Despite concerns from one government official that he might be biased, Joseph DiGenova, the Teamster's appointee to the Independent Review Board, was approved yesterday.
The three-member Independent Review Board was created as the result of a 1989 consent degree that settled a racketeering suit brought by the government against the union. The union gets to choose a member, the government chooses a member, then those two members pick the third representative.
Mary Jo White, the U.S. Attorney in New York, had questioned whether diGenova will be able to remain neutral while serving on the board. DiGenova and his wife, a former federal prosecutor in Detroit, served as co-counsel on a House subcommittee that investigated the failed 1996 election of former Teamsters President Ron Carey. The committee's work was seen by some as sympathetic to Carey's challenger, current Teamsters President James P. Hoffa.
However, after a 10-minute formal hearing Wednesday, Judge Loretta A. Preska swore in the former federal prosecutor. DiGenova will serve a five-year term.
DiGenova is a former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and independent counsel.
The three-member Independent Review Board was created as the result of a 1989 consent degree that settled a racketeering suit brought by the government against the union. The union gets to choose a member, the government chooses a member, then those two members pick the third representative.
Mary Jo White, the U.S. Attorney in New York, had questioned whether diGenova will be able to remain neutral while serving on the board. DiGenova and his wife, a former federal prosecutor in Detroit, served as co-counsel on a House subcommittee that investigated the failed 1996 election of former Teamsters President Ron Carey. The committee's work was seen by some as sympathetic to Carey's challenger, current Teamsters President James P. Hoffa.
However, after a 10-minute formal hearing Wednesday, Judge Loretta A. Preska swore in the former federal prosecutor. DiGenova will serve a five-year term.
DiGenova is a former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and independent counsel.
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