Word: teamster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa has been on trial in federal court four times in the past five years. The first three trials concluded with two acquittals, one hung jury. Last week in Nashville, Tenn., the defense began presenting its case in No. 4-and the proceedings were enlivened by a bit of gunplay...
...present charge against Hoffa is that he and another Teamster official accepted more than $1,000,000 in illegal payments from a Detroit trucking concern. According to the indictment, Detroit's Commercial Carriers, Inc. in 1949 set up a Tennessee firm named Test Fleet. The new outfit leased trucks to Commercial Carriers. All the Test Fleet stock was transferred to Mrs. Hoffa and the wife of Owen ("Bert") Brennan, a Teamster vice president who died in 1961; the two women discreetly used their maiden names of Josephine Poszywak and Alice Johnson...
...Press's Nash ville bureau chief. Silliman Jr. absented himself frequently on extended tours. Ball focused on cutting costs. The paper turned pale and comatose. The Tennessean's pub lisher was probably more embarrassed than pleased when Assistant City Editor John Seigenthaler published a 1956 series on teamster corruption in Tennessee that helped impeach Chattanooga Criminal Court Judge Ralston Schoolfield. As the school segregation issue shook the South, the Tennessean's editorials were models of cautious vapidity. Dispirited staffers drifted away. Seigenthaler quit to work for Bobby Kennedy in Washington...
...attired in grey, Dave Beck, 68, looked downcast as he surrendered to U.S. marshals in Seattle for the start of two concurrent five-year federal prison terms for tax fraud. But there was still a touch of the old bravado in the onetime boss of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. As he boarded an 84-ft. launch near Tacoma that took him four miles across Puget Sound to McNeil Island Penitentiary, he called: "Remember MacArthur, boys! I'll be back." When the turnipy teamster does return, he will face 15 more years for embezzlement of his union...
...that was needed was someone to push him over and make him lie down as dead men should." But Beck did not lie down. In the years since the Senate hearings, he has spent just one night behind bars, meanwhile dwelling on the $160,000 estate he built with Teamster money. Ironically, of all the charges of wholesale corruption brought against him, he stands convicted of two of the most trivial-pocketing $1,900 from the sale of a Teamster-owned Cadillac, and allowing false information to appear on tax statements he neither saw nor signed...