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In his rise from car thief to president of Americas largest labor union, Jackie Presser used every ounce of his street smarts and rough-edged charisma to get ahead. He also had a lot of help along the waynot just from his father, Bill Presser, a Teamster power broker and thrice-convicted labor racketeer, but also from the Mob and the FBI. At the same time that he was taking orders from the Cleveland Mafia and New York crime boss Fat Tony Salerno, Presser was serving as the FBIs top informant on organized crime.
Meticulously researched and dramatically told, Mobbed Up is the story of Pressers precarious balancing act with the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the Justice Department. Drawing on thousands of pages of classified files, James Neff follows the trail of greed, corruption, and hubris all the way to the Nixon and Reagan White Houses, where Bill and Jackie Presser were treated as valued friends. Winner of an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award for best reporting on organized crime, it is a tale too astonishing to be made upand too troubling to be ignored.
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Mobbed Up
Jackie Pressers High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the FBI
James Neff
Image Gallery
Jackie at three.
Faye and Bill Presser on their wedding day, January 15, 1928, seventeen months after Jackies birth.
Bootlegger Louis Friedman, Jackies grandfather.
Theresa Friedman, with sons Allen (left) and Jack, circa 1926.
A Murray Hill murder scene during the Corn Sugar Wars, summer 1930. One of the Porello brothers, responsible for the hit of Big AngeLonardos father, was killed a few steps away. (Cleveland State University Press Archives)
Angelo Lonardo, future acting Mafia boss of Cleveland, on trial for murder after he avenged his fathers assassination, June 1930. (CSU Press Archives)
The Pressers at a family wedding. Jackie is in the front row, right. Bill, standing, is second from right.
The Presser family, shortly before Jackie enlisted. Jackies brother Marvin is at right.
Navy boot camp, 1943. Jackie was 17.
After a year in the Navy, Jackie slimmed down.
Milton Maishe Rockman in a rare public pose at the September 1954 congressional jukebox-rackets hearings in Cleveland. (CSU Press Archives)
Bill Presser develops a faulty memory at the jukebox-rackets hearings. Two months later, the union switches its campaign support to Senator George Bender, who promptly adjourns the investigation. (CSU Press Archives)
Teamster boss N. Louis Babe Triscaro swears to tell the truth at the 1954 jukebox-rackets hearings, then tells the congressmen he knows nothing about his wifes three slag and trucking companies. (CSU Press Archives)
Jackie at the hotel workers union office in 1955, before he is kicked out of office and his uncle Allen burns down the building. (CSU Press Archives)
The don of the Cleveland Mafia for a quarter of a century, John Scalish tries to hide his face at the McClellan hearings, January 1959. His death in 1976 set off a Mob war. (CSU Press Archives)
Loan shark Pete DiGravio, whose assassination in 1968 helped bring Hughes and eventually Jackie into the FBI fold.
Jackies bodyguard and confidant Tony Hughes in 1957, on his way to a heavyweight ranking.
Jackie and Carmen DeLaportilla during the Camelot days. She became his fourth wife.
Bill Presser greets President Nixon at San Clemente the day the Union endorsed him over George McGovern, July 17, 1972. (National Archives, Nixon Project)
Nixon and mob stooge Roy Williams in San Clemente, July 17, 1972. (National Archives, Nixon Project)
Richard Nixon and Teamsters president Frank Fitzsimmons on October 9, 1975, Nixons first public appearance since his exile from the White House. This is nice, Nixon said of the golf trophy. Wheres the union bug? There wasnt one.
Jackies and Fitzsimmons. (CSU Press Archives)
Tony Hughes, Jackie, and Frank Fitzsimmons, mid-1970s.
John Nardi, Teamster vending workers Local 410 president, killed by a car bomb in May 1977.
The Teamsters Joint Council 41 parking lot. Nardis murder scene Nardis last words were It didnt hurt. (CSU Press Archives)
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