Chicago Mob Teamster Union Influence

Just a hint of their power in the unions today is contained below.
This is just from a minutes of investigating. This is just the tip of the iceberg 

Union Officials Influenced and Controlled by the Mob in the Teamsters Currently
1.James Glimco-Local 777 IBT President and Trustee of Joint Council 25 of the IBT
Son of Former Outfit Capo Joey Glimco.
2.John Coli- President of Joint Council 25 IBT and Secratary Treasure of Local 727 and  Member of Teamster National Executive Board and Vice President of Central Region IBT. Son of former Chicago LCN Soldier James Coli.
3. Dominick Romanazzi-President IBT Local 330. Confirmed Chicago LCN Associate by The FBI and the Chicago Crime Comission.
4.James M Hogan- President Local 714 IBT. Confirmed associate of the Chicago LCN by the FBI an the Chicago Crime Commission. Uncle of Mob associates James Hogan Jr and Brother of James Hogan Sr.


Thats 4 different current Teamster union presidents. The President and Trustee  of Joint Council 25 which oversees the pension fund of 28 combined Teamster locals and which represent more than 115,000 workers. Last but not least the Vice President of the Central Region of The United States for The Teamsters and a member of The National Executive Board.

The investigation in 2004 and also 2009 both times were stopped by and shut down by James P Hoffa, the son of one of the most Notoriously currupt mobbed up union leaders in history. They probably told Hoffa remember your father

First, was a new thread on this really necessary?

Second, James Hogan retired as president not long before Local 714 was put under trusteeship back in 2008.

Third, while Hoffa Jr. can shut down internal investigations, he couldn't do the same with the FBI and Justice Department. So why has there been so little in the way of mob-related labor racketeering indictments in recent years?

Truly, louie, your posts are based more on speculation more than anything else.

Current President of the Chicago Laborers District Council
Joseph Cocanato
Background
Confirmed by FBI Chicago LCN associate.
States in the 1997 laborers hearing that he "did not beleive there was a mob in Chicago"
Admitted friend of Bruno , Frank an Leo Caruso
Close to Joseph Lombardo Jr and Sr
In 1991 became secretary treasurer of local 25
In 1994 became president of Local 25 of the laborer
Current President of Local 25


Finally
National President of The Production Workers Union
Joseph Senese
Background- Son of Dominick Senese,Confirmed member of the Chicago LCN
Close friend of the Foscos who are mobbed up
Sued and indicted in the early 1990s for steerings contracts to mobbed up companies

Again not the local president, the national president.

[quote=IvyLeague]First, was a new thread on this really necessary?

Second, James Hogan retired as president not long before Local 714 was put under trusteeship back in 2008.

Third, while Hoffa Jr. can shut down internal investigations, he couldn't do the same with the FBI and Justice Department. So why has there been so little in the way of mob-related labor racketeering indictments in recent years?

Truly, louie, your posts are based more on speculation more than anything else. [/quote


Ivy Hoffa can shut down an internal investigation but that's not why people come under investigation. Calls put in to the irb that are investigated he can't shut down and a majority of inquiry's come into the irb.

I get that but, my question is, if there were anything substantial in these investigations, why isn't the FBI and Department of Labor would be all over it. Organized crime influence in the labor unions has always been one of their biggest priorities.

http://www.teamster.org/sites/teamster.org/files/Spring_Teamster_2013.pdf

Go to page 26 a few cases

And if you take a look at the last page it states 90 calls to the irb that's in a 3 month period and I'm sure it takes a while to do the investagations. So a it's over 300 calls a year and that's just the teamsters.

I'll go with what the FBI says.

you'd think there would be more post in this thread

seeing how a lot of posters love to talk about how weakened the outfit has gotten

seems like they still have some clout

Again, the devil is in the details. The question is whether this is clout or residual clout. If you look at the case at the link below, you see a similar civil case brought by a waterfront company against mobbed up ILA guys earlier this year. The difference is, we've seen tons of union busts in New York in recent years, especially involving the Genovese family. Why nothing similar in Chicago if the union clout and labor racketeering is still pervasive there?

