Presser, 2 Aides Plead Innocent
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CLEVELAND —
Teamsters Union President Jackie Presser and two associates pleaded innocent today to charges that they embezzled more than $700,000 from the union in a scheme to pay “ghost” employees at Presser’s home local.
At a morning arraignment before a federal magistrate, Presser, Teamsters Vice President Harold Friedman and Anthony Hughes, an officer of Teamsters Local 507, all pleaded innocent to charges of racketeering and embezzlement.
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