"There is another 'Central States' -- the Midwest Pension Plan sponsored by the Central States Joint Board ... [and] it's fully funded.... [U]nlike the Central States/Teamsters mob connections which ... resulted in such a corrupt management of their funds that the union was stripped of its ability to control those funds in 1982, the Central States Joint Board seems to have suffered no ill effects and may even have seen unexpected benefits: because pension funds were (partially) kept at the bank ($16 out of $93 million), its assumed asset return was 6% per year in 1999 and for six years thereafter, considerably lower than the average rate used that year, 7.2% (or, at median, 7%)."  MORE >>