Word: hoffa
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When an election protest was filed by John Murphy, president of a Boston Teamsters local and a supporter of Carey's opponent, Jimmy Hoffa Jr., the couple refused to open their financial records to the federal election officer. Further investigation revealed that the Share Group, which was operating phone banks for the Teamsters, had overbilled the union more than $26,000 but was allowed to keep the money. Last week the fbi attempted to question the couple, but their attorney, William Codinha, said they were "out of town." He contends that Arnold made the contributions without Ansara's knowledge because...
Unlike federal campaign laws, however, which are fuzzy in their application and relatively toothless in their remedies, the Teamster election rules are quite clear: evidence of illegal contributions that might have been decisive in an election requires a rerun. Although Carey beat Hoffa by a razor-thin margin and the Arnold contributions may have financed a crucial last-minute mailing, labor experts suspect that the government, which spent as much as $30 million on the closely monitored election, may be reluctant to act on these charges. Which would leave the Teamsters, along with the American taxpayers, mired in business...
...Colonel Robert Carter, who wanted his draft signed. This week Sotheby's will auction off 1,925 autographed TIME covers that Carter collected until he died in 1975. Through pleading letters, well-placed intermediaries and sheer doggedness, Carter tracked down artists, astronauts, athletes and war criminals--everyone from Jimmy Hoffa to Winston Churchill. "After his retirement, he started collecting very aggressively," says Elizabeth Muller of Sotheby's books and manuscripts department. "It was an ingenious way to collect autographs with something that was relatively inexpensive...
...Janet Reno, underscoring the extensive government efforts to stem the tide of the mob, added that "In the last three years, 42 top figures in the La Cosa Nostra, including seven bosses or underbosses have been convicted by federal prosecutors." The indictment did not mention the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, the former Teamsters Union president, believed to have been murdered by the mob. The FBI stated that the Hoffa case remains "an ongoing investigation...
Ellroy sends these three rogue enforcers off on a bizarre fictionalized trek through five years of U.S. history: the pursuit of Hoffa, the Mob's unhappiness over the triumph of Fidel Castro in Cuba and the loss of the Havana casino revenues, the 1960 presidential campaign, the long debacle of the Bay of Pigs. Pete, Kemper and Ward play hair-raising roles in all of this, and much more besides...