Teamsters Cut Ties With Joseph diGenova, Lawyer on Trump’s Team

December 11, 2020, 1:04 AM UTC

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has parted ways with Joseph diGenova, a former federal prosecutor who waded into political controversy as a member of President Donald Trump‘s legal team seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

In a letter Wednesday, Teamsters President James P. Hoffa said he wouldn’t reappoint diGenova to another five-year term as the union’s independent ethics officer, ending his nearly 20-year involvement with the union’s oversight efforts, which began with a probe of Hoffa’s political foe.

Instead, Hoffa selected white-collar attorney Robert Luskin of Paul Hastings ...

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