Citing several steps taken by the union to ensure financial integrity, the government is withdrawing a federal monitor placed at the union in 1997 after federal officials found that aides to Ron Carey had misused money in his re-election campaign. Still in existence is a consent decree that the union signed with federal prosecutors in 1989, allowing intensive supervision by government investigators to prevent corruption.
See Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, January 10, 2002