Even as Teamsters President James Hoffa fights to remove the union from government oversight, the oversight panel has barred a prominent Teamsters official for corruption.

William Hogan Jr. was once Chicago’s most powerful Teamster. Investigators claim Hogan offered thousands of dollars in kickbacks to officials at the Las Vegas union local if the local would sign a “substandard” contract with Chicago-based Unitd Services Cos., where Hogan’s brother was an official.
A federal judge in New York City must uphold the board’s decision to ban Hogan from the union before it will take effect. Dane Passo, who had been James P. Hoffa’s special personal assistant, was also banned, according to published reports.
Hogan stopped running for the union’s leadership with Hoffa in 1996 because of union investigators’ allegations of nepotism and favoritism within his Chicago local. He retired, but after Hoffa won in 1998, Hogan again became president of the Chicago-area Teamsters Joint Council 25 and held three more union positions.