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/02/terminal_operator_sues_longsho.html

Good post Louie...incredible that any of the Hogans are allowed in IBT, let alone leadership positions.

Dominic Romanazzi and his brother Frank are hooked up with the Grand Avenue Crew and are actually cousins of former Melrose Park Deputy Police Chief James Caputo, who went down with Vito Scavo in 2010. They are also cousins with Anthony Pellicano I believe.

this thread is about Chicago......not new york

if Chicago still has the teamsters then they still have significant clout

Thanks, Captain Obvious.

I brought up the case in New York to show that these internal civil cases louie brought up are not altogether uncommon or unique to Chicago.

And it all depends on what you mean by Chicago still "having the Teamsters."

@ivyleague


this thread ain't got shit to do with new York or civil cases brought up in NYC

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-05-25/news/0105250221_1_ken-paff-teamsters-dane-passo

Looks like Longtime Chicago LCn associate, William hogan was jc 25 president from the 80s until early 2000s, when he was replaced by the son of Chicago LCN soldier James coli , John coli

Local 714 is the teamster union at Maccormik place
Which in recent times to the present have givin jobs to convicted felons and outfit members Nick Ferriola,Michael Sarno and Rudy Fratto

Solly D controls the Philippino whore trade. Believe it.

Semi-related...lets not forget this. These guys do all the cleaning at O'Hare.


http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/12/05/e...ction-mob-ties/

And how would he do that.

His magic stick obviously.

I thought Filipinos might have an innate fear of helmet hair or something.

they probably got those jobs because they're black

Solly D is the primary liasion between the white house & Chicagoland organized crime. Fact.

Do you and cookcounty smoke crack together?

[quote=HuronSocialAthletic]Solly D is the primary liasion between the white house & Chicagoland organized crime. Fact.

Who do they have in the white house?

Quoted for racism.

quoted for being a dumbass

Basically the Old Neighborhood Italian American Club IS the White House.

Pudgy is sitting there right now eating a beef and deciding whether we go into Syria or not.

Leo Caruso is Obama's driver.

Basically.

Quoted for being a gullible, naive, borderline illiterate child.

"borderline illiterate"

if you cant understand my posts then you dont know how to fucking read. The sad part is I think you actually believe all the bullshit you post on here. bring up chicago/elmwoodparker all you want, the fact is your a joke and everyone knows it.

Brah don't be mad that Solly D is making major moves at the governmental level, while you're stuck swinging from gangster testicles on some internet forum.....

Solly D controls the Iranian heroin trade from a pizza parlor in Island Lake, IL. Just facts brahh.

damn you just wanna suck on Solly D's dick huh

Bro, the bottom line is: I think we can all agree that if Shorty Aldo & Bobby Dominic wanted it, they would shut down O'Hare airport.

Amiright? All agreed?

so you just came in the thread mad like a little kid?

the syndicate still has connections........GET OVER IT PIMP

Cut out the childish shit here.

He's being sarcastic how did you not figure that out

Yes nicky, i know he was being sarcastic.

"Do you & cookcounty smoke crack together?" = implying that all African Americans smoke crack cocaine. Racism.

Huron taking everything i say as being racist=Being a bitch

Chart of CURRENT Mob influence at ohare
Ivy is this also a coincidence???? V

You know what they say

Where there's smoke there's fire

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/07/1168107/-Is-the-Mob-cleaning-up-at-Chicago-s-O-Hare-Airport



Willie potatoes jr is involved as well

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/16833459-418/mob-ties-mount-on-ohare-cleaning-contractor.html


In 2012 teamster union aka coli and glimco force illinois dept of transportation to rehire Chicago mobster

http://www.thechicagosyndicate.com/2012/01/teamsters-get-former-mob-bookie-hired.html?m=1

Quoting the above article

Chicago senator aks "with unemployment in the state at 10%
How does someone with this questionable background get hired as a supervisor with the state"

