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...That three important Teamster officials-Frank Fitzsimmons, then president, William Presser, then boss of Ohio's Teamsters, and his son Jackie-met regularly with the IRS agents between 1972 and 1974. The trio allegedly supplied information about their foes in the union, in the hope of persuading the Government to prosecute these enemies rather than themselves...
...Teamsters may well be the most powerful union post in the U.S., but it has its hazards. Two of the last three Teamster bosses, Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa, were sent to prison on corruption charges. After his release, Hoffa vanished, presumably rubbed out by the Mob. Says Jackie Presser, a Teamster vice president: "That chair isn't a throne, it's an electric chair." His point...
...what a band they have been. In the inner circle is Shapiro, son of Lithuanian immigrants (Father was a pants presser, Mother a sweatshop garment worker), who got a law degree on loans from the University of Minnesota, and says, "I've always wanted to be sure that I didn't take more from the system than I was putting back." There is Shapiro's friend Reg Jones, a British-born intellectual, who has been similarly motivated to repay the society in which he climbed to become chairman of General Electric. And Citicorp's Walter Wriston...
City Councilor Mary Ellen Presser described the ordinance last summer as an "effort to maintain the diversity of our neighborhoods...
...disappearance), Jimmy Hoffa Jr. (a Detroit labor lawyer outsider, waiting for his father to float to the top), Ron Carey (a rare, honest Teamster local president in New York), Allen Dorfman (who made millions from his insurance monopoly with the Teamsters, then helped loot the pension funds), Jackie Presser (Cleveland Teamster boss, jockeying to succeed Fitzsimmons), Harold Gibbons (progressive St. Louis Teamster leader, who Brill says could have turned the union around if he hadn't sold out to fast cars and women), and two pseudonymous rank'n'filers...