Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entered Borges' Labyrinth, turning pages like so many processed bits of the shin bone of the late, great Jimmy Hoffa, then I came to the end of a chapter...
Jackie Presser, union leader. The Teamsters president would be a great choice if he can keep out of jail in the next four months. Harvard's ongoing labor dispute with its clerical and technical workers would be resolved before you could say "Jimmy Hoffa." Also, Presser, who was borne in a sedan chair over the heads of delegates at the most recent Teamsters' convention, could easily handle the pomp and circumstance that comes with the position...
...long as he was in prison for parole violations, but after he was released in 1979 Galante was mowed down during an alfresco lunch in the backyard of a Brooklyn restaurant. Other information provided by Dellacroce gave the FBI leads on the still unsolved murder of Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa and helped break major narcotics cases, including the so-called Pizza Connection case against 22 U.S. and Sicilian mobsters for heroin trafficking...
...Nick Civella, boss of the Kansas City Mafia for about 30 years. In return, Civella paid him $1,500 a month until Williams was elected Teamsters president in 1981. Although Williams said he did favors for Civella at the direction of his "superiors," including the late Teamsters Bosses Jimmy Hoffa and Frank Fitzsimmons, he described Civella, who died of lung cancer in 1983, as "a very personal friend." Civella, said Williams, "was a deep thinker. He assisted me in my career, and I provided some help...
Five men have headed the nation's largest union (current membership: 1.8 million) during the past quarter-century. Three- Dave Beck, Jimmy Hoffa and Roy Williams - were convicted of federal crimes. Now there is an argument within the Justice Department about whether prosecutors should continue to urge a fed eral grand jury in Cleveland to indict Jackie Presser, who succeeded Williams as president in 1983. The charge would be that as secretary-treasurer of Cleveland's Local 507, a post he still holds, Presser signed checks making large payments of union funds to "ghost employees...