Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But the union also had just raised its dues, and had given Fitzsimmons complete authority to dispense fat Teamster funds for political campaigns (in addition to giving him a $25,000 raise to $125,000 a year-biggest salary of any U.S. union official). Moreover, Fitzsimmons was a loyal Hoffa...
As a caper picture, The Anderson Tapes displays a slick criminal shrewdness: its paraphernalia and plans are always chillingly plausible. Had the film restricted itself to its own Rififiefdom, it would have remained as airtight as a legit alibi. But Director Sidney Lumet (The Pawnbroker, The Group), who has never...
Hoffa was also convinced by his lawyers that he would have a much better chance to be paroled if he surrendered the presidency. All sorts of people have been angling for his release, offering to make bizarre deals in his behalf. Last December a petition seeking his parole was sent...
Plainly relieved, the Teamster executive board voted unanimously to support Hoffa's choice, who will have no trouble getting elected at the union convention that begins July 5 in Miami Beach. After Hoffa's latest bid for parole was turned down in March, some of the Teamster leadership...
An ardent supporter of Nixon in 1960, Hoffa could be useful to the President if he were released before the 1972 election. Despite his imprisonment, he is still worshiped by the rank-and-file of the Teamsters, which has become the nation's largest union with some 2,000...