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Article: Organized labor fights family ties. (struggle for control of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters between President Ron Carey and James P. Hoffa Jr.) (Cover Story)
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- Insight on the News
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- November 21, 1994
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Investigators of Teamsters President Ron Carey's reputed link to the mob have been accused of sweeping the evidence under the rug in the face of next year's union elections. Challenger James P. Hoffa Jr., son of the infamous leader who disappeared in the seventies, is crying foul.
A watchdog agency assigned to stop corruption within the Teamsters has ignored union President Ron Carey's suspected organized crime ties in an effort to block James P. Hoffa Jr., the son of the notorious former Teamsters president, from seizing control of the union.
Carey is involved in an internal battle to take central control of the sprawling union, which is splintered by ...