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...decade-long duel with the Justice Department, Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, 54, was tried six times and convicted twice, but he managed to avoid imprisonment while his lawyers strung out one appeal after another. Last week, as the Supreme Court turned down Hoffa's appeal of a 1964 jury-tampering conviction for the second time in three months, it looked as if the string had finally run out. Scarcely 48 hours after the court announced its decision, Federal Judge Frank Wilson ordered Hoffa to appear this week in Chattanooga, Tenn., site of the jury-tampering trial, to begin serving...
Hoffa apparently had some doubt too. Less than an hour before the imprisonment order came through, he announced in Baltimore that Teamster General Vice President Frank Fitzsimmons, 58, would take over the 1,800,000-man union in the event of his own "absence." A onetime bus driver and dockworker, the portly Fitzsimmons has an avuncular appearance that belies his 31-year career as a Teamster organizer, mostly with Hoffa's tough home local, No. 299, in Detroit...
...provides a better answer to that question than Edward Bennett Williams, 46, the country's top criminal lawyer. Williams has passionately defended ex-Teamster Boss Dave Beck, Bernard Goldfine and Adam Clayton Powell, to say nothing of assorted Communists, spies and murderers. Williams helped Jimmy Hoffa beat a bribery rap, got Tax Evader Frank Costello out of prison, opened the mails to the peephole magazine Confidential. Happily for moralists, he is also a loser on occasion: he failed to foil Senate censure of the late Joe McCarthy, and last week he lost the case of Bobby Baker...
After six federal trials over a period of seven years, the Justice Department last week caught up with Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa. By a vote of 6 to 1, the Supreme Court upheld Hoffa's 1964 conviction and eight-year sentence for attempted jury fixing. Chances are, relatively few Americans felt much pity for the cynical czar of the nation's big gest union (1,700,000 members), who insists that every man has his price...
Settling for 23? on the dollar would not normally seem much of a bargain to the Internal Revenue Service. But then it has to consider recent Supreme Court decisions ruling that attorneys' fees in criminal proceedings are taxdeductible. And that certainly applies to Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, 53, who has had some extra large lawyers' bills to pay in appealing his 1964 convictions for conspiracy and fraud and for attempting to suborn a jury. The IRS agreed in a Detroit U.S. tax court that Hoffa could deduct $81,880 in fees from his tax debt...