Word: pressers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indictments spelled out numerous counts that added up to a double whammy last week. Whammy No. 1, from a grand jury in Cleveland, slapped racketeering charges on Jackie Presser, the big (350-lbs.) but hard-to-hit president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Whammy No. 2, from a grand jury in Washington, charged an FBI agent with lying to protect Presser, who is said to have been a federal snitch since...
...agent, Robert Friedrick, is accused of falsely stating that the FBI had authorized Presser to commit the crimes he is now charged with: embezzling union money as salaries for people holding no-show "ghost" jobs in Cleveland's Teamster Local 507. While the indictment of an FBI man was an embarrassment to the agency, the action against Presser had no immediate effect on him or his union...
Unlike Teamster Union Boss Jackie Presser, who escaped prosecution on charges of padding union payrolls this year because he was an FBI informant, Dellacroce's cooperation did not keep him out of jail. In 1972 he was sentenced to five years in prison for income tax evasion. Collins had expected that one day Dellacroce would demand payment for his information, but that never happened. The veteran FBI agent died of a heart attack in 1980 at the age of 51. This year Dellacroce was ordered to stand trial on racketeering and conspiracy charges, along with ten other accused members...
...accepted a settlement allowing the E.F. Hutton brokerage company to plead guilty to a massive check- kiting scheme, but declined to seek indictments of any of the firm's officers, although Hutton was fined $2 million. Meese has also had to defend the Justice Department's protection of Jackie Presser, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the only major union boss who supported Ronald Reagan's 1980 and 1984 presidential bids. In July the Justice Department decided not to prosecute Presser on charges of paying $274,000 to nonworking "ghost employees" at a Teamsters local in Cleveland...
However handsomely Presser paid his ghost employees, the ample (300 lb.) Jackie drew a far fatter salary. An annual review of the union's books by the dissident Teamsters for a Democratic Union revealed that Presser paid himself $755,474 last year. That is roughly $185,000 more than the 1984 salary of Chrysler Chief Lee Iacocca, and about ten times the salary of Owen Bieber, head of the United Auto Workers. The T.D.U. says 74 other Teamsters officials made more than $100,000 last year...