Word: teamster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What burned Bobby was a charge that as Attorney General he had tried to plant in LIFE magazine a derogatory story about Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa at a time when Hoffa was under federal indictment for mail fraud...
...back," he hallooed from the launch that whisked him off to federal pen on Washington's McNeil Island in 1962. Last week, 41 Ibs. lighter, erstwhile Teamster Boss Dave Beck completed 30 months of his five-year term for faking tax returns and put-putted back to civilization. Obviously he had taken McNeil's Eng. Lit. course, "I have returned," pronounced Beck, who plans to indulge his old fancy for real estate and possibly write his memoirs to vindicate his minority view that he is "not guilty, and I hope that if what I'm saying...
...Free Press but not to the News; the maneuver only further antagonized both papers, which bargain together, and Frazee's delegation was stopped by a padlocked pressroom door. Then Jimmy Hoffa put in his unsolicited 2? worth. If the papers could somehow publish without pressmen, said the Teamster boss, the truck drivers would deliver them...
...courts six times-and has been convicted twice -in the last seven years, but none of the others has matched the complexity of the Chicago trial. Six co-defendants and Hoffa were accused, in a 53-page indictment, of mail and wire fraud, fraudulently borrowing $25 million from a Teamster pension fund and siphoning off $1,700,000 of that money for their own use. The money was used to help bail Hoffa out of a failing, mud-fouled retirement project called Sun Valley, near Florida's Cape Kennedy...
Hoffa's other headache is how to keep the control of his 1,700,000-member union. He figures to spend much of the next two years in appeals courts, and there have been noisy but thus far ineffectual rumbles of rebellion from Teamster locals across the U.S. "I think he should be man enough to resign," said Philadelphia's Teamster Vice President John Backhus. "He's done too much damage to the union's reputation." Nevertheless, when the 15-man Teamster executive board meets in two weeks, chances are remote that insurgents will be able...