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Article: Teamster's Internal Investigation Can't Survive Union Demands.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- May 10, 2004
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Byline: Stephen Franklin
May 10--After months of resistance and clashes, investigators knew their internal probe of the Teamsters was doomed when union officials in Washington demanded their confidential files and witness names.
"We couldn't do that. We'd give it to law enforcement and nobody else," said Jim Kossler, a former FBI agent who had been chief investigator of the Teamsters' 4 1/2-year-old internal anti-corruption arm.
The union said it wanted the files for a lawyer it had hired to sift through the investigators' work.
But it was the final blow in the troubled relationship between the Teamsters and the investigators they ...