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...result has been that even when Dave Beck made what appears to have been a genuine effort to clean things up when he came in, he ran into such opposition from the locals that, by 1954, he had to abandon the attempt at reform and winning employer's respect through controlling an honest union. But he succeeded, nevertheless in gaining a sort of grudging admiration even from those employers with whom he drove the hardest bargain, admiration which has been increased along the same lines by Hoffa. Admitting that his contracts are so favorable to the unions...
...Tacoma, Wash., pudgy Dave Beck, 64, onetime president of the Teamsters, was convicted of income tax evasion involving $240,000 owed the Federal Government. A jury of eight men and four women deliberated 23 hours, 59 minutes, finally found Beck guilty on six separate counts, were praised by Judge George H. Boldt "on behalf of myself and 170,000,000 odd of my fellow citizens for a service splendidly performed." During a 59-day trial, prosecutors charged that Beck cheated the Bureau of Internal Revenue by pocketing Teamster expense funds when other people paid his bills. Beck, already appealing...
...Beck was remanded to the custody of a U.S. marshal and taken to jail soon after the jury announced its verdict...
...Beck Found Guilty...
TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 19--Dave Beck, millionaire ex-president of the giant Teamsters' Union, was found guilty by a federal court jury today of evading $240,000 in income taxes...