United States v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters

MEMORANDUM & ORDER

EDELSTEIN, District Judge:

This Memorandum and Order emanates from the voluntary settlement of an action commenced by plaintiff the United States of America (“the Government”) against, inter alia, defendants International Brotherhood of Teamsters (“IBT”) and the IBT’s General Executive Board embodied in the voluntary consent order entered March 14,1989 (“Consent Decree”). The goal of the Consent Decree is to rid the IBT of the hideous influence of organized crime through a two-phased implementation of the Consent Decree’s various remedial provisions. In the first phase of the…