Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Files and folders tucked in his arm, Detroit Labor Lawyer George S. (for Stephen) Fitzgerald, 56, strolled into the McClellan committee's high-ceilinged hearing room last week, as he has most days since the committee began to grill Teamster President James Riddle Hoffa and half a dozen Fitzgerald-represented Hoffa lieutenants. But this time the beet-faced, bulge-bellied barrister plopped himself not in the customary attorney's seat but in the red-leathered witness chair. For two days Witness Fitzgerald (without counsel) angrily denied that he had been furtive or unethical in carrying out sometimes strange...
...Wichita's Payne Ratner, 61, onetime Republican Governor of Kansas now in trouble with the McClellan committee (TIME, Aug. 25), used his political contacts with considerable skill to head off a House Labor Subcommittee investigation of Jimmy Hoffa...
Watch the Watchers. No lawyer has done more yeoman service for Hoffa than George Fitzgerald, a onetime Wayne County (Detroit) crime-busting prosecutor, onetime Michigan Democratic national committeeman, onetime defeated candidate for lieutenant governor (who got a $43,000 Teamster donation to his campaign chest). When the Internal Revenue Service bird-dogged Hoffa's tax returns, Fitzgerald suggested that Jimmy's accountant "get rid of" Hoffa's net-worth statement. When a Washington jury panel was called for Hoffa's bribery trial (TIME, July 29, 1957), Fitzgerald hired an investigator to investigate the jurors. Similarly, while...
...profit, despite the fact that the State Health Department refuses to approve its water facilities. The hearing over, he climbed from the witness chair to prepare for a return appearance this week in his old role as counsel. Fitzgerald's client of the week: Old Pal James Riddle Hoffa, who once informed his buddy: "You're only my mouthpiece. I'll tell you when to talk...
...long kept his gunbarrel eyes fixed on personal power. He armed himself with courses at the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, organized Chicago schoolteachers, then gravitated to St. Louis to stitch a handful of loose-knit locals into a Gibbons whole. When this was gathered into the Teamster fold, Hoffa and Gibbons formed an alliance under which Hoffa is the muscleman and Gibbons the strategist. "Gibbons," Jimmy once said in undisguised admiration, "there are some men in Detroit who dislike me-but those fellows back there in St. Louis actually hate you." Hand in hand with Hoffa, Prince Hal rose...