When Chicago police arrested Joey Glimco on his first murder charge, the booking officer gave up counting Joey's previous arrests, just listed them as "innumerable."' Since that day in 1928, Tough Guy Glimco (alias Joseph Glinico, Joseph Glielmi. etc., etc.) has added a lot more arrests to his police record. Yet Joey Glimco, longtime extortion racketeer in Chicago's West Side poultry markets, at age 50 is an official of the U.S.'s biggest and most powerful labor union: James Riddle Hoffa's Teamster Brotherhood (TIME, Aug. 31). in which he is president of Teamster Local 777 (taxi drivers) and boss of the Teamster joint council of Chicago. He has made crime pay exceedingly well. The Chicago Crime Commission estimated his rake-in from all sources—union salaries, business profits, kickbacks, extortion payoffs—at $70,000 a month.
In Washington last week, the three-member board of monitors, set up by Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts to oversee Teamster affairs, confronted President Hoffa with an order to get rid of Joey Glimco. The monitors want Hoffa to suspend Glimco from the presidency of Local 777 and have the local's financial records audited by a reliable firm. Among other things, charged the monitors, Glimco:
¶Spent $124,000 of Local 777's funds defending himself against an extortion indictment.
¶Raked in $2,500 a month in salary kickbacks from Local 777 officers.
¶ Squandered union funds on such off-duty items as a suburban love nest for his mistress and $10,600 in country-club bills for a Local 777 crony.
Whether or not Jimmy Hoffa would comply was another matter; so far, he has managed to avoid carrying out nearly all of the monitors' 54 recommendations.