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Anthony Scotto, Ex-Union Leader With Two Sides, Dies

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 8/24/21

Late in Anthony Scotto's 1979 racketeering trial, after the then-president of Local 1814 of the International Longshoremen's Association endured a tough cross-examination, Newsday columnist Murray Kempton declared, standing in the pressroom of the Foley Square Courthouse in Manhattan, "I hope to God justice doesn't prevail."
 

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