The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Three men who once ran Laborers' International Union Local 1001 -- a union with a history of mob ties that represents Chicago garbage collectors -- are now getting city pensions based on the salaries they got from the union.
There's more:
•Bruno F. Caruso -- a reputed mobster forced to resign from the union's leadership in 2001 -- gets a city pension of $97,205 a year, based on his salary with Local 1001. Caruso is a nephew of the late Ald. Fred Roti (1st), who, according to FBI documents made public only after his death, allegedly was a "made member" of the Chicago Outfit. Caruso was superintendent of pavement repairs when he quit to go to work for the union. Caruso contributed a total of $217,036 toward his city pension. So far, he has collected more than $850,000 since retiring in 1998.
Here's the
Chicago Sun-Times from 2006:
Bruno and "Toots'' Caruso are nephews of Roti. The three were among 47 men identified by the FBI in 1999 as "made'' members of the mob. "Made'' mobsters, according to the report, pledge loyalty to the Outfit "and would carry this oath of commitment and silence to the grave.''
The six layers of editors at the Sun-Times didn't catch a large factual mistake in today's story,
Caruso is a nephew of the late Ald. Fred Roti (1st), who, according to FBI documents made public only after his death, allegedly was a "made member" of the Chicago Outfit.
Alderman Roti was named by the Justice Department on
August 11,1999 as a "made member" of the Chicago Outfit. Alderman Roti died on September 20, 1999.
