Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eastern Conference, who told how Hoffa tried to get a charter for Johnny...
...natty Sam Goldstein, who also claimed protection under the Fifth Amendment), Tony Ducks showed that he is a Little Caesar among New York's labor racketeers: as a top gun, Tony Ducks snarled out advice to his hoodlums. Item: he ordered one of them to get Jimmy Hoffa, or Hoffa's St. Louis henchman, Harold Gibbons, to settle one of the many New York Teamster problems. The committee heard enough to conclude that Tony Ducks, as well as Mobster Johnny Dio, helped rig the key Teamster election in Joint Council 16, and that he even planned to offer...
...week wound up, 74-year-old Martin Lacey showed up to verify much of the testimony. The chartering of the Teamster phony locals, he said, tears in his eyes, was the result of "fraud and deception . . . a major conspiracy." Lacey was seconded by Teamster Vice President Tom Hickey, Jimmy Hoffa's chief enemy in the Teamsters...
...Hoffa," testified Hickey, "interceded for Mr. Dio. [Mr. Dio] impressed Mr. Hoffa no end." At a high-level meeting with Dio, Hickey and Dave Beck, Hoffa tried to win Beck's agreement to sweep Dio into the Teamsters Union with a Dio-controlled taxicab local, but, said Hickey, A.F.L. Boss George Meany (now president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.) killed the move. In the end Hickey discovered that Hoffa had sneaked Teamster charters through to Dio anyway. Announced Hickey: he will run for the international presidency against Hoffa late next month. Asked John McClellan: "If you should be elected, would...
With its heavy load of evidence, the McClellan-led caravan moved on relentlessly toward Jimmy Hoffa's door. Hoffa's Teamster career would depend directly on how much of the hot cargo he could touch without burning his fingers...