Being that the fleet test case, the trial for which it had been held in Nashville, both when Hoffa was implicated by one of his collaborators , among some information with one of his informants, even though they were the closest, Louisiana teamster Edward Grady Partin, who became his ally, and who went to the FBI with the information that led to Hoffa's conviction.
Hoffa was also convicted of fraud later that same year for misusing the Teamsters' pension fund, in a study conducted in Chicago, and Hoffa had illegally arranged several loans and large pension funds for leading organized crime figures, in which he received a five-year sentence for consecutively executing his bribery sentence.
Kennedy, who had persecuted Hoffa for several years, was overjoyed, but there was a deal, he won something to the detriment of his trial, in which he stepped down as attorney general after Hoffa's second conviction, and was elected to the United States Senate. United in the 1964 election.