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'''''Teamstergate''''' was the name the [[Kentucky]] State [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] Executive Director [[Randy Kammerdiener]] called an apparent money swap between the 1996 [[Bill Clinton]] presidential campaign and the [[Ron Carey (labor leader)|Ron Carey]] campaign to be reelected as president of the [[Teamsters|International Brotherhood of Teamsters]].<ref>{{Cite news| first= PATRICK |last=CROWLEY| title = Teamstergate' hits Dems hard| work = The Cincinnati Enquirer| accessdate = 2008-12-13| date = 1998-09-28| url = http://www.enquirer.com/columns/crowley/1998/09/092798pcr.html}}</ref> Carey campaigned on a platform of cleaning up corruption within the Teamsters Union that had forced imposition of federal scrutiny. Nevertheless, Carey was implicated in a money laundering corruption scandal that would revoke his narrow election victory.

The case involved $885,000 given from union general treasury to the [[1996 United States presidential election|1996 Clinton–Gore campaign]] in exchange for the Clinton campaign's contributions to Ron Carey's re-election fund. Carey was running to keep the job of Teamsters union president. The exchange was an illegal swap that later resulted in a federal court's voiding of Carey's slim election victory against now Teamster President [[James P. Hoffa]].

The swap occurred despite the federal government's expenditure of $20 million on federal monitors led by the Clinton administration Justice Department to ensure the union election would be above board. A 1988 lawsuit by the Bush administration was settled in March 1989 with a [[consent decree]] signed by the union and the government that allowed the federal monitors. The lawsuit was brought under the civil provisions of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, known as [[Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act]] (RICO). On November 19, 1999, a federal jury found Teamsters political director [[William W. Hamilton (labor unionist)|William W. Hamilton]] guilty of embezzlement for his part in the deal.

Ron Carey was acquitted in 2001 of charges stemming from the scandal.

==See also==
* [[List of federal political scandals in the United States]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.laborers.org/sun-times_Trumka_1-13-00.html "Trumka Resurfaces, But Will He See A Shadow?"] Columnist [[Robert Novak]], January 13, 2000
*[http://www.laborers.com/WSJ_11-19-97.html "Teamsters President Carey Is Barred From Rerun Election"] Wall Street Journal, November 19, 1997

[[Category:1996 United States presidential election]]
[[Category:Political scandals in the United States]]
[[Category:International Brotherhood of Teamsters]]

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