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Vendetta

Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa
Jan 12, 2018dissymissylessy rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
' Edward Grady Partin, a Louisiana Teamsters official with a long rap sheet, turned on Hoffa in 1962 to get out of jail. His testimony in 1964 in Chattanooga convicted Hoffa, capping RFK's seven year quest to put Hoffa in prison.' ' Hoffa's lawyer was William Bufalino, of Detroit.' 'Bobby called McGeorge Bundy and told him to move JFK's confidential files across the street to the national security staff offices at the Old Executive Office Building and keep them under guard" "It did not take long before the smothering sorrow from Jack's death would deaden Robert Kennedy. But, before that occurred, he asked his top investigator, Mr. Sheridan, to go to Dallas to see what he could find. He called Mr. Draznin about the Outfit, Chicago's branch of Organized Crime. Draznin spent the rest of 1963 chasing leads....' " ' They feel they're above the law, RFK said. ' They feel they can fix judges and juries. Mr. Hoffa has said every man has his price. This country can't survive if you have someone like him operating...All of our lives are too intricately interwoven with this union to sit passively by and allow the Teamsters under Mr. Hoffa's leadership to create such a superpower in this country---a power greater than the people and greater than the government....Unless something is done, this country is not going to be controlled by the people but is going to be controlled by Johnny Dio and Jimmy Hoffa and 'Tony Ducks' Corallo." Ragano, also lawyer for Santos Trafficante was present for a meeting between them and Carlos Marcello, when Hoffa asked the Mob Bosses to hit Kennedy. Other sources have Hoffa as the Bagman for the operation. "Most troubling is that investigations were opened into three lawyers who did work for Hoffa: Jacques Schiffer of New York, William Buffalino of Detroit, and Morris Schenker of Saint Louis. Specifically, the Get Hoffa squad targeted Hoffa's attorneys with IRS investigations, which could be seen as crossing a line into harassment and interfering with his right to counsel." " The seemingly spontaneous outpouring of enthusiasm for Stevenson was in large part paid for with Teamsters Union cash." " The spectacle was engineered by Dore Schary, a former movie studio president." "Hoffa's answers put Goldwater at ease. At lunch breaks that day and during the three more days of Hoffa's testimony, Goldwater and other senators made friendly visits to Hoffa at the witness table."