The Chicago Syndicate: Teamsters
Showing posts with label Teamsters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teamsters. Show all posts
Thursday, December 06, 2012

New York Unions Are Still Mob Targets

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The Genovese crime family has a well-earned reputation as the most feared of New York City's five Mafia organizations. An FBI bust this ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Mob Hit Site "Purple Hotel" to Get Extreme Makeover

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There are plans for a major makeover at the site of one of the most infamous mob hits in Chicago history. A development company recently pur...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Jimmy Hoffa Buried Under Driveway in Roseville, Michigan?

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Investigators will take soil samples from the ground beneath a suburban Detroit driveway after a man told police he believes he witnessed th...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Teamsters Get Former Mob Bookie Hired at The Illinois Department of Transporation Along with a Check for Over $100,000 from Taxpayers

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FOX Chicago's investigators have learned that the state of Illinois has been ordered to re-hire a former mob bookie, and cut him a check...
Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Reputed Mob Associate Tapped to Build FBI Headquarters

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He is the man who helped build a greater part of Las Vegas with millions of dollars from Jimmy Hoffa’s mobbed-up Teamsters’ pension fund. A...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Peter Bart's "Infamous Players: A Tale of Movies, the Mob (and Sex)"

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He was a tall, silver-haired man, square-jawed with a military bearing, always impeccably attired in a dark blue suit. It was only a few wee...
Saturday, February 06, 2010

Plans to Dig Up the Old Giants Stadium to Search for Jimmy Hoffa's Body?

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What do the New York Giants and Jets have in common with Jimmy Hoffa? Not much, unless you buy into the long-festering urban legend that the...
Friday, January 29, 2010

Rudy Fratto Says that Not Paying Taxes for 7 Years Was Just a Mistake

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Rudy Fratto , reputed top lieutenant in the Chicago Outfit , proudly told me just before his sentencing on Wednesday that he'd never bef...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

Prosecutorial Misconduct in the Hoffa Conviction?

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The government's hard-won conviction of Jimmy Hoffa on jury-tampering charges is under assault 45 years later. A retired law professor h...
Saturday, April 04, 2009

The Devil and Sidney Korshak Coming to HBO

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One of the most intriguing characters to ever come out of Chicago will be the focus of a major HBO miniseries, executive produced by legenda...
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Monday, March 23, 2009

Chicago Glitterati to Host Fund-Raiser for Former Union Boss with Reputed Mob Ties

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Sneed of the Chicago Sun-Times reports: Former union boss Bill Hogan is going to get some help paying staggering legal bills from a federa...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Joey the Clown Given Life in Prison

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Reputed mob boss Joseph "Joey the Clown" Lombardo was sentenced Monday to life in federal prison for serving as a leader of Chicag...
Monday, February 02, 2009

Mobster, Joey "The Clown" Lombardo, Gets Life in Prison

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Mobster Joey "the Clown" Lombardo, one of the five Outfit associates convicted in the landmark Family Secrets trial that riveted C...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Operation Family Secrets Mob Trial Sentencing to Continue This Week

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Federal agents tried for more than three decades to penetrate the deepest secrets of Chicago's organized crime family -- the names of th...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

On the Waterfront, Mafia-Style, Leads to Operation UNIRAC

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Dockworkers in Wilmington, North Carolina were getting sucked into a trap. Needing money between paychecks, some went to James Lee, a former...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Keith Corbett, Federal Prosecutor Who Helped Break the Detroit Mafia, to Retire

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The federal prosecutor who helped break the Detroit Mafia is calling it quits. Keith Corbett, 59, the cigar-chomping assistant U.S. Attorney...
Monday, November 03, 2008

Was Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal a Snitch?

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Back before he was mayor of Las Vegas, when he was the city's leading mob attorney, Oscar Goodman insisted he didn't represent snitc...