Meese and Jackie Presser
President Reagan’s major labor leader supporter, Jackie Presser, it has been revealed, acted “without criminal intent” in the payroll-padding scheme with alleged mob figures involving his (Presser’s) Teamsters Local 507 in Cleveland. It was done with FBI permission, and Presser claims he acted as an informer to help root out the culprits and corruption.
This should place him in line for a Freedom Medal, a series by Garry Trudeau, and an explanation to the media and its readers by prolific letter writer, Stephen S. Trott, chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, on how “we have sent a message.”
VAL RODRIGUEZ
Signal Hill
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