Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blatant junketing and his spoiler's role in upsetting arduously achieved compromises. To this woeful record, two investigatory panels in recent months added evidence of payroll irregularities and misappropriation of congressional travel funds. To top it all off, he was unable to enter his home state, thanks to jail sentences imposed by New York courts for civil and criminal contempt...
...ordered Hoffa to appear this week in Chattanooga, Tenn., site of the jury-tampering trial, to begin serving an eight-year prison term. Though Hoffa's resourceful lawyers were expected to seek still another delay, even they were losing heart. Asked if he could keep Jimmy out of jail much longer, one of them replied: "I doubt...
Fitzsimmons' first job will be to negotiate a new contract with the nation's trucking industry before the present one expires on March 31. It would be the first major trucking contract negotiated without Hoffa since 1958, when former President Dave Beck was jailed for embezzling union funds and Jimmy replaced him. It could be a long way from the last. In addition to his eight-year sentence for jury tampering, Hoffa faces a five-year jail term for trying to steal more than $1,000,000 in Teamster pension funds, a conviction that is still being appealed...
...when his home was fire-bombed last year. One man, Sam H. Bowers Jr., 42, Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was named in both indictments. With the exception of Bowers, none of the men could be sentenced to more than ten years in jail...
...Supreme Court. Neither could the identification testimony of the victim, since she admitted that she knew he had confessed when she fingered him. But there was still plenty of evidence left-the most damaging being the testimony of Miranda's common-law wife. "When I visited him in jail," she said, "he admitted to me that he had kidnaped the girl and roped her up, then took her into the desert and raped her." The jury convicted the 26-year-old former truck driver after an hour and 23 minutes of deliberation. He is still to be sentenced; last...