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Hoffa Becomes the Union’s President The charges were never proved, however, and in 1957, Hoffa was acquitted of a charge that he had attempted to bribe one of the committee’s investigators. The union’s president, Dave Beck, was convicted on charges of embezzlement and tax evasion, the Teamsters were expelled from the American Federation of Labor, and Hoffa became president in Beck’s place.

The law finally caught up with Jimmy Hoffa in 1964, when a federal investigation led to him being found guilty of extortion, jury tampering, and conspiring to defraud the Teamsters Union’s pension fund. Here, he is led from the court after his conviction.

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