While you post an interesting theroy, I wonder if more jail time would have allowed Jimmy to emerge later and jump right back into the driver's seat of the Teamsters.
After all, time had marched forward and the powerful leader was "on ice" behind prison walls. He couldn't keep up his leadership with "dah boys" on the outside. As you know from the movie, Fitz went his own way and didn't bother seeing Jimmy in prison. Also, Jimmy was sprung with only a few months left on his sentence, which made the deal between Fitz and Charles Colson really burn up Jimmy...he coulda been out on his own with no strings attached.
But powerful enemies didn't want that to happen, did they?
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sawarrior
8 years ago
While you post an interesting theroy, I wonder if more jail time would have allowed Jimmy to emerge later and jump right back into the driver's seat of the Teamsters.
After all, time had marched forward and the powerful leader was "on ice" behind prison walls. He couldn't keep up his leadership with "dah boys" on the outside. As you know from the movie, Fitz went his own way and didn't bother seeing Jimmy in prison. Also, Jimmy was sprung with only a few months left on his sentence, which made the deal between Fitz and Charles Colson really burn up Jimmy...he coulda been out on his own with no strings attached.
But powerful enemies didn't want that to happen, did they?
Only a few months left until a possible parole date, not until his sentence was finished. Not the same thing. His sentence was up in 1980.
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