Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Somewhere," complained Defense Attorney Maurice Walsh, in what was probably the most unsurprising disclosure of the century, "somebody wants to get Hoffa awfully bad." As everybody knows, that somebody is Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and lately Bobby has been doing right well. Last March a federal court in Chattanooga convicted Teamster Boss James R. Hoffa of jury tampering, fined him $10,000 and sentenced him to eight years in prison. Hoffa was freed on appeal, but he had barely enough time to pick up a change of socks before hustling off to Chicago for another trial. When that...
...Hoffa has been tried in federal courts six times-and has been convicted twice -in the last seven years, but none of the others has matched the complexity of the Chicago trial. Six co-defendants and Hoffa were accused, in a 53-page indictment, of mail and wire fraud, fraudulently borrowing $25 million from a Teamster pension fund and siphoning off $1,700,000 of that money for their own use. The money was used to help bail Hoffa out of a failing, mud-fouled retirement project called Sun Valley, near Florida's Cape Kennedy...
...Hoffa is certain to appeal his conviction, but in the meantime he has other problems. Such as money. In the last few years, the Teamsters have spent perhaps $1,000,000 defending their beleaguered boss, but in May a move was launched to make Hoffa pay his own legal bills. Hoffa huffed that he would pay "out of my own pocket," but that takes some mighty deep pockets, even with his $75,000-a-year salary and his other well stocked resourses. Tran scripts of the Chicago testimony alone may cost...
...James Hoffa, 51, has been on trial in federal court six times in the past six years, and the fees on that kind of action mount up. Until recently, his Teamsters Union footed the bills. But last month Jimmy got the boot instead when a group of unmatey Teamsters sued to keep him from using union funds. Though he plans to fight the suit, Hoffa sadly says that he is selling stocks, bonds, "what amounts to all my savings," to pay costs estimated at $1,000,000 so far this year. "I've got to earn the money somehow...
Some of the short descriptions are amusing. (Bobby Kennedy is termed an "avowed enemy of James R. Hoffa"). But even brevity is no excuse for such barbarities as the note which says Sargent Shriver "Insists that intellectuals should have a role in American life." And is it fair to say that Richard Nixon thinks the "U.S. goal must be free Cuba, free Soviet Union, free China"? Surely he has not abandoned the oppressed peoples of Eastern Europe or Tierra del Fuego...