"I am inviting you to a duck dinner," a gluttonous comic-strip character named J. Wellington Wimpy used to say. "You bring the duck."
Last week the St. Louis Post-Dispatch uncovered a Wimpy-like scheme thought up by tough, well-tailored Harold Gibbons, boss of Teamster Local 688 (9,000 members) and idea man for Teamster Czar Jimmy Hoffa. A free spender who ran through $63,000 in hotel tabs and other expenses in three years, Gibbons has set up a Local 688 charitable foundation to channel money to the United Fund and other St. Louis charities. Where is the money coming from? As new Local...