Hired Truck probe blocked by Hoffa BY TIM NOVAK, STEVE WARMBIR AND ROBERT HERGUTH, Chicago Sun Times
Teamsters President James P. Hoffa's administration blocked his investigators from putting Mayor Daley's scandal-plagued Hired Truck Program and other possible union-related corruption under a microscope, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.
The non-union drivers who are the backbone of the Hired Truck Program were one area of concern of Hoffa's internal corruption unit.
But Hoffa's administration argues there was no need for a union investigation because the FBI already is conducting one and law enforcement is best equipped to handle a probe.