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<blockquote data-quote="Ironshot" data-source="post: 174158" data-attributes="member: 6881"><p>Brownies, it is time to support your own and move all Union efforts into our hands.. Vote the APWA in and be active members in OUR own Union. </p><p> </p><p>Or you can have more of this...</p><p style="text-align: left"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">TEAMSTERS (IBT)</span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: left"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">New Report Claims Union Is Mob-Free, but May Be a Cover-up </span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Is it the truth or is it a whitewash? That</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">’</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">s the question rank-and-file members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters ought to be asking in the wake of the release of the public portion of a new report prepared for the union, concluding that the IBT is free of organized crime. Union leadership, beginning with President James P. Hoffa, couldn</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">’</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">t be happier. But there</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">’</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">s an unpleasant reality: The report is in conflict with a n earlier one released over a year ago. The extent to which the Teamsters can sway skeptics will determine how soon, if at all, the federal government will lift its more than decade-and-a-half of surveillance.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The new report, released on July 14, was prepared under the supervision of Ed McDonald, a former federal prosecutor and now a partner with the Dechert law firm in New York City. The Teamsters hired McDonald, who previously had led the Organized Crime Strike Force for the Eastern District of New York, as part of its campaign to get a clean bill of health from the federally-approved Independent Review Board (IRB). The IRB had been set up in the aftermath of a 1989 out-of-court settlement of a civil RICO filed by the Justice Department. Union officials are pointing to the findings as vindication of their view that this monitoring no longer is needed. But the study may be hiding as much as it is revealing. </span></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In April 2004, another study, also prepared at the union</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">’</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">s request, was released. The lead person in that effort was Edwin Stier, a prominent Washington, D.C. lawyer and former federal prosecutor who</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">’</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">d led the Justice Department</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">’</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">s successful cleanup of northern New Jersey</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">’</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">s notorious Teamsters Local 560. When Hoffa took over as Teamsters president in 1999, one of the first things he did was hire Stier. Stier and his staff in response put together an internal cleanup proposal called RISE (Respect, Integrity, Strength and Ethics). Some five years and $15 million later, on April 28, 2004, Stier and his entire team of investigators and lawyers resigned, charging that Hoffa had </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">backed away</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> and </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> inexplicably retreated</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> from the union</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">’</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">s commitment to fight corruption. In his resignation letter, Stier stated he had </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">substantial reliable information that organized crime again threatens the union.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> He specifically cited t op Hoffa aide Carlow Scalf and certain Chicago-area Teamster officials as subverting the investigation. Scalf himself has a checkered past; as a Detroit-area Teamster boss, he</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">’</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">d been suspended from the Teamsters for 60 days for allegedly embezzling nearly $70,000. </span></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Stier isn</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">’</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">t about to clam up now that that the McDonald report is out. Calling it a </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">whitewash,</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> he points to the report</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">’</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">s omission of any mention that officials at Chicago</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">’</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">s Local 727 have allegedly bilked millions of dollars from union dental benefit funds. Stier also notes that the new report did not discuss allegations that a foreman in the city</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">’</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">s Hired Truck Program solicited bribes and made as much as $90,000 a year on the side by secretly owning a truck used in the program. Cleaning up a union, as Stier learned first-hand from the Local 560 experience, is an arduous process. The prosecutions and reforms in that instance originally had been estimated at 18 months, but wound up taking 12 years. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Teamsters officials </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">–</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> hardly a surprise </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">–</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> stand by the McDonald report. Pat Szymanski, the union</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">’</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">s general counsel, claims Stier did not accomplish what he was hired to do, and was replaced because he no longer could be trusted to do the job. His replacement, McDonald, used even stronger language. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">We found that everything he (Stier) did was wrong,</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> he said. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">We disagree with his conclusions.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> He added that the Justice Department was dissatisfied with the code of conduct proposed in the Stier report. Stier, in response, strongly disputes the charge. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The board (IRB) had seen the draft,</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> he noted. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">There was never a rejection of this document by the federal government.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">It is far from certain as to which version of the story will gain the upper hand. But it is of more than passing curiosity that the union would move so quickly to discredit a half-decade-long reform effort because it didn</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">’</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">t like the conclusions or the recommendations. Stier believes the Teamsters were desperate to discount the findings, while looking respectable. