In 1988, despite powerful Congressional opposition, U.S.
Attorney Rudy Giuliani brought a massive civil racketeering (RICO)
suit against the leaders of the behemoth International Brotherhood
of Teamsters (IBT) and more than two dozen Cosa Nostra (LCN)
leaders. Intending to land a fatal blow to the mafia, Giuliani
asserted that the union and organized-crime defendants had formed a
devil's pact. He charged the IBT leaders with allowing their
organized-crime cronies to use the union as a profit center in
exchange for the mobsters' political support and a share of the
spoils of corruption. On the eve of what would have been one of the
most explosive trials in organized-crime and labor history, the
Department of Justice and the Teamsters settled.
Breaking the Devil's Pact traces the fascinating history of U.S. v.
IBT, beginning with Giuliani's controversial lawsuit and continuing
with in-depth analysis of the ups and downs of an unprecedented
remedial effort involving the Department of Justice, the federal
courts, the court-appointed officers (including former FBI and CIA
director William Webster and former U.S. attorney general Benjamin
Civiletti), and the IBT itself. Now more than 22 years old and
spanning over 5 election cycles, U.S. v. IBT is the most important
labor case in the last half century, one of the most significant
organized crime cases of all time, and one of the most ambitious
judicial organizational reform efforts in U.S. history. Breaking
the Devil's Pact is a penetrating examination of the potential and
limits of court-supervised organizational reform in the context of
systemic corruption and racketeering.
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