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...filled up some 500 pages of testimony, Tony Doria never erased any of the committee's charges that Doria 1) had both hands deep in the international's till, and 2) helped Dio transfer phony U.A.W.-A.F.L. charters to the Teamsters Union, thus enabling the racketeers to take over New York's powerful central Teamster outfit, Joint Council...
...phony locals that were set up to outvote Joint Council 16 President Martin Lacey in 1956 and elect Hoffa's man, John O'Rourke. Among these was one Armando Simontacci, who testified that, all of a sudden, although he had never been a member of the Teamsters, he was told one day by one of Dio's boys that he had been made president of Teamster Local...
...case to court-and finally, unopposed, took over Joint Council 16 when ailing Martin Lacey dropped out. O'Rourke's surprise: Fifth Amendment pleas on all pertinent questions, even a refusal to admit that he is president of the council or that he is acquainted with other Teamster officials. Asked South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt plaintively: "Is there anything you would like to say to help disincriminate yourself? Is the whole story really that bad?" O'Rourke declined to answer, but after the questioning was over, he stepped outside the Senate caucus room, braced himself...
...Little Caesar among New York's labor racketeers: as a top gun, Tony Ducks snarled out advice to his hoodlums. Item: he ordered one of them to get Jimmy Hoffa, or Hoffa's St. Louis henchman, Harold Gibbons, to settle one of the many New York Teamster problems. The committee heard enough to conclude that Tony Ducks, as well as Mobster Johnny Dio, helped rig the key Teamster election in Joint Council 16, and that he even planned to offer beleaguered President Martin Lacey $10,000 a year to move over and leave the spot for Hoffa...
...Conspiracy. As the week wound up, 74-year-old Martin Lacey showed up to verify much of the testimony. The chartering of the Teamster phony locals, he said, tears in his eyes, was the result of "fraud and deception . . . a major conspiracy." Lacey was seconded by Teamster Vice President Tom Hickey, Jimmy Hoffa's chief enemy in the Teamsters...