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Four dollars for 20 minutes is cheap. Two corporate dropouts, Glenn Partin and Richard Rogers, founded At Your Service last year in Winter Park, Fla. They are typical of the growing number of entrepreneurs who will perform any service within their expertise, for anywhere between $25 and $50 an hour. They chauffeur people to airports, return video tapes, cater parties. "I can pick up the phone and ask them to do anything," says Debbie Findura, 35, a part- time real estate agent who has called them to fix a light bulb that broke off in the socket, remove a live...
...target of the most intense pressure was Edward Grady Partin, the Baton Rouge Teamster official who had provided the most damning testimony at the jury-tampering trial. Partin had been having his own troubles with the law and seemed vulnerable. He was variously approached with offers of money and protection if he would help Hoffa and threats of further prosecution if he would not. Until Richard Nixon took office in 1968, Partin was relatively safe. But old and rather dubious criminal charges against him were revived when the Republicans took over the Justice Department. By then Hoffa's appeals...
...names. Probably no one has worked for him harder than William Loeb, archconservative publisher of the coincidentally titled Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, which once received a $2,000,000 loan from the Teamsters' pension fund. Only last month the Union Leader broke a murky story that Edward Partin, the Louisiana Teamster whose testimony helped convict Hoffa of jury tampering, had repudiated what he said in court. But there has been no confirmation of the story from either the Justice Department or Partin...
...bribe two of his prospective jurors. Though the judge dismissed the two jurors, that trial eventually ended in a hung jury. Hoffa was next tried on the jury-fixing charge in Chattanooga in 1964. And that time, the Government's star witness was none other than Ed ward Partin, a trusted member of Hoffa's Nashville entourage. The Government had freed Partin from a Louisiana jail in 1962, shielded him from assorted indictments (embezzling, kidnaping, manslaughter), and off he went to Nashville to get the goods on Hoffa...
Largely as a result of what Partin reported that Hoffa had said about his juror-buying efforts back in 1962, the Chattanooga jury convicted Hoffa and three aides. Thus the Supreme Court faced a key question: Did the Government so violate Hoffa's constitutional rights by planting a spy in his "quarters and councils" that Partin's evidence should have been suppressed...