Says frank Calabrese jr "that's called clout"


In 2004 teamster local 330 member John pavlivk was speaking out against the corrupt mob connected leadership of local 330 of the IBT(current mob associate Dominic Romanazzi is the president of the local)

He received a letter in the mail with a copy of a flyer he had been handing out
Written on the flyer was "you are dead"
Along with the letter in the envelope was 45-caliber bullet

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-11-07/business/0411070237_1_investigators-report-local-mob





Quotes from the article
"in 2001 Sen James Deleo ask, "what does that mean mob associated, in 2001 is there really a mob in Chicago"
Side note-James Deleos 2 best friends are Obama and John Difronzo

Edwin Steir wrote in 2004
"Most of our recent investigations have concentrated in one metropolitan area,
Where organized crime remains a serious Problem in business and politics"

"that metropolitan area is Chicago and around here the mob still quietly wields tremendous power"


http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-...-union-official

I was aware of literally everything you posted above. Get back to me when you finally catch up to the present, Louie. If you read these cases in depth, is more smoke than anything. If you want to believe there's fire, go ahead. But it's probably more like smoke from cinders going out. Maybe a big Outfit labor union case is just around the corner that will prove me wrong. But I wouldn't bet on it.

Just answer yes or no
Are you more of an expert than former organized crime prosecutor Edwin Steir who in 2004 personally investigate the matter that we speak about and also the people that we speak about that are currently in power, in the teamsters?

A simple yes or no will suffice

No, I'm not. But you can't just cherrypick what evidence you want to consider, louie. You have to look at ALL the evidence involving Outfit activity in recent years and weigh it all in the balance. You NEVER...EVER...do that. You just pick out what suits you and ignore everything else. It's why I can't take much of what you say seriously.

He just posted tons of links of proof and you still come up with some excuse. Why don't you put up some links saying the opposite?

Did you bother reading the links? They hardly prove what louie is saying/wishing.

Look at the labor racketeering cases - or lack thereof - in Chicago for more than a decade now; especially after several mobbed up union guys were ousted in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Or try actually reading the Stier report all the way through like I did. There's not a lot there, at least anything that resulted in an indictment.

What you get with union racketeering in Chicago, like so many things related to the Outfit, is so much rumor, speculation, conjecture, etc. The O'Hare article is one example. This guy is connected to that guy, who knows that guy, who was this guys kid, so there may be a mob connection here. Or one guy (Peluso) getting his job back? Wow. A bullet left in the mailbox of a guy speaking out against Local 330? And that proves....? Stier's comments? Why did nothing in his report result in a single case brought by the Justice Department?

Like I keep saying, the devil is in the details and you actually have to read more than just the headlines (or the parts louie chooses to post). After the Family Secrets case, Ronald Goldstock said, "What you're seeing in Chicago and elsewhere are mopping up operations." Outfit historian John Binder said "they still have some labor racketeering." I could agree with that. But not with them having pervasive control over the Teamsters locals in Chicago like Steir says (and louie and you wish was true.)

Good stuff Louie. Randazzo is a bad guy.

he's always asking people to post proof and now the proof ain't good enough

Nicky,,
Great challenge.

I'm curious, how is the O'Hare stuff "speculation"? Fosco went to prison for racketeering. I mean I don't care one way or another whether you agree, but sometimes I feel like you argue with these guys for the sake of argument.

Prosecutors office, crime commissions, nonprofit centers, etc., are notorious for exaggerating whatever nefarious activity they happen to be monitoring.

It's not too hard to connect those dots; monitoring those endeavors is their raison d'etre. They are also always making cases for more funding.

I brought the same point up yesterday to someone talking about the Souther Poverty Law Centers estimate of 12,000 KKK members. You can bet they counted every Billy Bob's uncle, cousin, everyone who had ever stopped at one going back to the 1950s.

The O'Hare and union stuff is interesting but all anyone is able to do is point to it as probable clout.

What else is the mob doing with these unions than hooking their relatives up with $50K a year jobs?

