Breaking the Devil's Pact: The Battle to Free the Teamsters from the Mob - Rilegato

Jacobs, James B.; Cooperman, Kerry T.

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ISBN 10: 0814743080 ISBN 13: 9780814743089

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 2011

Riassunto

In 1988, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani brought a massive civil racketeering suit against the leadership of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), at the time possibly the most corrupt union in the world. The lawsuit charged that the mafia had operated the IBT as a racketeering enterprise for decades, systematically violating the rights of members and furthering the interests of organized crime. On the eve of trial, the parties settled the case, and twenty years later, the trustees are still on the job. 

Breaking the Devil’s Pact is an in-depth study of the U.S. v. IBT, beginning with Giuliani’s lawsuit and the politics surrounding it, and continuing with an incisive analysis of the controversial nature of the ongoing trusteeship. James B. Jacobs and Kerry T. Cooperman address the larger question of the limits of legal reform in the American labor movement and the appropriate level of government involvement.

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James B. Jacobs, legal scholar and sociologist, is Warren E. Burger Professor of Law and Director, Center for Research in Crime and Justice, NYU School of Law. Among his books are Mobsters, Unions & Fed: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement, Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime, Busting the Mob: United States v. Cosa Nostra, and Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry, all published by NYU Press.

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In 1988, despite powerful Congressional opposition, U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani brought a massive civil racketeering (RICO) suit against the leaders of the behemoth International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and more than two dozen Cosa Nostra (LCN) leaders. Intending to land a fatal blow to the mafia, Giuliani asserted that the union and organized-crime defendants had formed a devil's pact. He charged the IBT leaders with allowing their organized-crime cronies to use the union as a profit center in exchange for the mobsters' political support and a share of the spoils of corruption. On the eve of what would have been one of the most explosive trials in organized- crime and labor history, the Department of Justice and the Teamsters settled. Three court-appointed officers were tasked with purging LCN influence from the IBT by investigating organized crime infiltration, bringing disciplinary charges, and supervising a new and unprecedented nationwide election process for international officers. When the insurgent Ron Carey won the 1991 presidential election, the government's reform strategy was heralded as an extraordinary success. But, like a Greek tragedy, the court officers expelled Carey from the union in 1997 on account of a campaign-finance money-laundering scheme that implicated, among many others, the National Democratic Party and the AFL-CIO. Since Carey's downfall, the Teamsters have been politically dominated by James P. Hoffa, son of the notorious Jimmy Hoffa. Breaking the Devil's Pact traces the fascinating history of U.S. v. IBT, beginning with Giuliani's controversial lawsuit and continuing with in-depth analysis of the ups and downs of an unprecedented remedial effort involving the Department of Justice, the federal courts, the court-appointed officers (including former FBI and CIA director William Webster and former U.S. attorney general Benjamin Civiletti), and the IBT itself. Now more than 22 years old and spanning over 5 election cycles, U.S. v.

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• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0814743080
• ISBN 13: 9780814743089
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 310