Test Fleet would ultimately prove Mr. Hoffa's downfall in 1962 when the Government brought charges in Nashville, where Test Fleet was incorporated, that he was disguising a million dollar bribe from Commercial Carriers, Inc., an auto transport firm, in a conspiracy to violate Taft-Hartley regarding their labor practices, that the million dollar payoff to Mr. Hoffa and Owen Brennan, deceased since 1961, was disguised as a dividend from Test Fleet, of which Mrs. Hoffa owned a half interest while Mrs. Brennan owned the other half-assed part. Mrs. Brennan testified in that case in late 1962 that Test Fleet had ten tractor trucks for trailer haulage which it had leased to Commercial Carriers for a million dollars between 1949 and 1958. In December, 1948, Mr. Hoffa had settled a Teamsters strike at the Commercial Carriers Flint, Mich., terminal, though defense witnesses in the case testified that he had done the firm no favors in the process. They testified that the Teamsters rank-and-file walkout at Commercial Carriers was illegal and that Mr. Hoffa, in ending the strike, had saved their jobs. Test Fleet had been chartered several months later by a Commercial Carriers attorney, the timing of which was a major basis for the Government's contention that the payment to Test Fleet was quid pro quo for the settlement. A former general manager of Commercial Carriers testified that he had guaranteed a loan to put Test Fleet in business. Two lawyers testified that they had advised Mr. Hoffa that Test Fleet did not violate Taft-Hartley—even if the legal issue was whether the receipt by employee agents of funds from employers, except as wages or other specified purposes, violated Taft-Hartley. On December 23, 1962, a mistrial was declared in the case after the jury said that it was hung. The Federal judge, not to be confused with Congressman William E. Miller, who would be Senator Barry Goldwater's 1964 running mate in the presidential election, ordered an investigation into whether there had been attempted jury tampering in the case, with which Mr. Hoffa would later be indicted and on which he would be convicted and sentenced to prison for 8 years in 1964, to have been served consecutively to his five-year sentence for his separate conviction, also in 1964 about five months after the jury tampering conviction, for Teamsters pension fund fraud, a key Government witness in the jury tampering case having been paid informant Ed Partin. Mr. Hoffa would begin serving the sentence in 1967 after affirmance of the jury tampering conviction by the Supreme Court in 1966, from which Chief Justice Earl Warren dissented based on the taint to the case from Mr. Partin's principal part in it, until President Nixon, known to some as Jolly Ol' St. Rebozodickolous, oddly commuted the sentence in the love story to time served just afore Christmas in 1971 on condition that Mr. Hoffa not manage any labor organization for nearly a decade or until what would have been the end of his original sentence in March, 1980—and the rest, as they say... And to all a good night.