LEADER 04371nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910828242703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-4366-8 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814743669 035 $a(CKB)2550000000047662 035 $a(EBL)865570 035 $a(OCoLC)753976169 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606237 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11345396 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606237 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10596494 035 $a(PQKB)11682782 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001324025 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865570 035 $a(OCoLC)789187309 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4878 035 $a(DE-B1597)547437 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814743669 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000047662 100 $a20110620d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBreaking the devil's pact $ethe battle to free the Teamsters from the mob /$fJames B. Jacobs and Kerry T. Cooperman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (337 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-4798-8387-5 311 0 $a0-8147-4308-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroducing the litigants and the judge -- The civil RICO complaint and settlement -- IBT resistance and Judge Edelstein's resolve: July 1989--September 1992 -- Establishing new disciplinary machinery: July 1989--September 1992 -- An insurgent's triumph: the IBT's 1991 election -- General President Carey and the IRB: 1992--1997 -- The 1996 election scandal -- The emergence of James P. Hoffa -- The 2001 election, the demise of project rise and the IRB's third term -- The 2006 election, the IRB's fourth term and the lead up to the 2011 -- Election -- Lessons, reflections and speculations. 330 $a"In 1988, despite powerful Congressional opposition, U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani brought a massive civil racketeering (RICO) suit against the leaders of the behemoth International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and more than two dozen Cosa Nostra (LCN) leaders. Intending to land a fatal blow to the mafia, Giuliani asserted that the union and organized-crime defendants had formed a devil's pact. He charged the IBT leaders with allowing their organized-crime cronies to use the union as a profit center in exchange for the mobsters' political support and a share of the spoils of corruption. On the eve of what would have been one of the most explosive trials in organized-crime and labor history, the Department of Justice and the Teamsters settled. Breaking the Devil's Pact traces the fascinating history of U.S. v. IBT, beginning with Giuliani's controversial lawsuit and continuing with in-depth analysis of the ups and downs of an unprecedented remedial effort involving the Department of Justice, the federal courts, the court-appointed officers (including former FBI and CIA director William Webster and former U.S. attorney general Benjamin Civiletti), and the IBT itself. Now more than 22 years old and spanning over 5 election cycles, U.S. v. IBT is the most important labor case in the last half century, one of the most significant organized crime cases of all time, and one of the most ambitious judicial organizational reform efforts in U.S. history. Breaking the Devil's Pact is a penetrating examination of the potential and limits of court-supervised organizational reform in the context of systemic corruption and racketeering"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aMafia trials$zUnited States 606 $aRacketeering$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aLabor unions$xCorrupt practices$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aOrganized crime investigation$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aMafia trials 615 0$aRacketeering$xHistory. 615 0$aLabor unions$xCorrupt practices$xHistory. 615 0$aOrganized crime investigation$xHistory. 676 $a345.73/0267 700 $aJacobs$b James B$0945933 701 $aCooperman$b Kerry T$01760134 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828242703321 996 $aBreaking the devil's pact$94198951 997 $aUNINA