In that same vein, prosecutor's offices and the FBI are notorious for exaggerating the effects of their efforts i.e. saying "The mob is finished" or "this is the blow that crippled the mob."

Family Secrets did nothing of the sort, yet look at the language in their press releases. DiFronzo and their top capo's were not even touched. Listen to Giuliani rant about his prosecutions in the 1980s that brought down the five families.

If you purely believe what the FBI says and claims then you probably would think the mob was killed off with the commission trials.

You need common sense to call a spade a spade and frankly, some people don't have it (or have an interest against it because they've been arguing the same position for years and have trouble saying "I was wrong.")

Actually Mitch Mars and Markus Funk went way out of their way to say that it in no way indicated the mob was dead.

I remember Mars saying (paraphrase) "The mob isn't going anywhere and neither are we."

Journalists are probably more guilty of overstating cases than anyone as it helps them sell papers, books etc.

I do remember Bob Cooley arguing his testimony crippled the mob, which it did, and the FBI agent who handled his case saying he deserved a lot more credit for essentially bringing down the mob in Chicago.

Of course he didn't completely bring it down but he did hurt it very, very badly.

"The mob isn't going anywhere and neither are we."
lol Mitch Mars is dead and Funk went into private practice. Many of the Family Secrets defendants are back on the street.

Bob Cooley's testimony was a big case, but again he didn't touch the top boss. Marco D'Amico and Bobby Abbinanti are back out on the streets and back into old habits if you weren't aware...Cooley however is still in hiding. Not sure it hurt the mob "that badly" aside from loosening their grip on the first ward.

How does Cooley "deserve more credit"?

He is widely & universally recognized as the "lawyer that crippled the Outfit's control over the 1st Ward". His book was a best seller.

Mark Wahlberg is adapting the book & playing the Guy in a God damn movie, for crying out loud.

How much more credit does he deserve?

BJ Jahoda is the one who deserves more credit.

By "we" he meant the prosecutor's office.

And, to be frank, if you're keeping score, while he was alive Mitch Mars kicked the Outfit's little ass all over the place. He put Calabrese, Lombardo, Marcello, Infelise, Tocco, Delaurentis and Aleman all behind bars.

I'm not sure you could minimize blowing up the First Ward; that was essentially the center of their power.

Yeah, the Family Secrets defendents who pleaded guilty! Not a single one who went to trial...LOL indeed!

Doyle is the only one who is likely to ever see the light of day again.

It was just an FBI agent saying that the trial didn't get as much publicity as it deserved.

Nah, Cooley's wire tapping of the first Ward destroyed the outfit's dominance within city limits. After that, the majority of operations were relocated for good to the suburbs.

That's a bit like saying World War II just caused the Germans to move operations to Bavaria, but in lieu of hard data it's just speculation how much they were diminshed.

I do remember the same FBI agent remarking that after GAMBAT and GREYLORD Oufit connected homicides dropped precipitously but I don't have the figures.

Not really. Outside of Chinatown & The Patch, & select parts of Rush St, where do they still have strongholds within city limits?

What I'm saying is that it was more of a blow than a simple geographic relocation.

BTW, Rush St. is pretty interesting. I won't get into it because unlike a lot of people on this forum I don't think it's right to slander potentially innocent people by associating them with organized crime.

But it is an interesting subject, both for things that are fairly widely known and some that are not so well known.

What louie has posted, besides being nothing new, doesn't support his exaggerated claims about the Outfit's current control of the Teamsters Union in Chicago.



My point is the O'Hare allegations are indicative of so much regarding the Chicago Outfit nowadays - i.e. the allegation of a mob-connection being obscure or inconclusive.



Dispensing union jobs - and they don't have to be "no show" - is one form of labor racketeering. And it seems to make up much of what is remaining in Chicago.



It says something that big mob cases like Family Secrets are becoming less and less common in Chicago.



