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...From 1948 to 1956, Hoffa listed a total of $60,322 on his federal income tax returns under such vague categories as '"collections." Testified he: "My business associate in Detroit has some horses and he places some bets, and we are fortunate to win some money." Asked whether he had any records of the racehorse winnings, Hoffa said that his betting partner, Teamster Vice President Owen B. Brennan, kept the records. Called to the witness chair, Brennan avoided Hoffa's testimony, refusing to testify for fear of selfincrimination. Growled Chairman McClellan: "Is the taking of the Fifth Amendment...
...heavyweight prizefighter managed by Hoffa's pal Owen Brennan drew $75 a week for two years as a Teamster welfare-fund claims investigator but did no investigating at all, instead he did odd jobs on Brennan's horse farm. The prizefighter's straightforward testimony about his Teamster days (now ended) flatly contradicted what Hoffa told the committee a year ago, and Chairman McClellan said he would ask the Justice Department to investigate the conflict...
...seven months since he elbowed flabby Dave Beck aside and took over as Teamster president, Hoffa has done nothing to clean the ex-convict thugs out of the Teamsters or sever the businesslike connections between his union and the underworld. Said Chairman McClellan to Witness Hoffa: "You have created an impression in the minds of some people that possibly one of the reasons you don't [act against the hoods] is because you are in the same category...
...testimony piled up, the insolent curl that seemed frozen on Hoffa's lips early in the week thawed into a grim straight line. And there was plenty more piling-up to come: the committee put Hoffa on notice that he would have to remain available for "several weeks...
...record to which Michigan's union-backed Democratic Senator Patrick McNamara seemed oblivious this week when he declared in a TV interview that if the Teamsters "really want" Hoffa, "I'll go along with that, because they're all my constituents...