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...Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations last week added to the Teamster boss's woes; it released a report charging that Williams has ties to organized crime and is under the "complete domination" of Kansas City reputed Mob Boss Nick Civella. The report called the new Teamster chief "an organized crime mole operating at senior levels of the Teamsters Union." It also cited evidence that Williams had been involved in a scheme to receive cash skimmed from Las Vegas casinos. The subcommittee asked the Labor Department to investigate Williams' suitability for the Teamster's job and to seek...
...Teamster power rolls...
With those defiant words, issued at his union's 1976 convention in Las Vegas, Teamster Boss Frank E. Fitzsimmons underscored the brass-knuckles philosophy of union management that ruled supreme during his decade-long tenure as president of the U.S.'s largest trade union. Fitzsimmons' death last week in La Jolla, Calif, of lung cancer at age 73 makes room at the top of the 78-year-old International Brotherhood of Teamsters; the succession is not clear. But there seems little prospect that the union will change very much from what it was under the bluff...
Before entering prison, however, Hoffa persuaded delegates to the union's 1966 convention to elect Fitzsimmons to the newly created post of general vice president, to watch over day-to-day Teamster affairs in the boss's absence. Fitzsimmons had worked for Hoffa in various union posts since 1934 and was considered little more than...
...Hoffa was released from Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary after agreeing to resign as president and seek no other union office. Fitzsimmons, who had in the meantime solidified his power within the Teamsters, became president in his own right. Later Hoffa, who suspected Fitzsimmons of engineering the terms of Hoffa's release for his own ambitions, disavowed the agreement with federal authorities, raising the possibility that he would try to regain the union presidency at the 1976 Teamster convention. He never got the chance: in 1975 Hoffa disappeared, almost certainly murdered, and his body has never been found or the case...