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This 3 page paper considers the question of reciprocal influence between organized crime and politics, public perception of this influence and the media response. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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politics, public perception of this influence and the media response. Discussion Its proven difficult to find information on the question as stated; using the parameters "influence organized crime" government" has
yielded better results. One of the areas in which organized crime and the government came into conflict was the infiltration of labor by the Mafia, in particular the Teamsters Union.
In the 1950s, reporters from Portland, Oregon had won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing "an underworld plot to use Teamster money and muscle to penetrate their municipal government and monopolize
the rackets."1 Another reporter in Des Moines won the Pulitzer in 1958 for "reporting on Jimmy Hoffa and his Mafia allies and thereby pointing Senator John McClellan and his investigators
to paydirt."2 The reporters were among the first to testify of the involvement of organized crime in the labor unions; after they testified, almost "1,300 other witnesses followed in 250
days of televised hearings that transfixed the nation as mobsters and union racketeers paraded before the senators."3 Congresss response to the disclosure of racketeering "bitterly disappointed" Senator McClellan.4 It
passed the Landrum-Griffin Act in 1959; this act was styled the "working mans bill of rights" but McClellan said union lobbyists "knocked the teeth right out of it."5 For instance,
"union members were denied the right to go to federal court to challenge elections won by violence and fraud; only the Secretary of Labor, whose bureaucracy the unions heavily influenced
through House and Senate labor and appropriations committees, could do so."6 The influence of organized crime on both union membership and Congress itself is clear here; its probable that many
of those legislators who didnt press for the type of bill McClellan clearly wanted owed their election victories to money raised by the very people the law was meant to
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