TY - BOOK ID - 77884211 TI - Breaking the Devil's Pact AU - Jacobs, James B., AU - Cooperman, Kerry T PY - 2011 SN - 0814743668 9780814743669 9780814743676 0814743676 9780814743089 0814743080 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - LAW / Criminal Law / General KW - LAW / General KW - Organized crime investigation KW - Labor unions KW - Racketeering KW - Mafia trials KW - Criminal investigation KW - Industrial unions KW - Labor, Organized KW - Labor organizations KW - Organized labor KW - Trade-unions KW - Unions, Labor KW - Unions, Trade KW - Working-men's associations KW - Labor movement KW - Societies KW - Central labor councils KW - Guilds KW - Syndicalism KW - Crime syndicates KW - Organized crime KW - Mafia KW - Trials of alleged mafia members KW - Trials KW - History. KW - Corrupt practices KW - Giuliani, Rudolph W. KW - Giuliani, Rudy KW - Dzhuliani, Rudolʹf U. KW - Kilyān̲i, Ruṭālk̲ap KW - International Brotherhood of Teamsters KW - United States. KW - DOJ (Department of Justice) KW - IBT KW - Teamsters KW - International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen, and Helpers of America KW - International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America KW - Teamsters' National Union of America KW - Team Drivers' International Union KW - United Teamsters of America KW - Trials, litigation, etc. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77884211 AB - "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"-- ER -