World & Nation
The No. 2 official in the FBI’s Las Vegas field office has refused to testify in two federal investigations of the Teamsters Union on grounds that he might incriminate himself in a related inquiry into how the FBI handled the case of the late Teamsters President Jackie Presser, The Times learned Wednesday.
Oct. 6, 1988
Movies
July 17, 2015
California
California’s bikers have grown more sophisticated in fighting the helmet law. Instead of Hells Angel-style protests, they campaign for friendly candidates and have their own political action committee.
March 7, 1996
Pulp (Channel 7 Sunday at 1 p.m.): Mike Hodges’ 1972 gangster movie pastiche is uneven but fun all the same.
Sept. 4, 1988
The FBI is looking into possible links between an apparent bombing attempt at a federal building in Laguna Niguel and the leader of an anti-tax splinter group of the Posse Comitatus who is charged with making death threats against Internal Revenue Service agents in Nevada, government sources said Wednesday.
March 12, 1987
July 10, 2015
Archives
Two FBI agents who once directed Teamsters President Jackie Presser as a confidential informant have declared in sworn statements that they authorized him to keep mob-related “ghost employees” on his union payroll, fearing he would be killed if he did not.
Feb. 13, 1987
Politics
Veteran state Sen. John F.
Jan. 22, 1986
SKETCHES IN WINTER: A Beijing Postscript by Charles Foran (HarperPerennial: $12; 210 pp.).
July 18, 1993
Thomas Foran, 76, prosecutor in the Chicago Seven conspiracy case of 1969 and 1970.
Aug. 12, 2000