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August 15, 2017
Teamsters Acquitted In 'Top Chef' Extortion Case
Four Massachusetts Teamsters were acquitted Tuesday of trying to strong-arm a "Top Chef" television production into hiring union labor at a picket that turned violent.
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August 14, 2017
Jury 'Not Sure How To Go On' In 'Top Chef' Extortion Case
Jurors considering the fate of four Boston-area Teamsters accused of strong-arming a "Top Chef" TV crew into giving them unnecessary truck-driving work entered their 18th hour of deliberations Monday while suggesting a possible impasse and a lone holdout.
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August 10, 2017
Teamsters Tell Jurors 'Top Chef' Fracas Was Just A Picket
Four Teamsters accused of roughing up a "Top Chef" television crew to get unneeded truck driving work told a federal jury in closing arguments of their extortion trial Thursday that they're innocent because they were just trying to get real jobs.
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August 09, 2017
Judge Tees Up Jury Charge In 'Top Chef' Extortion Case
A Massachusetts federal judge said Wednesday that he would focus a panel of jurors on whether a group of renegade Teamsters tried to force "Top Chef" producers into giving them additional jobs on their set.
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August 08, 2017
Teamsters Rest 'Top Chef' Case Without Witnesses
The federal government closed its evidence Tuesday morning in its extortion trial against four Teamsters accused of strong-arming a "Top Chef" television crew into giving them unneeded truck-driving work, followed immediately by the Teamsters themselves.
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August 07, 2017
'Top Chef' Host Says Teamsters Threatened, 'Terrified' Her
"Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi testified in Boston federal court Monday that she was "terrified" and "petrified" after a Teamster reached into her van and suggested he was going to assault her during a confrontation that prosecutors say was criminal extortion.
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August 04, 2017
Furious Judge Rips Teamsters, Reporter In 'Top Chef' Case
U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock, who is presiding over the trial of four Boston-area Teamsters accused of trying to strong-arm a "Top Chef" television crew into paying them for unneeded work, usually speaks so softly that spectators have to lurch forward on the courtroom benches to hear him.
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August 03, 2017
Slashed Tires, Racial Slurs At 'Top Chef' Picket, Jury Told
A group of Teamsters terrified a "Top Chef" production crew at a rogue picket outside a Massachusetts restaurant, witnesses told a federal jury Thursday, describing a reality television shoot that quickly descended into the surreal.
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August 01, 2017
Teamsters Roughed Up 'Top Chef' Crew, Jury Hears
Four renegade Teamsters tried to strong-arm a "Top Chef" television crew into hiring them for unneeded jobs with threats of physical beatings and economic damage, veering from union activism to criminal extortion, prosecutors told a Boston federal jury in opening statements at trial Tuesday.
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July 31, 2017
'Top Chef' Union Extortion Trial Begins In Boston
The case against four Teamsters who are accused of roughing up a "Top Chef" television crew in an extortion plot began Monday with jury selection in Boston federal court.