ARRANGING PAYMENTS: A CHRONOLOGY OF THE TEAMSTERS FUND-RAISING SCANDAL
Compiled by Jo Craven from various court
documents related to the Teamsters campaign.
Tuesday, November 18, 1997; Page A14
The Washington Post
May 30: Barbara Zack Quindel is appointed to oversee the
1996 Teamsters election, pitting incumbent Ron Carey against James Hoffa.
1996
Early 1996: Carey consultant Martin Davis from the
Washington-based November Group learns that the Teamsters plan to make large contributions
to various Democratic parties.
He decides to try to use these contributions to induce
the Democratic National Committee to raise money for Carey.
After talking with Terry McAuliffe, head of the Clinton
reelection committee, Davis meets with McAuliffe's assistant Laura Hartigan to discuss
raising labor money.
Hartigan discusses the conversation with
Richard Sullivan, the DNC's finance chairman.
Summer: Hartigan and Sullivan meet with
Davis. Davis raises the issue of Sullivan helping to solicit money for Ron Carey from DNC
donors.
July: Jere Nash, the manager of Carey's
campaign and a consultant to the November Group, hires Davis's firm to do $700,000 in
direct mailings for Carey.
Aug. 10: The DNC's Sullivan sends memo
to Davis seeking contributions from the Teamsters to various state Democratic parties. The
figures add up to about $1 million.
Aug. 11: The memo is faxed from Davis to
William Hamilton, the Teamsters official who managed political contributions, bearing a
note that is believed to allude to a swap plan.
September: Davis asks Michael Ansara of Share Consulting for help raise money for Carey. They plan to have
wealthy nonemployers donate money to Carey in exchange for Teamsters contributions to
get-out-the-vote efforts.
Late September: Ansara and Davis agree
to have Ansara's wife, Barbara Arnold, donate $45,000 to the Carey campaign with an
understanding that the money would be reimbursed by the Teamsters.
October: Ansara meets with a fund-raiser
for Citizen Action, a get-out-the-vote group, who agrees to solicit Carey
contributions in return for Teamsters contributions.
Citizen Action sends William Hamilton a
request for $225,000 from the Teamsters. An additional $250,000 is requested a week later.
Oct. 17: Teamsters contribute $85,000 to
National Council of Senior Citizens. Carey approves the contribution. The November Group
is paid $42,500 of that amount and applies funds to direct mail fees of the Carey
campaign.
Oct. 24: Hamilton approves $475,000 in
Teamsters funds to Citizen Action and $175,000 to Project Vote. Carey signs off on these
payments.
Nov. 1: Davis, through
Jere Nash, asks Hamilton to give $150,000 in general treasury funds to the AFL-CIO. Carey
signs off on the payment.
Nov. 4: The AFL-CIO sends $150,000 to
Citizen Action. Most of that money is returned to Davis, who sends a
fraudulent invoice to Citizen Action for work ostensibly done by the November Group.
Nov. 14: Michael Ansara is reimbursed by
Citizen Action, which sends $75,000 to him in payment of a false invoice. The money is
used to reimburse his wife, Barbara Arnold, for Carey contributions.
Nov. 27: Another Barbara Arnold check,
for $50,000, is sent to Carey campaign lawyers in New York.
Fall 1996: Carey calls McAuliffe and
leaves message thanking him for his fund-raising efforts on behalf of the Carey campaign,
according to a Carey adviser.
February: The Teamsters transfer
$100,000 to AFSCME, the state, county and municipal workers union, and Hamilton asks for
$25,000 for the New Party.
Feb. 27: Ballot count final; Carey
received 237,028 votes and Hoffa received 221,110 votes.
August: Quindel throws out election
results and orders a rerun. She later recuses herself, citing a
potential conflict since the Teamsters contributed to the New Party, a political group
with which her husband was involved.
Sept. 18: Nash, Davis and Ansara plead
guilty to felony charges in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Yesterday: Judge Kenneth Conboy
disqualifies Carey from the rerun, saying there was reasonable evidence to show Carey was
fully aware of the fund-raising scheme.
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