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his immediate successor, Jackie Presser, received a
salary while occupying that position at the Central
Conference. It might be interpreted that these Teamster
monies, $225,000, were supplied to the defendants'
families to sustain them during the Government's case.
As can be seen from this graph, the defendants'
legal fees were whittled down to a mere two percent of
their original costs by Teamster entities before reaching
the defendants. No record can be found or any of the
Teamster organizations questioning the culpability of
the defendants or the defendants' ability to repay these
funds, if they were found to be abusive.
As the graph also illustrates, one of the five
defendants, Joey Lombardo, was unable to make claims
against the Teamsters or receive money as a Teamster
service provider to defray his legal costs. Predictably,
Lombardo's share of the expense costs would have been
20 percent or $800,000. Instead, Lombardo's costs con-
stituted a mere one percent of $45,000. This again
illustrates that the elaborate $4 million defense was
constructed to be paid for by the victim, while radically
minimizing the liability of the accused.
Several years after the trial of United States
vs. Dorfmap, the Central States Benefit Funds agreed to
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