Federal investigators accused U.S. Justice Department superiors of derailing the last, best chance of solving the Jimmy Hoffa disappearance in 1978 by refusing to force former President Richard Nixon and Teamsters Union President Frank Fitzsimmons to testify before a Detroit grand jury, newly obtained FBI records show.
It's remarkable how Webster has moved from high level appointment to appointment. The SEC caper took the cake. The President of NAMBLA has more credibility than Webster.
at least the Pres of NAMBLA can probally stay awake through an entire meeting
Could Webster be the greatest innocent since Voltaire's Candide?
Or perhaps he is just always in the wrong place at the wrong time ........ DC's own real life Chauncy Gardner from the Peter Sellers movie Being There
The teamsters under Webster's watchful eye lost $160 million in net reserves while taking in some $110 million per year in dues money
now Webster's going to watch the SEC watchdogs???
He's DC's greatest empty suit ..... another Chancy (Being There) Gardner ......
He ran Teamster Bosses Ron Carey and Jackie Presser
there was no question that he was placed on the teamster board to run the Carey operation just as he had Presser
Agent Duncan Wainwright was still Webster's handmaiden when Webster came on board
he's a fixer and a cover up artist
the Whitey Burger stuff in Boston was just like Carey & Presser
you latch on to an informant and let him continue to commit crime to keep him in place and take out his adversaries
in the union it was called having an FBI rabbi
Has everyone forgotten about the Whitey Burger scandal already?
I've never been a fan of sleepy Willie Webster:
William Hedgcock Webster
Director FBI 1978 - 1987; Director CIA 1987 -1991; Teamster Review Board 1992 - ???
Older than dirt and, more prevalent in the beltway these days, is the insider's insider William Webster.
Justice for hire, the Honorable William Webster never met a Bench, Board of Directors, panel or commission he didn't like to sit upon, until Ken Starr asked him to oversee a probe into alleged payments to key Whitewater witness David Hale several years ago.
Such pious concerns about conflict have never been "The Judge's" hallmark. For example, he currently sits on the boards of the anti-union Pinkerton Security Agency and Anheuser Busch -- whose workers are members of the Teamsters Union -- while sitting on the Teamsters 'Independent' Review Board (IRB) -- with Fred Lacey former judge in the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, who in the early '90's "investigated"/cleaned up Webster's CIA's role in diverting money to Saddam Hussein's military machine (BNL/Iraqgate).
Once, when asked by a reporter if he believed he could conduct an independent investigation of the BNL/CIA matter, Webster's Teamster IRB mate Lacey responded, "I think 'independence' is best defined as a subjective thing".
The third member of the IRB was 50 something Rhodes Scholar and United Mine Worker's General Counsel, Grant Crandall.
No stranger to conflict himself, this Clinton/Oxford alumnus also represented Mine Workers president, Richard Trumpka, who has taken the 5th in the stalled Ron Carey/DNC Teamster embezzlement's glacially paced grand jury 'investigation'.
Perhaps its just pure serendipity, but the creator of the tactical squad which went hunting on Ruby Ridge has made a career of just 'Being There' and the press has allowed him to drift through one disaster after another with impunity.
Here now, in less than perfect chronological order, for your contribution and comment are some of William Webster's greatest hits: .......
February 23, 1978 ~ confirmed by senate as FBI Director 90-0
1978 - 1987 ~ Director FBI
1987 - 1991 ~ Director CIA
1992 ~ Hired to investigate claims that Martin Marietta subjected its workers to dangerous practices at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
1992 ~ Hired to investigate LAPD response to riots after Rodney King verdict.
1992 ~ Hired to a panel overseeing the Teamsters Union, the 'Independent' Review Board (IRB).
1981-1988 ~ Ran the CISPES investigation, "an aberration among thousands of counterintelligence and counter-terrorist investigations the FBI conducts annually"......Senate Intelligence Committee
1994-1988 ~ Ran Teamster Boss Jackie Presser as a FBI informant.
April 1985-February 1994 ~ Aldrich Ames ~ Spied under Webster's nose while he was Director of FBI & CIA.
When questioned by Congress after losing 200 Agents in Eastern Europe in little over a year, Webster said, "No one told me."
October 22, 1987 ` Ron Carey changes the last will of Ann Morgan, an 'incapacitated person', with UPS attorney Joseph Previte, making himself beneficiary.
November 20, 1987 ` Ron Carey gets a grant of transactional immunity from then US Attorney SDNY, Rudy Giuliani, in a union embezzlement scheme.
July 1988 ~ just eight months later Giuliani RICO's the Teamster Union -- the union consents to a government run (which Carey out of nowhere wins) election and the 'Independent' Review Board (IRB) ~ Webster - Lacey - Crandall
1986 ~ Webster fires FBI agent Robert Frederick after the New York Times exposes Jackie Presser as an FBI informant. Frederick is indicted for perjury but the charges are dropped because FBI Agent Paul Minor 'forgot' to advise Frederick of his rights before confessing to a cover up in order to protect Presser.
