Even though Hoffa was in debt to him, he grew too much, but forgot who put him there, and in an exacerbated exchange of opinions, as much as he had secret meetings and negotiations, in which this affair resulted from an earlier matter.
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.