Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thawed Curl. Despite Hoffa's studied forgetfulness and witnesses' fright, the committee added some gamy paragraphs to the malodorous Hoffa record.* According to committee documents and testimony...
...construction firm owned by Hoffa front men used $235,000 in Teamster welfare funds as working capital...
...From 1948 to 1956, Hoffa listed a total of $60,322 on his federal income tax returns under such vague categories as '"collections." Testified he: "My business associate in Detroit has some horses and he places some bets, and we are fortunate to win some money." Asked whether he had any records of the racehorse winnings, Hoffa said that his betting partner, Teamster Vice President Owen B. Brennan, kept the records. Called to the witness chair, Brennan avoided Hoffa's testimony, refusing to testify for fear of selfincrimination. Growled Chairman McClellan: "Is the taking of the Fifth Amendment...
...heavyweight prizefighter managed by Hoffa's pal Owen Brennan drew $75 a week for two years as a Teamster welfare-fund claims investigator but did no investigating at all, instead he did odd jobs on Brennan's horse farm. The prizefighter's straightforward testimony about his Teamster days (now ended) flatly contradicted what Hoffa told the committee a year ago, and Chairman McClellan said he would ask the Justice Department to investigate the conflict...
...seven months since he elbowed flabby Dave Beck aside and took over as Teamster president, Hoffa has done nothing to clean the ex-convict thugs out of the Teamsters or sever the businesslike connections between his union and the underworld. Said Chairman McClellan to Witness Hoffa: "You have created an impression in the minds of some people that possibly one of the reasons you don't [act against the hoods] is because you are in the same category...