Dave Beck

Dave Beck ( born June 16, 1894 in Stockton, California, † December 26, 1993 in Seattle ) was 1952-1957 president of the American trade union International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

His main achievement was the advancement of the expansion of the " Teamsters " on the west coast of the United States, particularly in Los Angeles.

In 1957 he had to a committee of inquiry of the Senate filters ( " Anti- Racketeering Committee " ), declined to answer the questions about one hundred and had to vacate his presidential post at the " Teamsters ".

Vice President Jimmy Hoffa became his successor at the " Teamsters " and at the end of the year, Beck was sentenced to three years because he had embezzled U.S. $ 1,900 in union funds. He served his sentence in the state prison of Washington in 1959 was followed by a conviction for tax evasion and he had to go to prison again in 1962

He was released early in 1964, but in the same year his successor Jimmy Hoffa was convicted and was serving from 1967 to 1971 is now also a prison sentence because he had funds that were actually intended for the Pension Fund (Central States Pension Fund) misused. Meanwhile, however, had Frank Fitzsimmons, who had in turn been Vice under Hoffa, a "deal " with President Richard Nixon, whom he is said to have organized with the help of the Cosa Nostra a million donation for his campaign negotiated.

1971 Dave Beck was finally pardoned and Hoffa early release, but had to give up his office for ten years, so now Frank Fitzsimmons 1973 official president could be " Teamster ", which he had been since 1967, virtually as a proxy already.

Dave Beck, she survived all - Hoffa disappeared without a trace in 1975, Fitzsimmons died in 1981 from cancer - and died at the age of 99 years.