and other Teamsters officials for allegedly embezzling nearly $1 million in cash from the union. But it would also cite top Democratic fund-raisers, including Terrence McAuliffe, who was recently appointed chief fund-raiser for Al Gore. A federal probe into Carey?s 1996 election as union president found that he and representatives of the DNC set up an illegal contribution swap scheme in which...
...McAuliffe?s attorney were not returned.) The proposed lawsuit will contend that government monitors failed to do their job overseeing the Carey administration and, "as a result," says a source close to the suit, "more than $20 million of taxpayer money was wasted on one election and the union went bankrupt." If Hoffa is successful, the Teamsters may be in for a windfall. Under racketeering statutes, successful plaintiffs can recover as much as triple the damages...
...also said she hopes to continue the union's work with student groups...
Describing the biggest accomplishment of her tenure, Williams said, "Union members are now involved in the decisions that affect their lives...