Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoffa Indictment Attacked...
WASHINGTON, April 22--Counsel for James R. Hoffa, Midwest boss of the Teamsters Union, opened a full-scale attack today on an indictment charging Hoffa with conspiring to pry secrets from the Senate Rackets Committee...
First, they contended Hoffa was deprivel of his right to a preliminary hearing after his midnight arrest in a Washington hotel March 13; second, that the federal grand jury which returned the indictment was "infected" by "improper publicity" in the case; and finally that count three fails to state an offense...
...Beck and Hoffa are proof that the worker is still a peon to the union, and that the politician is far from a true American in allowing him to be exploited...
Indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington last week: James Riddle Hoffa, 44, a vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, boss of the teamsters' powerful Central Conference, with headquarters in Detroit, and challenger to I.B.T. President Dave Beck. The charges, all based on Hoffa's offer of $18,000 and payment of $3,000 for documents filched from the McClellan committee files (TIME, March 25): 1) bribery, with a possible penalty of three years' imprisonment and a fine of three times the bribe total; 2) conspiracy, five years and $10,000; 3) obstruction...