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The Ron Carey Campaign Investigations (2229 words) |
 | Ron Carey, first elected as General President in 1991, sought a second term. |
| New York Times reports that aides to Ron Carey have told prosecutors, and the Election Officer, that Carey "had general knowledge" of what the Election Officer has termed the "contribution swap schemes," in which IBT money was sent to various groups in return for donations to the Carey campaign. |
| Carey's lack of memory is less believable because he admitted it was rare that he would personally approve expenses, so these were not routine events in a blizzard of approvals," IRB writes. |
| Ron Carey cleared (604 words) |
| NEW YORK--Former Teamsters President Ron Carey was acquitted of all charges in a federal perjury trial here last week, a decision that exposed the frame-up that the government used to force him from the union. |
| Carey’s court victory is also a vindication of the movement to chase Hoffa out of union office and democratize the union. |
| The wrongdoing by Carey’s aides was used as a pretext to oust Carey himself. |
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