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Convicted Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa last week braced himself before U.S. District Judge Frank Wilson in Chattanooga and prepared to take it on the chin. He got it. Wilson slugged Hoffa with a sentence of eight years in prison and a $10,000 fine for trying to bribe a jury that was hearing conspiracy charges against...
After the verdict, Hoffa still talked tough. "Of course I'll appeal," he snapped to newsmen. "What do you think?" According to Hoffa, the whole thing was "a railroad job" and a "farce of American justice...
...Jail. As for his professional future, he added: "You can rest assured of one thing. The entire membership of the Teamsters Union is behind Hoffa in this fight. The wages, working conditions, health, the welfare and the pensions, the things we have got for them. This is what they want, and this is why they are all behind Hoffa in this...
...quite. Hoffa's conviction could well mean the end of his labor career...
There are plenty of dissident Teamsters, along with some ambitious Hoffa underlings, who are eager to take over Jimmy's job if he goes to jail. They will, of course, have to wait a while; Hoffa almost certainly can drag out his appeals for a long time. Meanwhile, he has another appointment in federal court-this one in Chicago, where he and seven other men will go on trial April 27 on charges of using the mails and wires fraudulently to make more than $20 million in loans from a Teamsters pension fund, and diverting...