Former Union Leader allegedly Trafficked Cocaine: Feds

Crain's Chicago Business reports:

At the same time he was the $150,000-a-year president of Teamsters Local 743 — one of the largest unions in the Chicago area — Robert Walston was involved in a cocaine-trafficking scheme, according to a new federal indictment against him.

For at least several months in 2007, Mr. Walston and another man "did conspire . . . to knowingly and intentionally distribute and possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance, namely, 5 kilograms or more of mixtures and substances containing cocaine," according to the indictment returned Jan. 22.

Mr. Walston was head of the South Side-based union — which represents, among others, clerical and blue-collar workers at the University of Chicago and Rush University medical centers — at the time he was allegedly traveling between Chicago and Houston to score drugs, records show.

For information on the Chicago Mob connection to Teamsters Local 743.Here's some more. No word yet from Roland Burris on this one or the subject of Teamsters Local 743.