Word: hoffa
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Ruby had been associated with union activities since his Chicago adolescence, when he had been secretary of the Scrap Iron and Junk Handlers Union. He was interrogated but released when the union's founder was discovered murdered. The union ended up in the hands of Hoffa ally Paul Dorfman...
...Senate. These included: six mentions of Donovan picked up by wire taps on the telephone of William Masselli, a reputed member of the Genovese crime family in New York; references to Schiavone Construction in the agency's files on the disappearance of former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa; and reports from FBI informants that Donovan and Schiavone may have had ties to organized crime through the firm's dealings with the Big J Trucking...
...that the FBI's duty was to pass along its findings on Donovan to the White House and not to the Senate. Webster fares little better. In his 1980 memo he stated that Schiavone showed up a number of times in the bureau's files on the Hoffa case, "but that none of these suggested any criminality or organized-crime associations." Webster has since been unable to find these references and, chides the committee, "has no idea where he got that information. The background investigation of a Cabinet nominee demands greater care than this...
...always Jackie Presser's ambition to be president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, even though he had watched several bosses stumble trying to keep both the Government and the gangsters at bay. Two Teamsters' presidents, Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa, went to prison on federal charges of corruption. After his release, Hoffa vanished, presumably rubbed out by the Mob. A third, Roy Williams, resigned the week before last in exchange for remaining free on bail while he appeals his bribery-conspiracy conviction. "That chair isn't a throne," Presser once remarked. "It's an electric...
...Hoffa was presumably murdered in 1975, when he disappeared without a trace. But Hoffa's successor, Frank Fitzsimmons, continued to allow Dorfman to control the union's pension fund, and Dorfman prospered in the murky, billion-dollar swamp of Teamsters loans and land deals. A dapper dresser fond of a round of golf and the company of old cronies, he lived with his wife Lynn in a $750,000 home in the Chicago suburb of Riverwoods...