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When FBI agents arrested squat, tough Teamster James Riddle Hoffa in Washington last March, it looked as if the U.S. Government might have an airtight case against him. Jimmy Hoffa, 44, chairman of the Central States Teamster Conference and most powerful of the International Teamsters Union's vice presidents, had blundered thuddingly into a trap set by the Senate's labor-rackets investigating committee. Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy (younger brother of Mas-sachusett's Senator Jack Kennedy) confidently vowed to jump off the Capitol dome if Hoffa wriggled out of the charges brought against...
...Lawyer John Cye Cheasty, wartime naval intelligence officer, went to him with an astonishing story. Jimmy Hoffa, said Cheasty, had offered him $18,000 to get a job with the Senate labor-rackets committee and serve as Hoffa's spy during the investigation into the gamy dealings of Teamster President Dave Beck. Counsel Kennedy and Arkansas' Committee Chairman John L. McClellan quickly arranged a job for Cheasty, and he agreed to help catch Hoffa in a trap. During the next few weeks, with FBI agents lurking in the background, Cheasty passed Hoffa a clutch of committee documents...
Goodbye to Bets. Beaming Jimmy Hoffa announced right there in the courtroom that he was going to call a teamster meeting in Chicago this week to decide his "future activities in the union." It seemed that, with discredited Dave Beck scheduled to bow out in September, Jimmy Hoffa was about ready to run openly for Beck's $50,000-a-year job as president of the nation's biggest labor union (1,400,000 members...
...troubles are far from ended." Ahead of Jimmy loom sessions with the McClellan committee, plus a federal trial on charges of having illegal recording devices attached to telephones in his Detroit headquarters. After Hoffa's acquittal last week, a gloomy committee staffer ventured that a forthcoming investigation of teamster links with New York labor racketeers might lead to new charges against Jimmy. "But don't bet on it," the staffer warned. "Don't ever bet on anything again...
...Committee Chairman Gore nailed these pieces together. Hutcheson and his cronies pleaded that their answers might tend to incriminate them, crowded in under the Fifth Amendment shelter. Even when the committee established that Hutcheson is a member of the same A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council that ousted Teamster Boss Dave Beck for crawling under the Fifth, the finger-drumming witness declined to say whether he had voted for the ouster (he did). Hutcheson, it then became apparent, had his own rationale for personal behavior. Asked if he is familiar with the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s code of ethics, which states that...