Presser Has Surgery to Catch Blood Clots

LAKEWOOD, Ohio — Teamsters President Jackie Presser, stricken with brain cancer and hospitalized with a lung clot, had a clot-catching screen implanted in a vein below his kidneys, a hospital spokesman said Friday.

Presser’s vital signs were good after the surgery Thursday, Lakewood Hospital spokesman David Hopcraf said.

The 61-year-old labor leader was hospitalized just hours after the government filed a lawsuit Tuesday in New York to break the Mafia’s alleged domination of the 1.6-million-member Teamsters.