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...other questioners dug into Hoffa's strange business deals and his unsavory connections with hoodlums, the tone changed. Wary of the pitfalls of wiretaps whose contents he could not foretell, Hoffa began to get the kind of amnesia that hoods have long resorted to-before the era of the Fifth Amendment. To every implicating question there came an equivocating answer, or a variety of dazzling disclaimers, e.g., "to the best of my recollection," "I just don't remember," "I don't recall." Listening to this performance for hours, even easy-going Irving Ives exploded. Shooting a grumpy...
This was a smashing comedown for James Riddle Hoffa. Only 77 hours earlier he had swaggered into the McClellan hearings like a crowing cock into a coop of capons. At first he had arrogantly demanded permission to edit and change the records of the hearings-a barefaced attempt that would enable him to square his imminent testimony with later established fact. For a while Hoffa had even seemed to be in charge. He led Michigan's bumbling Democratic Senator Pat McNamara, Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater and New York's Ives down a primrose path. There...
Bert Beveridge. Commercial's accountant kept the Test Fleet books for four years at no salary. In eight years the wives got $125,000 in profits for their $4,000 investment. And Commercial Carriers had no trouble at all with Hoffa's union. ¶ Hoffa and Brennan lent Eugene James $2,000 or $2,500 to start operations of a Detroit jukebox local; in return, "Jimmie" James, later accused by a Senate investigation committee of stealing $900,000 from a welfare fund, put Hoffa's and Brennan's wives on the union payroll (using their maiden...
...Hoffa, who continually associated with and employed a gang of ex-convicts, masterminded the chartering of seven phony New York City locals, "knowing these locals to be racket-controlled and devoid of membership." He secretly joined with Johnny Dio, the notorious racketeer, in conspiring to get derogatory information to be used against New York Teamster Vice President Tom Hickey, tried to get Dio a Teamster charter for his taxicab local, even though the legitimate Teamster organization under Hickey was trying to organize the cab drivers...
...Ives: "What are you going to do after you are elected, if you are elected? You have consorted with all of these bums and these criminals and everything else throughout your career practically. Are you going to continue to do that if you are elected president of the international?" Hoffa cleared his throat. "I intend to conduct myself in keeping with respectability when I become president," he said. To clean up the mess, observed Chairman McClellan, peering over the rims of his glasses, "you will have to make a decided change in Hoffa...