Beck in Check

The pudgy, blustering man who managed and mismanaged millions of Teamster Union dollars during his career as the union's international president was finally hung up last week by $1,900. In a Seattle courtroom a jury of seven men and five women, after deliberating almost nine hours, found Neighbor Dave Beck, 63, guilty of stealing the $1,900 he banked in his own account after the sale of a union-owned Cadillac (maximum sentence: 15 years). Licking his lips as he brushed past newsmen, Millionaire Beck, trapped by his traffic in peanuts, hurried out of court on bond to compare notes with son Dave Jr., already appealing his own conviction last month for pocketing $4,650 from the sale of two other Teamster Caddies.

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