What one needs to do is look at the evidence - particularly the Outfit cases in recent years - objectively. The whole picture, weighing it all in the balance. With no preconceived notions, agenda, or cherry picking. And, if one does that, they'll see your underlying theme about the Outfit still having Chicago in an "iron grip" is a bunch of hooey.

lol Jared you are such a little pencil-pusher!

LOL! Nail=head.

Ah yes, and you're an in-the-know, tough guy from Chicago who knows the streets.

(Then you woke up)

You raise an interesting point.

While I think it's possible that people know stuff because their long-dead uncles, etc., were affiliated, I find the likelihood of people, particualrly on this board, being in the know about current operations via word of mouth from any kind of reliable source in most cases absurd.

The idea that anyone who has any real clue of what illegal activity is going on sitting there at the bar talking about it to someone who would then go post it on the Internet is inhrenelty proposterous.

I remember reading a wire on Mike Sarno where when the caller even brought up another connected guy's name, he immediately hung up the f**king phone.

Anyone whose really cued in is going to be paranoid beyond belief and I would imagine these guys talk even to each other about things as little as possible, let alone their barbers, car mechanics etc.

That applies to two/three users here. Max.

It can go either way. How does someone like Chicago, posting on an internet forum, know so much about the Outfit and its structure and its dark secrets from 1960-1990? A lot of the info is not available just anywhere. Yet he knows...was he a street tough?

I was at a local bar with some friends having some beers and started talking to some of the other neighborhood guys and Outfit stuff came up. These guys knew quite a few of the names that have been mentioned in these threads and had stories about them...you'd be surprised at who knows who and what in these neighborhoods. Interesting stuff. And I'm the furthest thing from a street tough lol.

@funkster please excuse both of these "pencil pushers"/fanboys. It's the same thing over & over again with the both of them. Deep down, they wish they knew real gangsters.

Huron you accusing someone else of being a fanboy is hilarious. But maybe i am wrong and you are a real gangster because anyone from chicago can pretty much be considered connected right?

And don't get me wrong, not saying these guys were connected at all...just saying people know their neighborhoods and and know of the people in them.

It is funny I had this problem with so many different posters. Guys on here with over a post a day or 1000 in less than 6 months calling someones else and keyboard warrior, or bookworm fa***t, or whatever.

Hey Huron, which suburb are you from again?

And why don't you say who you know.

You don't need to name names. Just say "I know two made guys." Or "I know three cousins of made guys." etc.

Oh so your the guy who gets to tell everyone how often and how much people are allowed to post on here???

Where was this bar located? City or burbs?

I don't want names of bars just interested in area.

Thanks.

The Patch. I live about a block and a half from Grand and Ogden and the bar fairly close.

No I wasn't saying anything like that, I think its funny that those posters are the same ones who tell people who get their info from the net to get a life, I argee with what your saying about people being in the know and then chatting about it on the net.

Chicago/The Don's uncle was somebody, if I remember correctly. I'd never really heard of him. If I remember correctly from ANP there was some debate if he was actually 'made.'

Chuckie English?

Lol no thats who he lied about his father being when he used the handle "chicago". Supposedly his uncle is joe lombardi.

Sarcasm. Supposedly is the key word though lol.

Lol ya, hard to tell over the internet sometimes.

The only difference is he never claimed that on ANP. He was outed and in fact went ballistic over it, and other things, and was eventually thrown off the site.

I don't know the guy from Adam, nor do I want to, and I don't care who his relatives were, but he did know a ton about the Outfit. Him, Fosco and a few of the other extremely knowledgable posters were on the same page for most things for a really long time.

That site was hilarious in its heyday.

Oh, pipe down you whiny little shrimp. You've got a fucking henry hill quote as your signature. You're all fanboys basement dwellers who live vicariously through these goomba tough guys from the movies.

Don't try & pass your insecurities off on me. Doesn't work like that. Hell, you're still holding grudge over being clowned on by me like two months ago. For the love of tapdancing judas, let it go!

Agreed. The comments section for awhile was very informative. Has anyone figured out who Black Angelo was?

