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<blockquote data-quote="tieguy" data-source="post: 400744" data-attributes="member: 1912"><p><span style="color: blue">Technically you're probably correct </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._McCarthy" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._McCarthy</a></span></p><p></p><p>"He twice faced charges that he had improperly awarded a printing contract to a printing house owned by his son-in-law, once in February 1991 and again in June 1991. Each time, the union's executive board agreed to put off a vote, and McCarthy retained his office."</p><p> </p><p>Its also believed McCarthy agreed to federal oversight of the union to save his own behind.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,973244-2,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,973244-2,00.html</a></p><p> </p><p>"Old-school Teamsters sometimes grumble that McCarthy sold them out to the feds to save his own skin. Maybe so, but he and his cohort have nonetheless spent $12 million of the union's money to litigate the settlement at each step -- even to the point of preventing a court-appointed elections officer from getting office space in their Washington headquarters."</p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue">So you have me on semantics. It would however be nice to see one retire that is squeaky clean. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tieguy, post: 400744, member: 1912"] [COLOR=blue]Technically you're probably correct [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._McCarthy[/URL][/COLOR] "He twice faced charges that he had improperly awarded a printing contract to a printing house owned by his son-in-law, once in February 1991 and again in June 1991. Each time, the union's executive board agreed to put off a vote, and McCarthy retained his office." Its also believed McCarthy agreed to federal oversight of the union to save his own behind. [URL]http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,973244-2,00.html[/URL] "Old-school Teamsters sometimes grumble that McCarthy sold them out to the feds to save his own skin. Maybe so, but he and his cohort have nonetheless spent $12 million of the union's money to litigate the settlement at each step -- even to the point of preventing a court-appointed elections officer from getting office space in their Washington headquarters." [COLOR=blue]So you have me on semantics. It would however be nice to see one retire that is squeaky clean. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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