former Teamster "boss" Carey indicted

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jan 26 12:17:08 PST 2001


John Halle wrote:


>A few months back, Doug posted a Newsday article by Bob Fitch which
>claimed that that the Clinton justice department held off on the
>prosecution of, among others Trumka and Stern, for illegally channelling
>union funds to the Carey campaign.
>
>Are these guys next-having now lost what Finch called their "get out of
>jail free" card?

By chance, I just talked to Fitch an hour ago, and he used exactly that phrase, predicting that there's a good chance that Trumka's next. He says the main reason the unions gave the Dems $45m in this election cycle was to assure the validity of their GOOJF card.

Doug



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