The Nation - News from Jan. 12, 1989

A jury began deliberating charges against a Teamsters Union vice president and a local union official accused of participating in a $700,000 payroll-padding scheme. The labor racketeering and embezzlement trial of Harold Friedman and Anthony Hughes culminated a six-year effort by the Justice and Labor departments to turn up wrongdoing in the Cleveland power base of the late Teamsters international President Jackie Presser, who died in July without ever going on trial. The 12 jurors received instructions from U.S. District Judge George W. White in the morning and deliberated for three hours before adjourning for the day. They were scheduled to resume this morning.