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<blockquote data-quote="Catatonic" data-source="post: 2477946" data-attributes="member: 7966">In February 2016, the three-member Independent Review Board (IRB) charged Aloise, the most powerful Teamster official on the West Coast, with racketeering, taking gifts from employers, and negotiating a sham collective-bargaining agreement. One of the charges against Aloise includes accepting tickets (worth $9,600, to the Playboy Super Bowl party) from an employer who was negotiating with a Teamster local. It was noted by the IRB that Aloise’s official salaries and allowances in 2014 amounted to an eye-popping $346,722.Aloise is one of James P. Hoffa’s close allies — Hoffa has been president of the Teamsters since 1998. He was selected that year in a special election after it was revealed that the 1996 balloting had been tainted by incumbent Ron Carey’s elaborate scheme to funnel $700,000 in outside money to his campaign.Read more at: <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434686/teamsters-election-october-corruption-still-issue" target="_blank">Teamsters Still Mired in Corruption</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Catatonic, post: 2477946, member: 7966"] In February 2016, the three-member Independent Review Board (IRB) charged Aloise, the most powerful Teamster official on the West Coast, with racketeering, taking gifts from employers, and negotiating a sham collective-bargaining agreement. One of the charges against Aloise includes accepting tickets (worth $9,600, to the Playboy Super Bowl party) from an employer who was negotiating with a Teamster local. It was noted by the IRB that Aloise’s official salaries and allowances in 2014 amounted to an eye-popping [B][SIZE=6]$346,722[/SIZE][/B]. Aloise is one of James P. Hoffa’s close allies — Hoffa has been president of the Teamsters since 1998. He was selected that year in a special election after it was revealed that the 1996 balloting had been tainted by incumbent Ron Carey’s elaborate scheme to funnel $700,000 in outside money to his campaign. Read more at: [URL='http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434686/teamsters-election-october-corruption-still-issue']Teamsters Still Mired in Corruption[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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