Word: hoffa
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...regularly with the agents in Washington, Miami, Cleveland and Las Vegas. They hoped to arrange "targets of exchange"-people that the Government could prosecute instead of themselves or their cronies. These turned out to be Fitzsimmons' enemies. Three whose names occur in the agents' reports were Jimmy Hoffa, the former Teamsters president whom Nixon had just released from prison on condition that he take no part in running the union until 1980; Harold Gibbons, a Hoffa loyalist who was boss of the Teamsters in St. Louis; and Jay Sarno, who had built two Las Vegas casino hotels with...
...finally got a look at the Daley-Dennis reports in 1978, after an anonymous tipster informed the agency that Fitzsimmons and the Pressers had been seen with the IRS agents. The tipster also hinted that the conversations might have had something to do with Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975 and is presumed to have been murdered. The FBI then began an investigation, about six years too late. By then the statute of limitations had expired, so nobody mentioned in the Daley-Dennis reports could be prosecuted anyway...
...presidency of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters may well be the most powerful union post in the U.S., but it has its hazards. Two of the last three Teamster bosses, Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa, were sent to prison on corruption charges. After his release, Hoffa vanished, presumably rubbed out by the Mob. Says Jackie Presser, a Teamster vice president: "That chair isn't a throne, it's an electric chair." His point...
...Hoffa was released from Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary after agreeing to resign as president and seek no other union office. Fitzsimmons, who had in the meantime solidified his power within the Teamsters, became president in his own right. Later Hoffa, who suspected Fitzsimmons of engineering the terms of Hoffa's release for his own ambitions, disavowed the agreement with federal authorities, raising the possibility that he would try to regain the union presidency at the 1976 Teamster convention. He never got the chance: in 1975 Hoffa disappeared, almost certainly murdered, and his body has never been found or the case...
DIED. Frank Fitzsimmons, 73, president of the 2 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters; of cancer; in San Diego. Fitzsimmons, a Detroit truck driver when he joined the Teamsters in 1934, served as business manager and vice president of the chapter headed by Jimmy Hoffa. When Hoffa was jailed on charges of jury tampering, conspiracy and fraud in 1967, Fitzsimmons became caretaker-manager of the union and later president, in 1971 (see BUSINESS...