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">It became clear that Jim Hoffa was beginning to succumb to...pressure in Chicago,</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> he noted. As the union gears up for its fall elections, union rank and file can be sure to hear a whole lot of Hoffa</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">’</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">s side of the story </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">–</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> and not too much of Stier</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">’</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">s. (<em>Chicago Tribune</em>, 7/14). </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ironshot, post: 174158, member: 6881"] Brownies, it is time to support your own and move all Union efforts into our hands.. Vote the APWA in and be active members in OUR own Union. Or you can have more of this... [LEFT][B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4]TEAMSTERS (IBT)[/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [B][SIZE=4][FONT=Arial]New Report Claims Union Is Mob-Free, but May Be a Cover-up [/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/LEFT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Is it the truth or is it a whitewash? That [/SIZE][/FONT][LEFT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]’[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]s the question rank-and-file members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters ought to be asking in the wake of the release of the public portion of a new report prepared for the union, concluding that the IBT is free of organized crime. Union leadership, beginning with President James P. Hoffa, couldn[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]’[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]t be happier. But there[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]’[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]s an unpleasant reality: The report is in conflict with a n earlier one released over a year ago. The extent to which the Teamsters can sway skeptics will determine how soon, if at all, the federal government will lift its more than decade-and-a-half of surveillance.[/SIZE][/FONT] [LEFT][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]The new report, released on July 14, was prepared under the supervision of Ed McDonald, a former federal prosecutor and now a partner with the Dechert law firm in New York City. The Teamsters hired McDonald, who previously had led the Organized Crime Strike Force for the Eastern District of New York, as part of its campaign to get a clean bill of health from the federally-approved Independent Review Board (IRB). The IRB had been set up in the aftermath of a 1989 out-of-court settlement of a civil RICO filed by the Justice Department. Union officials are pointing to the findings as vindication of their view that this monitoring no longer is needed. But the study may be hiding as much as it is revealing. [/FONT][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]In April 2004, another study, also prepared at the union[/FONT][/SIZE][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]’[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]s request, was released. The lead person in that effort was Edwin Stier, a prominent Washington, D.C. lawyer and former federal prosecutor who[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]’[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]d led the Justice Department[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]’[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]s successful cleanup of northern New Jersey[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]’[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]s notorious Teamsters Local 560. When Hoffa took over as Teamsters president in 1999, one of the first things he did was hire Stier. Stier and his staff in response put together an internal cleanup proposal called RISE (Respect, Integrity, Strength and Ethics). Some five years and $15 million later, on April 28, 2004, Stier and his entire team of investigators and lawyers resigned, charging that Hoffa had [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]backed away[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] and [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] inexplicably retreated[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] from the union[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]’[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]s commitment to fight corruption. In his resignation letter, Stier stated he had [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]substantial reliable information that organized crime again threatens the union.[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] He specifically cited t op Hoffa aide Carlow Scalf and certain Chicago-area Teamster officials as subverting the investigation. Scalf himself has a checkered past; as a Detroit-area Teamster boss, he[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]’[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]d been suspended from the Teamsters for 60 days for allegedly embezzling nearly $70,000. [/SIZE][/FONT][/LEFT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Stier isn[/FONT][/SIZE][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]’[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]t about to clam up now that that the McDonald report is out. Calling it a [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]whitewash,[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] he points to the report[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]’[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]s omission of any mention that officials at Chicago[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]’[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]s Local 727 have allegedly bilked millions of dollars from union dental benefit funds. Stier also notes that the new report did not discuss allegations that a foreman in the city[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]’[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]s Hired Truck Program solicited bribes and made as much as $90,000 a year on the side by secretly owning a truck used in the program. Cleaning up a union, as Stier learned first-hand from the Local 560 experience, is an arduous process. 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[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]We disagree with his conclusions.[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] He added that the Justice Department was dissatisfied with the code of conduct proposed in the Stier report. Stier, in response, strongly disputes the charge. [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]The board (IRB) had seen the draft,[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] he noted. [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]There was never a rejection of this document by the federal government.[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]It is far from certain as to which version of the story will gain the upper hand. But it is of more than passing curiosity that the union would move so quickly to discredit a half-decade-long reform effort because it didn[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]’[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]t like the conclusions or the recommendations. Stier believes the Teamsters were desperate to discount the findings, while looking respectable. [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]It became clear that Jim Hoffa was beginning to succumb to...pressure in Chicago,[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]"[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] he noted. As the union gears up for its fall elections, union rank and file can be sure to hear a whole lot of Hoffa[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]’[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]s side of the story [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]–[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] and not too much of Stier[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]’[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]s. ([I]Chicago Tribune[/I], 7/14). [/SIZE][/FONT] [/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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