Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Waiting for Jimmy. Just how long the new alliance will last depends largely on the Teamsters' president, James Riddle Hoffa. Convicted of jury tampering in 1964, Hoffa began serving an eight-year sentence in March 1967. He is eligible for parole in November but faces another five-year prison...
Cleaver dropped from sight in late November, when he was scheduled to return to prison for a parole violation. He is believed to have left the United States that same month after shaving off his beard to alter his appearance. It has since grown back, and he seems to have...
Now it appears that this impressive record may lose some of its sheen. The reasons, reported by LIFE this week following extensive investigation, are two. Rhodes commuted the life sentence of a major Mafia mobster early this year, ostensibly because of age, ill health and good behavior. And for years...
Why Rhodes chose to commute Licavoli's sentence, thus making him eligible for parole for the first time, is a mystery. Governor after governor had turned down Licavoli's pleas for clemency. Rhodes himself had done so in 1963, telling the prisoner: "It is impossible to disassociate your...
On Aug. 18, 1950, a slight, bespectacled electronics engineer who worked on secret U.S. defense contracts was escorted by Mexican policemen across the international bridge at Laredo, Texas. He was immediately arrested by the FBI. Morton Sobell, then 33, had been in Mexico for two months, using a string of...