He was arrested in 1967 and sentenced to 13 years, occurring in the mid-1971 years he resigned as union president as part of a pardon agreement with President Richard Nixon, in which he was released later that year.
Being that spreading rumors that he created and the fact that he secretly spread rumors towards various allies and some enemies, in which although barred from union activities until 1980, he used this to his advantage.
That money that they paid to maintain the activities, they were committed in law, came with the maintenance of several mechanisms to maintain the commitment of several directives directed from the inside out, with Hoffa, in the hope of regaining support and returning to the leadership IBT, tried in vain to overturn this order, and he had several nominations, and forwarding several times.