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Ex-New York Teamster Boss Pleads Guilty to Corruption

Teamster President James P. HoffaAnthony Rumore treated union members as though they were personal servants. He's now likely to be serving some prison time in the near future. Rumore, former longtime president of the Scarsdale, N.Y.-based International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 812 and Teamster District Joint Council 16, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on February 11 to making a false statement related to his coercion of various rank-and-file members to perform free labor for him. He initially had pleaded not guilty following his December 2007 arrest for extortion and embezzlement.

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