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231 Acknowledgments Many people, some of them participants in the events examined in this book, have generously assisted us in establishing an accurate historical record of this most remarkable litigation. The book could not have been written without their cooperation. Over the years, several NYU law students made important contributions to the research leading up to this book. The chapter on U.S. v. IBT in Busting the Mob: United States v. Cosa Nostra (NYU Press, 1994) was prepared with the assistance of Christopher Panarella and Jay Worthington III. A few years later, Coleen Friel and Robert Radick, my coauthors on Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime (NYU Press, 1998), did a good deal of work on labor racketeering generally, including on the Teamsters Union. In 2005, Ryan Alford and I coauthored an article titled “The Teamsters’ Rocky Road to Recovery: The Demise of Project RISE.” More recently, Dimitri Portnoi and I published two law review articles, one on U.S. v. IBT’s disciplinary prong and the other on its election-reform prong. Kerry Cooperman, a Criminal Justice Center fellow, worked full-time on the book from October 1, 2009, until we delivered the manuscript on November 8, 2010. He is, in every respect, the coauthor of this volume. I am ever appreciative to Dean Richard Revesz, who provides constant support and encouragement and who made Kerry’s fellowship possible. Thanks, too, to the D’Agostino-Greenberg Faculty Research Fund. Finally, during the past year, we received valuable research assistance from Elizabeth Dondlinger, Daniel Friedman, and Shira Peleg. James B. Jacobs NYU School of Law This page intentionally left blank ...

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