Hoffa Conviction Under Assault

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.
The federal government’s hard-won conviction of Jimmy Hoffa on jury-tampering charges is under
assault 45 years later.

Retired law professor William Tabac (TAY’-bac) of Cleveland wants to prove his theory that the Justice Department - then led by Hoffa’s chief nemesis, Robert Kennedy - used illegal wiretaps and improper testimony to indict the Teamsters leader.

Federal Judge Todd Campbell has set a hearing for Monday in Nashville to consider Tabac’s petition to unseal secret grand jury records to set the historical record straight.

James Neal, the special prosecutor who convicted Hoffa in 1964 in Chattanooga, calls the claims “baloney.“ Four earlier attempts to convict Hoffa of corruption had failed.

Hoffa disappeared in 1975 in Detroit and was declared dead by a court although his body has never been found.

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