TEAMSTERS (IBT)
Hoffa to Start "In-House" Anti-Corruption Effort
IBT boss James P. Hoffa announced Jul. 6 the imminent appointment of
Edwin H. Stier to head a new in-house anti-corruption effort. Stier successfully
rooted out corruption from IBT Local 560, a N.J. local notorious for mobsters.
For decades, the local was controlled by Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano,
who was convicted of murder and who law-enforcement say had a hand in the
1975 disappearance of Hoffa's father. Stier is also an ex-federal prosecutor.
The move, which has won praise and drawn criticism from labor "experts," is widely seen as part of Hoffa's attempt to end the federal government's supervision over IBT. Stier's job would include educating members about ethical standards and training them to investigate accusations of corruption. Such an "in-house" anti-corruption effort sounds eerily close the failed "internal reform effort" of the Laborers' Int'l Union of No. Am. Hopefully IBT and the Dep't of Justice avoid the errors of the Laborers' fiasco. [N.Y. Times 7/7/99, BNA 7/13/99]
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