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...Worth federal prison, serving a three-year sentence for embezzling $165,000 as a nonworking "ghost employee" of Teamsters Union Local 507 in Cleveland, and nursing a powerful grievance. He was only "the fall guy," Friedman protested. The real culprit, he said, was Local 507's secretary-treasurer, Jackie Presser, who happens to be Friedman's nephew as well as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the nation's largest labor union, with 2 million members...
Friedman's attorneys have requested a new trial in U.S. District Court in Akron, contending that their client's defense was hampered when federal prosecutors withheld important evidence about Presser's role as an FBI informant on Teamsters-related crimes. In a surprising announcement last week, the Justice Department said it would rather dismiss all charges against Friedman than release sensitive documents on Presser's FBI ties. If Judge Sam Bell orders a new trial for Friedman this week, the convicted felon will be allowed to go free...
...union (current membership: 1.8 million) during the past quarter-century. Three- Dave Beck, Jimmy Hoffa and Roy Williams - were convicted of federal crimes. Now there is an argument within the Justice Department about whether prosecutors should continue to urge a fed eral grand jury in Cleveland to indict Jackie Presser, who succeeded Williams as president in 1983. The charge would be that as secretary-treasurer of Cleveland's Local 507, a post he still holds, Presser signed checks making large payments of union funds to "ghost employees" who did no work. Presser's uncle, Allen Friedman, already...
Last week, however, the Los Angeles Times reported that since the 1970s, Presser has been passing information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation about Teamsters-related matters. TIME has learned independently that he has provided tips about other officials in his union to the FBI at secret meetings in Washington, Cleveland and San Francisco. Presser has previously been cited as a Government informer, notably in reports by two Internal Revenue Service agents...
...informant, or to have their relationship documented at a trial, many FBI men would like to see the case quietly dropped. Officials of the Justice Department's organized crime strike force, which is already presenting to the grand jury information turned up by the Labor Department, argue that Presser turned informer precisely to divert possible prosecution...