Breaking the Devil's Pact: The Battle to Free the Teamsters from the Mob
James B. Jacobs and Kerry T. Cooperman
Abstract
In 1988, Manhattan US Attorney Rudolph 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. This book is an in-depth study of the US v. IBT, beginning with Giuliani ... More
Keywords: lawsuit, mafia, Rudolph Giuliani, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, racketeering, organized crime, American labor movement, US v. IBT, trusteeship, legal reform
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780814743089 |
| Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: March 2016 | DOI:10.18574/nyu/9780814743089.001.0001 |
