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 "U.S Officials Ending Monitoring of Teamsters' Finances", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, January 10, 2002