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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Detroit. Hoffa helped Herman Kierdorf get a parole from a prison term for armed robbery, hired him as a Teamster organizer. Hoffa also found a job as a Teamster business agent for Herman's ex-convict nephew Frank, who then set about shaking down small businessmen in Flint, Mich. He was fatally burned last year while setting fire to a Flint dry-cleaning establishment (asked by the McClellan committee to name some of the hoodlums he had got rid of since becoming Teamster president, Hoffa had the gall to list the late Frank Kierdorf). Other ex-convict business agents...
...Hoffa's 1948-56 income tax returns, the committee found $60.322 reported under such vague headings as "miscellaneous income" and "wagering." He explained that his friend Bert Brennan placed racetrack bets for him and always showed a yearly profit. Invited by the committee to explain his system, Brennan took the Fifth Amendment...
Committee investigators tracked down many loans made to Jimmy Hoffa, but found remarkably little evidence of repayments. Several recipients of Teamster loans showed their gratitude by lending Hoffa money or showing excessive kindness to his buddies. Teamster Lawyer George Fitzgerald got the Michigan Conference of Teamsters Welfare Fund to loan $1,000,000 to a realtor who paid Fitzgerald a $15,750 "finder...
Hoffa, the committee found, has been involved in many business undertakings, including two summer camps, oil leases, a cattle farm, intricate real-estate deals, and various trucking ventures in which he got generous help from trucking-company owners with whom he negotiated as a labor leader. The most profitable trucking deal, as far as the committee investigators could trace, was Test Fleet, Inc., set up for Hoffa by a big Midwest trucking firm, Commercial Carriers Co. Commercial Carriers had some trouble with striking Teamster drivers in Flint. Mich., and Hoffa threw his weight into the dispute in favor...
...children, hold on to a sapling with his other hand and straighten "like a flag on a flagpole." Then, as he let go, the mountain crashed down around them in an avalanche of rocks, shattered trees and earth. Next day only Irene Bennett and Phillip were found alive in the stream bed, their clothes blown off, their bodies bleeding and bruised after one of the U.S.'s strongest earthquakes...