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1966-10-04

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United States v. Hoffa, 367 F.2d 698 (7th Cir. 1966)

The Seventh Circuit affirmed the convictions of James R. Hoffa and six others for mail and wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the Teamsters Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund.

Date
1966-10-04
Kind
court-opinion
Source
CourtListener (Free Law Project), text of the opinion
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
Nos. 14892-14898 (7th Cir.); 367 F.2d 698
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Opinion of a United States court. Works of the federal judiciary are in the public domain in the United States (17 U.S.C. § 105). The text was read on CourtListener (Free Law Project).

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, decided 4 October 1966, with rehearing denied 28 November 1966 as CourtListener lists it. Judge Swygert dissented. The appeal was from convictions in the Northern District of Illinois on an indictment returned on 4 June 1963, which charged a scheme to defraud the Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund.

The court wrote: “The indictment charged and the proof showed that defendant James R. Hoffa was president of the Teamsters International Union, president of Local 299 of the Teamsters Union in Detroit, and also a trustee of the Teamsters Pension Fund.” According to the indictment, two of the defendants obtained work as agents for people seeking Pension Fund loans “by holding themselves out as being in a specially favored position to obtain Pension Fund loans because of their special relationship with defendant Hoffa,” and inflated loan applications were submitted to the Fund.

The convictions of Hoffa, Benjamin Dranow, Zachary A. Strate, Jr., S. George Burris, Abe I. Weinblatt, Calvin Kovens and Samuel Hyman were affirmed.

itemUnited States v. Hoffa, 349 F.2d 20 (6th Cir. 1965)The Sixth Circuit affirmed the Chattanooga convictions of James R. Hoffa and three others for endeavoring to influence jurors in the 1962 Test Fleet trial. Hoffa was sentenced to four years and a $5,000 fine on each of two counts, consecutively.itemHoffa v. Saxbe, 378 F. Supp. 1221 (D.D.C. 1974)The district court rejected James R. Hoffa's suit against the condition in his 1971 commutation, which barred him from managing a labor organization until 6 March 1980. The opinion recites his entry into Lewisburg penitentiary on 7 March 1967 and his release on 23 December 1971.itemSenate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Central States Pension Fund hearings (1980)Hearings of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, August 25-26 and September 29-30, 1980, on the Labor Department's investigation of the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund, including a staff summary of FBI affidavits on Kansas City and hidden interests in Las Vegas casinos.itemUnited States v. Dorfman, 470 F.2d 246 (2d Cir. 1972)Second Circuit opinion of November 29, 1972 affirming Allen Dorfman's conviction for conspiring to accept a bribe to influence a pension plan, over a 1967 Central States Pension Fund loan to Neisco.