Still trying to save face for that "the Don" sociopath, eh? Pathetic LOL!

He was not Lombardi's (elmwood park reject) nephew. Again, if we told you who the fuck that shit head really, actually is, you'd slap yourselves even harder than you should have when you were first informed of the earth shattering news that he was in fact NOT the long lost son of Chuckie English (L O L !)

None of it was ever hard to tell either. It was always apparent that he was The Don all along.

Black Angelo was a middle aged gentleman from the Melrose park area that was a bit of an amateur Outfit historian. He was good for banter, even if literacy wasn't necessarily his strong point.

huron youve never clowned me or anybody else here. You do how ever clown your self with every ridicoulous post you make. I have quote from a fucking movie big deal. I have zero insecurities about myself. Get over yourself dude.

Huron, who is Jack Indurante? And any idea wtf Fosco is talking about with his Jack and Lou posts? lol

I said I don't know who he is. I just said what happened on ANP, which *is* what happened on ANP.

If you are so desperate to be the recognized Internet Outfit authority tough guy, why don't you post something interesting. Start a thread.

The reason people think you're a goofball is because your entire schtick seems to be picking "Internet fights" to try to establish that you are the cappo di tutti capi of the Internet.

Unfortunately for you, you are the only one in the running. No one else gives a s**t.

^^^ fucking guy tries to act like he knew all along but huron only knows what chitown tells him.

Lol I don't think so. You're still trying to justify the Don's clown actions. You're having trouble admitting that you're a dumbass that got duped repeatedly. Are you that prideful? I mean, you lurk on internet forums & fawn over dusty old goomba hard asses. I'd assume that pride & self respect have been tossed to the curb a long, long time ago. No offense, just being honest here. Your Outfit obsession is fairly notorious.

And yes, you do care. Very much. You spent months defending "the Don" (LOL), typing paragraph after paragraph, praising his name. Condemning anyone that had the audacity to talk down on him. And then when it was revealed that you, in fact, were the shit head, you had trouble admitting it. And still do.

I post here a few times a week. I'm not the one that cares lol. Again, don't try & turn this around. That type of shit may work on juveniles like nickyeyes & cookcounty, but it wont with me.

"Pencil pushing fanboys" is a perfectly apt description of you & IvyLeague.

I'll be awaiting the typically redundant "no you're the fanboy and a dick And I don't care you do" crybaby response. Per usual.

Dellacrotchet, pipe down, rearrange your panties, and go get me a fuckin beer. You're the definition of an insecure LCN fanboy. Clown

@funkster Indurante is a strip club owner/drug dealer that has palled around (gotten taken advantage of) with Outfit types for years. They frequented his titty bars when they were active on Mannheim rd.

The Jack & Lou's deal is exactly as it sounds.

Whoa take it easy tough guy, we dont want any problems from you and the rest of the non existent grand ave crew

Blah blah blah. Just like in real life, no one cares what you think.

And for the record I actually grew up next to a gangster family in another state, all of whom are either dead or in jail now.

I'm "notorious" huh? Does that mean you're having private conversations about me with other posters?

Guess what that makes you; A total loser.

For the dipshits who believed Chicago was Chuckie English' "son" and defended him continuously even despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, get a clue: no one on this board takes you seriously and most of us are still laughing .

Yeah, you guys are real badasses because you knew "The Don" in real life.

I mean, what could be more awesome than that.

Why the fuck are you even mentioning me? I had no problem with you and never defended Chicago.

Right on time, another fucking idiot. Let me give you a clue that no one has taken you seriously before or after this whole chicago bullshit that besides you and huron absolutley no one gives a shit about. Everyone has been laughing at you all along.

This thread has gotten pretty lame and no one is even talking about the Outfit, "e-lliances" notwithstanding. I personally have no interest in sniping here back and forth for no reason, so I'll offer my absence as a peace pipe and check back when there is something interesting to talk about, if that ever happens.

Peace!

^^^ agreed, im done with these fucking idiots

Looks like this thread has outlived its usefulness.