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Finally Miller gave up, declared a mistrial-and for the fourth time in five years Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa walked free from a federal trial...
This time the charge was that Hoffa and another Teamster official had violated the Taft-Hartley Law by making $1,008,057 out of a trucking company with which the Teamsters did business. If Hoffa was worried about whether the rap would stick, he certainly managed to conceal his anxiety. During the long wait for the jury, he strutted around the corridors and delivered himself of some cocky, colorful opinions. "These FBI agents," harangued Hoffa, "are all stool pigeons. A bunch of rats and stool pigeons. Give one of them a local with 10,000 members...
...Justice Department's methods, Hoffa claims, "Our phones are tapped and our hotel rooms are bugged. We'd make remarks just to see, and the Government attorneys would know next morning what we'd said. We're building a new $800,000 office building in Detroit, and they come to me and say the whole place is wired and bugged. I say, 'Hell, whaddya expect? Go on and finish the building...
...They can pick up everything you say until you have the suit cleaned.* They go to the school and investigate my kid. He's a good kid, if I do say so. They go around to his friends and say, 'How many suits of clothes has Jim Hoffa got? How much money does he carry around in his pocket?' They gave orders to every airline office in the country-when Hoffa makes a reservation, call the nearest FBI office and give the time he takes off and the time he arrives. You wouldn't believe some...
Cleveland entered its third week without newspapers-even though Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters, who led the walkout Nov. 29, have now negotiated a settlement with both the morning Plain Dealer and the evening Press. Irate at this early surrender, the American Newspaper Guild voted overwhelmingly to continue the strike on its own. replaced the departing Teamster picketers with Guildsmen...