Word: extortionate
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Because of the long standing of shakedowns and violence in the teamsters, the members are not as much surprised as annoyed. They have tended to line up behind the leaders who brought them through the depression and crises of organization, and the employers who have found the teamsters a solid...
¶ In 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...
¶ Hoffa's good friend Judge Joseph A. Gillis of Detroit's recorders court, received $100 a week for 13 weeks as "adviser" for a Teamster TV program, got an extra $6,200 for his re-election campaign. Later, the judge presided over Teamster extortion trials.
From the refusal of a dozen-odd union officials, i.e., hoodlums, to testify, from bits and pieces of testimony from frightened victims, from facts pieced together by committee investigators, a solid picture emerged: racketeers have cut a slice of Chicago's restaurant unions and intend, unless balked, to expand...
* The younger DeKoning was also charged with extortion (extracting kickbacks from builders), but he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of coercion, drew a one-year suspended sentence.