The Independent Rev. Bd. (IRB) recommended that NYC's top Teamster official be disciplined for allowing an ex-Teamsters boss speak at a union seminar, even though he was forced to resign from the union due to charges of embezzlement.
The IRB was formed in 1989 with broad powers of investigation over the Intl. Bhd. of Teamsters and its affiliates, and continues its work under the supervision of U.S. Dist. Judge Loretta A. Preska (S.D.NY, H.W. Bush). On Oct. 17, the IRB ruled that Joint Council 16 president Anthony Rumore wrongly allowed a predecessor, Barry Feinstein, to speak at a council education seminar in Fla. in Feb. Feinstein resigned from the Teamsters union for life in April 1993, after U.S. Dist. Judge David Edelstein refused to throw out IRB charges that Feinstein embezzled nearly $400,000 from the union. Feinstein reportedly spent the stolen funds on three trips to China and the rental and furnishing of a penthouse apt. in Manhattan, among other things.
Anthony 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 
