UNITED STATES v. LOC. 560, INTERN. BRO. OF TEAMSTERS

Civ. A. No. 82-689.

581 F.Supp. 279 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. LOCAL 560, INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, CHAUFFEURS, WAREHOUSEMEN, AND HELPERS OF AMERICA, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

As Amended March 8, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Hunt Dumont, U.S. Atty. for the Dist. of New Jersey by Robert C. Stewart, Thomas L. Weisenbeck, Asst. U.S. Atty., Leopold Laufer, Sp. Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Newark, N.J., for plaintiff.

Edward A. Cohen, Schneider, Cohen, Solomon & DiMarzio, Jersey City, N.J., for defendants Local 560 and the Severance Pay Plan.

Harvey Weissbard, West Orange, N.J., for defendants Provenzano, Sheridan, Dildine, Reynolds, Sciarra and Jaronko.

Herbert New, Brenner, New & Brenner, Livingston, N.J., for defendant Trucking Employees of North Jersey Welfare Fund.

Stephen Andretta and Gabriel Briguglio, pro se.


OPINION

HAROLD A. ACKERMAN, District Judge.

John L. Lewis, former president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the United Mine Workers once said that "Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows."

A careful review of the evidence in this unprecedented case reveals the verity of that observation.

It is not a pretty story. Beneath the relatively sterile language of a dry legal opinion is a harrowing tale of how evil men, sponsored by...

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