Charges recommended against fourth top Teamster official

Published November 22, 2016 6:14pm ET



The official charged with monitoring the International Brotherhood of Teamsters has decided that the executive assistant to union President James P. Hoffa should be charged with racketeering for illegally accepting six tickets to a 2013 Super Bowl party in New Orleans hosted by Playboy magazine.

The tickets were a gift to William C. Smith from an employer whose workers are represented by the Teamsters and were given in exchange for the Teamsters leadership’s help in ensuring that union contract negotiations underway at the time were concluded on terms favorable to the company, not the workers, according to independent investigations officer Joseph diGenova.

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