The Nation - News from Aug. 5, 1985

Teamsters President Jackie Presser said “there could be no reason for my life to be in jeopardy” in the wake of reports that he served as an FBI informant about other union bosses and organized crime figures. “I haven’t done anything, and when you don’t do anything, there is no reason to be afraid,” Presser told the Detroit News in a copyrighted interview, his first since the Justice Department dropped an investigation of his alleged involvement in a payroll-padding scandal involving the Cleveland local.