Word: maher
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Hoffa either ignored the board's clean-up recommendations or evaded them by appealing to higher courts-with significant success. He also stalled. The former Hoffa-appointed monitor, Daniel Maher, started skipping meetings. His successor, William ("Buffo") Bufalino, a Hoffa crony and head of a Detroit Teamster local that was described by the Senate rackets committee as "a leech preying on working men and women," started walking out of meetings. Strangely, insurgent-appointed Monitor Lawrence T. Smith was hard to find when meetings were called, and he accused Chairman Martin F. O'Donoghue of being obsessed with "getting...
...while he seemed to be outflanking the monitors successfully. Monitor Chairman Martin F. O'Donoghue, harried by anonymous callers at home and picketed at his office, called meetings, found it all but impossible to round up Monitors Daniel B. Maher, Hoffa's minority member on the board, and Lawrence T. Smith, named by rank-and-file New York Teamsters who had charged that Hoffa's 1957 election was rigged...
When the monitors did meet, O'Donoghue's legal strategy was voted down. Monitor Smith, unaccountably reversing his former stand, accused O'Donoghue of being obsessed with "getting Hoffa." Then last fortnight Monitor Maher announced he would retire because of heart trouble. Hoffa named as his successor Detroit Lawyer William E. Bufalino, president of Teamster Local 985, a jukebox operators' and car washers' union described by the Senate rackets committee as "a leech preying upon workingmen and women to provide personal aggrandizement for Mr. Bufalino and his friends...
...knuckles nomination marked the end of the law's patience. Sternly, U.S. District Judge F. Dickinson Letts, 84, last week reminded Hoffa & Co. that the monitors are merely the court's helpers, that Hoffa must ultimately answer to him. The stocky, white-haired judge refused to accept Maher's resignation, then ordered Monitor Smith to resign. When he declined, Judge Letts fired him. ("You have been disappointing to the court in your failure to recognize your responsibilities and duties.") As Smith's successor, Judge Letts appointed a former FBI man: Bronx-born Terence F. McShane...