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...resign. When he declined, Judge Letts fired him. ("You have been disappointing to the court in your failure to recognize your responsibilities and duties.") As Smith's successor, Judge Letts appointed a former FBI man: Bronx-born Terence F. McShane, 32, a federal agent in the 1956 Hoffa wiretap case who later conducted an investigation of the secretary-treasurer of Hoffa's home Local 299 in Detroit. That done, Judge Letts was ready to proceed with the showdown trial late this month of the monitors' civil suit against Hoffa on charges that he misused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Order from the Court | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...Truman Veran) Williams Jr., 26. Williams soon multiplied the commission staff by ten, moved into prominent quarters across the street from the state capitol. He talked the legislature into giving him the power of subpoena, plenty of money for a dreamy assortment of private-eye equipment-long-lens camera, wiretap recorder, pocket mikes, etc.-to sleuth on any citizen suspected of disagreeing with white-supremacy dogma. Finding Georgia too small for his ambition, he got authority to spend taxpayer money publicizing racial conditions all over the U.S. Hammering his stock line that integration of the races is a Communist plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Wrong Target | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9--The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that state-obtained wiretap evidence cannot be used in federal court trials...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Indonesia Seizes Dutch Holdings In Face of Widespreading Riots; Court Rules Against Wiretapping | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

Contacted during a recess in his federal court trial on wiretap charges in New York, Hoffa said the ouster wouldn't weaken the union...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Satellite-Launching Attempt Fails As Vanguard Missile Blows Up; Reds Say Sputnik Rocket in U.S. | 12/7/1957 | See Source »

...Portland's Democratic Mayor Terry Schrunk, an indignant witness before the McClellan committee (TIME, March 18), who had been charged with perjury in denying to a county grand jury that he had taken a gambler's bribe while sheriff. Still ahead: trials on subornation of perjury and wiretap charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Not Guilty | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

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