The Nation - News from Oct. 16, 1986
Former FBI agent Robert S. Friedrick personally orchestrated an arrangement with Teamsters President Jackie Presser to block the union chief’s indictment and then flunked a lie detector test about his involvement with Presser, the federal government said. The U.S. attorney’s office disclosed in court papers that Friedrick was found to have been deceptive in many of his answers concerning Presser when he took the polygraph test last January. As an FBI agent, Friedrick in 1985 blocked the planned federal indictment of Presser by saying the union chief had authorization from the FBI to commit illegal acts, the government has charged.
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