Federal Presidential Pardon» teamsters http://www.federalpresidentialpardon.com A Study of Noteworthy Presidential Pardons Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:56:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Jimmy Hoffa http://www.federalpresidentialpardon.com/2009/12/01/jimmy-hoffa/ http://www.federalpresidentialpardon.com/2009/12/01/jimmy-hoffa/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:44:29 +0000 Brian J. Zeiger http://federalpresidentialpardon.com/?p=151 In 1964, Hoffa was convicted of bribing a grand juror and received a sentence of 15 years in jail. He appealed. His appeals ran out. In 1967 he was incarcerated. At the time of his conviction he was the president of the teamsters. He handed over the reigns of the teamsters to a Frank Fitzsimmons.

In 1971, Hoffa was given a conditional commutation by Nixon. The condition was that Hoffa not be involved in the teamsters and not be involved with unions for a period of ten years following his release from custody. Hoffa was unhappy with the condition and planned to challenge the condition of the commutation in court.

Before Hoffa got could start his challenge of the condition from Nixon, he went missing in 1975 in Michigan.

Jimmy Hoffa

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