Frederick's fellow Agents collected over 90K for him after Webster fired him. - Oliver B. (Buck) Revell (the Director's #1 man) ran the ALPRO (Presser) operation.
When questioned by Congress, Webster said, "No one told me."
October 5, 1986 ~ Gene Hasenfus - guns rusting in the jungle.
1982 ~ Los Alamos scientist Wen ho Lee phones a colleague suspected of spying and discusses the case...FBI intercept
1998 ~ Appointed by Clinton to investigate alleged taxpayer abuse by the IRS.
1995 ~ Appointed to a panel reviewing White House security after a small plane crashed into the White House lawn.
1993 ~ Hired by General Motors Corp. to investigate where GM officials shredded documents relating to truck fires.
1985 ~ The Year of The Spy -- Thomas Cavanaugh, Jonathan Pollard, Larry Wu Tai Chin, Randy Miles Jeffries, Bruce Ott, Allan Davies, William Pelton and the Walkers. .......
Might FOB Wrinkled Willie have some modicum of responsibility for the instant security crisis? It certainly spans his watch
"Webster's CIA's role in diverting money to Saddam Hussein's military machine (BNL/Iraqgate)." .
After graduating from Amherst in 1947 and then Washington U. Law, he practiced law in St.Louis until 1960, when he was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri.
In 1961 he returned to private practice, until 1970 when he was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
A great favorite of the beer baron Auggie Busch, Webster was appointed to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in 1973.
Read his Op-Ed piece in the August 11, 1998 New York Times, "Congress Exceeds Its Reach".
You can then understand why he likes to be called "The Judge" -- because no one would call him "Your Honor". .........
Work in progress:::::
Please help fill in the blanks
February 23, 1978 ~ confirmed by Senate as FBI Director 90-0
1978 - 1987 ~ Director FBI
1987 - 1991 ~ Director CIA
1992 ~ Hired to investigate claims that Martin Marietta subjected its workers to dangerous practices at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
~ Hired to investigate LAPD response to riots after Rodney King verdict.
~ Appointed to a panel overseeing the Teamsters union, the Independent Review Board.
1981-1988 ~ Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES investigation) "an aberration among thousands of counterintelligence and counterterrorist investigations the FBI conducts annually" ............ Senate Intelligence Committee
1974 - 1988 ~ Jackie Presser FBI informant
October 22, 1987 ~ Ron Carey changes Ann Morgan's will, with UPS attorney Joseph Previte, making himself beneficiary.
November 20, 1987 ~ Ron Carey gets transactional immunity agreement from US Attorney SDNY Rudy Giuliani.
July 1988 ~ Eight months later Giuliani RICO's the Teamsters Union.
1986 ~ Webster fires Robert Frederick - indicted for perjury, but charges were dropped because agent Paul Minor 'forgot' to advise Frederick of his rights before confessing to lying and trying to cover up in order to protect Presser. Fellow agents collect 90 K for Frederick - Oliver B. (Buck) Revell ran ALPRO (Presser) operation.
October 5, 1986 ~ Gene Hasenfus - Guns rusting in the jungle
1982 ~ Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee phones a colleague suspected of spying and discusses the case.
1984 ~ Mr. Lee fails polygraph test but passes on second try.
October 24, 1987 ~ AFL-CIO readmits the Teamsters Union
Aldrich Ames ???
He has told Congress, "No one told me." about:
Jackie Presser
200 lost agents in Eastern Europe/Aldrich Ames
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Thanks for the info on Webster. Let's hope he's had his last public appointment -- except to rendezvous with sparky following a walk down the green mile.
After the difficulty there just was appointing Webster to that audit board, I doubt if there are any further appointments in his future.
Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano: The FBI identified Provenzano as a former mob crew leader in the Genovese crime family. Hoffa was to meet Provenzano at the Machus Red Fox restaurant the day he vanished. Provenzano never appeared at the meeting, but allegedly masterminded the Hoffa killing, according to the FBI. Provenzano was convicted in 1978 of murder and extortion in a case unrelated to the Hoffa disappearance and died in prison in 1988 at age 71.
Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone: Detroit mobster Giacalone allegedly arranged the Machus Red Fox meeting. He denied any involvement in the disappearance. In 1976, Giacalone was convicted of income tax evasion and served 10 years in prison. In 1996, he was charged with racketeering, but died last February at age 82 before the case was tried.
Salvatore "Sally Bugs" Briguglio: Briguglio was one of the FBI's prime suspects in the killing of Hoffa. Briguglio was killed March 21, 1978, as he walked on a street in New York's Little Italy district. Two assassins shot Briguglio, 48, multiple times in the head and chest. No one was arrested for the slaying.
Gabriel Briguglio: He was a brother of Salvatore and a former vice-president of a New Jersey Teamsters local. The FBI believes he was present when Hoffa was killed, an accusation Gabriel Briguglio denied. He was paroled in 1983 after he served seven years in prison for racketeering and extortion.
Thomas Andretta: The FBI believes he witnessed Hoffa's killing. A Teamsters business agent, Andretta denied any knowledge of the Hoffa disappearance. He later was sentenced to a 20-year prison term on a racketeering conviction.
