Word: hoffa
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After six federal trials over a period of seven years, the Justice Department last week caught up with Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa. By a vote of 6 to 1, the Supreme Court upheld Hoffa's 1964 conviction and eight-year sentence for attempted jury fixing. Chances are, relatively few Americans felt much pity for the cynical czar of the nation's big gest union (1,700,000 members), who insists that every man has his price...
...raised his annual salary to $100,000 and approved a succession gimmick aimed at putting him back in the driver's seat as soon as he has served his time (21 years if he wins parole). And some trucking employers are admittedly anxious for his early return; only Hoffa, they are convinced, can keep his men in line. Indeed, Detroit's Teamsters staged a 24-hour walkout last week in protest against the Supreme Court decision, forcing Hoffa to rush home and quell the strike at an emotional meeting. "Return to your jobs!" he cried...
Settling for 23? on the dollar would not normally seem much of a bargain to the Internal Revenue Service. But then it has to consider recent Supreme Court decisions ruling that attorneys' fees in criminal proceedings are taxdeductible. And that certainly applies to Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, 53, who has had some extra large lawyers' bills to pay in appealing his 1964 convictions for conspiracy and fraud and for attempting to suborn a jury. The IRS agreed in a Detroit U.S. tax court that Hoffa could deduct $81,880 in fees from his tax debt...
Past clients include Bobby Baker, Jimmy Hoffa, Joseph McCarthy, Adam Clayton Powell, and Frank Costello. The more obnoxious the client is in society's eyes, the more likely that Williams will take the case in order to demonstrate the constitutional guarantee of counsel to everyone. A full and fair defense is especially necessary for the defendent already condemned by public opinion. Political and moral problems, outside the legal process, threaten the individual rights of such people, he says...
Press v. Privacy. After obscenity, the court faces more redolence: Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa's 1963 conviction (eight years, $10,000) for fixing a 1962 Tennessee jury that acquitted him of the charge of taking a bribe from a trucking company. Hoffa protests that the Justice Department's tampering evidence came from a "spy," planted among his entourage, who violated his right to counsel by attending some of Hoffa's conferences with his attorney. Hoffa Lawyer Z. T. Osborn Jr., who got 3½ years for tampering with another Hoffa jury, protests the Government...