Breaking the Devil's Pact

by Jacobs, James B.; Cooperman, Kerry T.

• ISBN13: 9780814743089
• ISBN10: 0814743080
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-01
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

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. 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. James B. Jacobs crafts a penetrating examination of the potential and limits of court-supervised organizational reform in the context of systemic corruption and racketeering.

Table of Contents

Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
U.S. v. IBT Timeline	p. xix
Principal Names	p. xxiii
Introducing the Litigants and the Judge	p. 1
The Civil Rico Complaint and Settlement	p. 22
Ibt Resistance and Judge Edelstein's Resolve: July 1989-September 1992	p. 48
Establishing New Disciplinary Machinery: July 1989-September 1992	p. 64
An-Insurgent's Triumph: The lbts 1991 Election	p. 83
General President Carey and the Irb: 1992-1997	p. 103
The 1996 Election Scandal	p. 122
The 1998 Rerun Election and the Emerging Dominance	p. 146
The 2001 Election, the Demise of Project Rise, and the Ieb's Third Term	p. 167
The 2006 Election, the Irb's Fourth Term, and the Lead-Up to the 2011 Election	p. 190
Lessons, Reflections, and Speculations	p. 210
Acknowledgments	p. 231
Notes	p. 233
Bibliography	p. 287
Index	p. 293
About the Authors	p. 310
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