Word: lewisburg
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...Lewisburg...
...Hoffa was released from Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary after agreeing to resign as president and seek no other union office. Fitzsimmons, who had in the meantime solidified his power within the Teamsters, became president in his own right. Later Hoffa, who suspected Fitzsimmons of engineering the terms of Hoffa's release for his own ambitions, disavowed the agreement with federal authorities, raising the possibility that he would try to regain the union presidency at the 1976 Teamster convention. He never got the chance: in 1975 Hoffa disappeared, almost certainly murdered, and his body has never been found or the case...
...Lewisburg...