Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-04

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casion has been unable to re-
strain his anger.
The Government has rested
its case.
Hoffa Acquittal Denied
Yesterday Mr.. Hoffa's four
courtroom attorneys-including
william E. Bufalino and James
Haggerty, of Detroit--lost a
move for a directed verdict Of
acuuittal and began their ef-
forts to discredit the case pre-
sented by the Government.
Before the Government COM
pleted its evidence here last
week, it called 20 witnesses and
introduced more than 260 sep
arate documents, many of them
painfully complicated. y
Mr.. Bufalino, himself a De-
troit Teamster official, said
about 80 defense witnesses will
be called. He estimates it will
take two weeks for the defense
to present its case.
Defense attorneys say 1t is
undecided whether Mr.. Hoffa
will testify.
Charged in Conspiracy
He is charged with o con-
spiracy to accept a 81 million
payoff from a truck transport
company in return for labor
peace.
An indictment returned by
q Federal grand jury here last
May alleges the TeamSter chief
and the late Owen (Bert) Bren-
man., former Teamster vice
president who died more than
q year ago, received the money
from Commercial Carriers, Inc,
a Detroit auto hauling COM
pany.
A parade Of Government wit
nesses has given testimony de-
signed to support the United
States charges that the money
was paid to Test Fleet Corp.
(later renamed Hobren) a truck
leasing firm set up in Tonnes
isee by Commercial Carriers to
disguise a payoff.
The Government contends
that Commercial established
Test Fleet in Nashville and then
transferred all Of Its stock to
I'M. Hoffa's and Mr.. Brennan's
wives, in their maiden names
Josephine Poszywak MRS. Hof'
fa) and Alice johnson.
Hoffa In Tug-O-War
Once earlier this month Mr.
Hoffa engaged in q tug Of war
with Marshal Elmer Disspayne
in an attempt to wrest from the
marshal some charts that at
torneys sought to introduce In
evidence.
II want to see those charts. +"
Mr.. Hoffa demanded during q
recess.
In another recess incident.
Government Attorney James
Neal was the target Of shouts.
Mr.. Hoffa and his attorneys
complained that Mr.. Neal was
refusing to make some records
available to the defense.
When Mr.. Neal called for the
marshal, Mr.. Hoffa shouted:
Dictator tactics. This Is
worse than the Soviet Union"
One leg tucked underneath
him, Mr.. Hoffa often tits back
in his chair at the defense table
and stares transfixed at the
ceiling. Sometimes he chews or
spectacles.
He seems his best WIN con-
Tronted with the blackboard
Size financial charts rolled into
the courtroom.
They appear to represent 9
challenge to q man who once
boasted that he reads no book
inst contracts"
AT one point marshali
wheeled in q chart purportine
to show financial transaction:
Of Test Fleet.
Mr.. Hoffa sat straight up ir
his chair, slipped on his glasses
and scanned the columns o.
figures.
Quickly he turned to one o.
his lawyers and in disgust de-
clared:
Nah. That's not right"
Associates Guilty
Later that day he learned ir
the courtroom that George Rox
burg, business agent Of Detroi
Local 200, Mr.. Hoffa's hom'
local, pleaded guilty in Fedora
Court in Detroit 10 q five
count indictment charginI
bribery-conspiracy and had re-
signed from the union.
About the same time MI
Hoffa learned also that an
other Transfers member, Olei
Ray Lloyd, was convicted 70
the second time In less than
year on charges growing out o
strike violence. This was Il
Birmingham. Ala. Lloyd wa
conyicted by a jury on charge
OF Conspiracy.
since the Kennedy admins
tration took over less than tw
years ago, Federal indictment
have been returned agains
about so Teamster officials an
members. Many involve Ike
Holfa lieutenants.
ID addition, a number {
grand juries are investigator
Mr.. Hoffa and his associate
throughout the country.
The defense had m q d e off
cial note Of this. arguing thi
the case was prejudiced frol
the start.
Questions have been raise
about the stream Of Teamste
from all over the country, II
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