The New York Times has reported that last winter, a lawyer for the Teamsters union asked the Justice Department to have the federal government stop monitoring the union. “The talks paved the way for a motion filed last week by the Teamsters and federal prosecutors in Manhattan that would dismantle what remains of external disciplinary structures established in 1989 to rid the union of organized crime,” The Times said.
You can probably guess who facilitated the lack of oversight.
“Brian T. Kelly, a lawyer working for the Teamsters, had asked Todd Blanche, then the deputy attorney general, to negotiate an end to the government’s oversight of the union, according to people involved in the case,” The Times reported. The matter was quickly in the hands of federal prosecutors in the Southern District, under the leadership of the U.S. attorney Jay Clayton.”
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