Instead, the court papers, filed late last month, refer only generally to what prosecutors say is organized crime's long campaign to corrupt the union.

A commission probing the corrupt union even devoted a whole chapter of its report to this man's activities.

(That's been true, sometimes, but who pays the money to corrupt unions?)

Mr. Hoffa wants the federal government to end its 12 years of intensive supervision of the union, once considered the nation's most corrupt.

"Florio repeatedly took campaign money from a corrupt union, whose leaders were linked to organized crime," the narrator says.

During the 1980's the hotel employees' union was considered one of the nation's most corrupt unions.

Ten times Florio has taken campaign money from a corrupt union linked to organized crime.

Will the frightened, poverty-stricken taxi drivers in the play cave in to the corrupt union bosses who don't want them to strike?

"He took on what was then a corrupt union that had to be cleaned up."

One is a mobster involved in theft, loan-sharking, drugs and corrupt unions.