It has to be considered damned unusual that no other union was ever investigated. - Jimmy Hoffa

Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia.