Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brushes with courts, congressional committees, ethical practices committees and assorted reformers, Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa has earned a reputation as a thoroughly bad egg. But, curiously, even some of his critics pay him at least one grudging compliment: despite his many faults, they say, Jimmy Hoffa always takes good care of his Teamsters. Last week a federal grand jury in Florida leveled charges against Hoffa that, if proved, should smash forever the notion that he cares a hoot about the welfare of his union's members...
After examining evidence supplied by agents of the Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service and the Post Of fice Department, the federal grand jury indicted Hoffa and two other men on twelve counts, charged them with misusing money from the Teamster treasury. According to the indictment, Hoffa, Henry Lower, former president of Detroit's Automobile Drivers and Demonstrators Local Union No. 376, and Robert E. McCarthy Jr., former branch manager of Detroit's Bank of the Commonwealth, took $500,000 out of the treasuries of the Teamster organizations in Detroit and deposited the money in a non-interest...
...convicted. Jimmy Hoffa could be fined as much as $1,000 and sentenced to five years on each of the twelve counts in a place that would at least be high, dry and habitable...
...there was the ticklish problem of Brother Bobby, 35. The Presidentelect wanted him as his U.S. Attorney General-and knew there would be an outcry against it. Jack Kennedy thinks crime needs major attention-not only juvenile delinquency but also labor racketeering (with particular reference to Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa). He also wants a good, hard look at the federal regulatory agencies, and feels that Bobby would make an able crime-busting investigator. But both brothers knew that there would be a fuss; Jack Kennedy argued that it would blow over. In private conversations he indicated a willingness to take...
Emboldened by his victory, Hoffa last week asked the Appeals Court for permission to call a Teamsters convention early next year. Order of business: to re-elect Hoffa as full-fledged president and thus extinguish the board of monitors. In fact, the monitors were headless and unable to function, and resourceful Jimmy Hoffa was riding high and wide, planted more firmly than ever in the driver's seat of the nation's biggest union...