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One of them was Anthony Provenzano, who had been a Teamsters local leader in New Jersey and a national vice-president of the union during Hoffa's second term as its president. Provenzano was a caporegime in the New York City Genovese crime family. At least two of Provenzano's union opponents had been murdered, and others who had spoken out ...
John A. Cody (June 17, 1921 – April 4, 2001) was a notorious New York union leader and racketeer.He was the president of the Teamsters union Local 282 between 1976 and 1984, during which time he utilized strikes, extortion and mafia intimidation to bend developers to his will and gained a fearsome reputation within the New York construction industry.
June 15 – Genovese caporegime and Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 560, Anthony Provenzano, is convicted with enforcer Harold "Kayo" Konigsberg by a grand jury in Kingston, New York as an accessory for the 1961 murder of Teamsters Union rival Anthony Castellito and, on June 21, sentenced from 25 years' to life imprisonment.
The main national body of the Teamsters union may have declined to endorse a candidate for the 2024 presidential election, but that hasn't stopped local units from doing so.
2018 New York State Assembly election, District 118 [4] [5] Primary election Party Candidate Votes % Republican: Robert Smullen: 4,499 : 57.8 : Republican: Patrick Vincent 3,279 42.2 Write-in: 0 0.0 Total votes 7,778 : 100 : Conservative: Robert Smullen: 98 : 53.3 : Conservative: Patrick Vincent 86 46.7 Write-in: 0 0.0 Total votes 184 : 100 ...
WASHINGTON — The Teamsters’ political action committee broke decades of precedent last month when the union leadership voted to approve a $45,000 donation to the Republican National Committee ...
The Teamsters covered by the Costco national contract make up 8% of the 219,000 US employees that the company has at 616 US stores, according to company filings. But a strike by that many workers ...
On December 9, 1975, Provenzano was indicted in the Southern District of New York, along with Anthony Bentro and Lawrence Paladino, for conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statute for a proposed $2.3 million pension-fund loan from the Utica Teamsters Benefit Fund for the renovation of the Woodstock Hotel; [15] in July 1978, he was convicted ...