The Nation - News from July 31, 1985

Two Justice Department officials flew to Cleveland to explain to a federal grand jury there why the federal investigation of Teamsters President Jackie Presser has been dropped. David Margolis, who heads the organized crime section, and Assistant FBI Director Floyd I. Clarke, head of the bureau’s criminal investigation division, made the trip as part of an effort to end the nearly three-year-old grand jury investigation of payroll padding at Teamsters Local 507 in Cleveland, Justice Department sources said. The decision to drop the case was based on the belated understanding by federal prosecutors that Presser had a “source” relationship with the FBI, they said.