Legal Opinion
United States v. Local 560, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, & Helpers
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided March 8, 1984No. Civ. A. 82-689PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HAROLD A. ACKERMAN, District Judge.
John L. Lewis, former president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the United Mine Workers once said that “Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows.”
A careful review of the evidence in this unprecedented case reveals the verity of that observation.
It is not a pretty story. Beneath the relatively sterile language of a dry legal opinion is a harrowing tale of how evil men, sponsored by and part of organized criminal elements, infiltrated and ultimately captured Local 560 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the largest local…
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