How Does a Chicago Teamster Boss Elude the Union’s ‘Anti-Corruption’ Squad? Get Hired by the Illinois Governor Blagojevich-A Look at Dan Stefanski

Here's a flashback from May 2005.NRTWC reports:

An April 25 Chicago Sun-Times article with the colorful headline “Mob Issues Raised
About Gov’s Pal” broke the latest story regarding Big Labor-backed Illinois chief executive Rod
Blagojevich’s worrisome habit of putting thuggish union bosses in influential state government
positions.
Authors Robert Herguth and Steve Warmbir cite allegations regarding former Chicago
Teamster official Daniel Stefanski, who landed a top job with the Illinois Department of
Transportation in April 2003, in a report submitted last year by a team of investigators hired by
the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Investigators led by former federal prosecutor Ed Stier found that Stefanski had once
worked in an illegal bookmaking operation with fellow Teamster and reputed mobster Robert
Abbinanti. They also found that, while wielding monopoly-bargaining power over hundreds of
city truck drivers as president of Teamster Local 726, Stefanski had multiple lunch dates with the
late mob bookie Nick “The Stick” LoCoco.
The investigators’ most serious charge is that Stefanski, who headed Local 726 from the
mid-nineties until he accepted his position with the Blagojevich administration, once publicly
offered a $20,000 reward to anyone who could provide the address of a mob informant whom
Organized Crime kingpins reportedly wanted dead.
Stefanski does not deny keeping the company of alleged mobsters

Here's more on Dan Stefanski and Blago.Here's more on Chicago Mob bookmaker Nick "The Stick" Locco.Are you ready for Chicago-style unions? ABC TV Chicago's look at FBI informant Robert Cooley's bookmaking allegations of Robert
Abbinanti and Rod Blagojevich.