http://www.tdu.org/HoffaWatch/NewHWhtml/marriedmob.htm
Married to the Mob? April 29,2005. "My problem is with one man: Jim Hoffa." That's what Ed Stier said when he resigned last year as the head of Project RISE, the internal Teamster anti-corruption program. Now we know why. TDU has obtained a confidential report that Stier issued to Hoffa. It warned of intelligence reports that Chicago mafia figures were exerting influence in the General President's office to block investigations into their organized crime interests.
The report charges Hoffa with personally derailing investigations into organized crime influence in multiple Chicago locals.
The General President's office ordered a shutdown of all investigations into corruption and organized crime in Chicago in February, 2004. In the report, Stier called on Hoffa to reverse course and enable RISE to investigate organized crime influence in Chicago locals and in the General President's office itself. Hoffa refused and Stier resigned in April 2004, along with his entire staff of investigators.
At the time of Stier's resignation, speculation centered on the role played by Hoffa's-then Executive Assistant Carlow Scalf in blocking investigations into organized crime in the Chicago Teamsters, reportedly at the behest of Chicago mob officials.
But the full text of Stier's 302-page report reveals that Hoffa himself repeatedly derailed investigations into organized crime and protected officials accused of organized crime ties. Included were Teamster power brokers who backed Hoffa in his rise to the General Presidency.............
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http://www.tdu.org/HoffaWatch/NewHWhtml/fedIrbpursue.htm
While Hoffa prepares to release a report justifying his shutdown of RISE investigations into organized crime, government investigators and the press are pursuing the leads Hoffa claims are a dead end:
a.. Joint Council 25 President John Coli is under investigation by the FBI based on the leads Hoffa chose not to pursue including allegations of organized crime influence and benefit fund scams in Local 727.
b.. The Independent Review Board is investigating Local 714, the 10,000-member local long run by the Hogan family. At least ten people have been summoned to testify as part of the investigation.
The Independent Review Board (IRB) has already acted on other investigations shut down by Hoffa. Joseph Bernstein, a Hoffa ally and Joint Council 25 Vice President, has been barred from the Teamsters. In another breaking story, The Chicago Sun-Times has linked former Local 726 president Daniel Stefanski with organized crime figures including "mob bookie Nick 'the Stick' LoCoco" who is suspected of taking bribes from working Teamsters who wanted full-time jobs or overtime opportunities....