Teamstergate was the name the Kentucky State Republican Party Executive Director Randy Kammerdiener called an apparent money swap between the 1996 Bill Clinton presidential campaign and the Ron Carey campaign to be reelected as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
[1] Carey campaigned on a platform of cleaning up corruption within the Teamsters Union that had forced imposition of federal scrutiny.
The exchange was an illegal swap that later resulted in a federal court's voiding of Carey's slim election victory against now Teamster President James P. Hoffa.
A 1988 lawsuit by the Bush administration was settled in March 1989 with a consent decree signed by the union and the government that allowed the federal monitors.
On November 19, 1999, a federal jury found Teamsters political director William W. Hamilton guilty of embezzlement for his part in the deal.