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...Presser gets the Teamsters...
...always Jackie Presser's ambition to be president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, even though he had watched several bosses stumble trying to keep both the Government and the gangsters at bay. Two Teamsters' presidents, Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa, went to prison on federal charges of corruption. After his release, Hoffa vanished, presumably rubbed out by the Mob. A third, Roy Williams, resigned the week before last in exchange for remaining free on bail while he appeals his bribery-conspiracy conviction. "That chair isn't a throne," Presser once remarked. "It's an electric...
...that might seem ancient history. Nixon and Kleindienst, of course, are long since gone from office. Fitzsimmons died in May and William Presser in July. Jackie Presser, however, is very much alive and a powerful ally of another Republican President, Ronald Reagan. As "communications director," or official spokesman, of the Teamsters, Presser helped to swing the union's support to Reagan in the 1980 campaign, and was named a senior labor adviser to one of Reagan's transition teams. Some Teamsters are convinced that he is next in line for the presidency of the union. His accession might...
...beefy and profane Presser characteristically dismisses the allegations with an expletive. He conceded to TIME that he, his father and Fitzsimmons met with the IRS agents once, in early 1972, but added: "I never talked with them again. I'm certain my dad didn't talk to them either, because he never told me that he did. I can't say what Fitz did." Presser added: "So, I'm a fink? Look, I can't be responsible for what's in Government reports." Presser said this in a limousine carrying him to the Executive...
...William Presser was then facing indictment on a charge of embezzlement, and Fitzsimmons would later be implicated by FBI wiretaps in a scheme by Los Angeles mobsters to gain access to union funds. Fitzsimmons and the Pressers, according to the reports, met regularly with the agents in Washington, Miami, Cleveland and Las Vegas. They hoped to arrange "targets of exchange"-people that the Government could prosecute instead of themselves or their cronies. These turned out to be Fitzsimmons' enemies. Three whose names occur in the agents' reports were Jimmy Hoffa, the former Teamsters president whom Nixon had just...