New Report: Is Jimmy Hoffa Buried in a Shallow Michigan Grave?
An aging alleged former mobster named Anthony
"Tony" Zerilli says he knows the real story behind the teamster boss'
mysterious disappearance in 1975.
Jimmy Hoffa Death - CoverUps.com
Jimmy Hoffa, president of the Teamster’s Union, disappeared
without a trace on July 30, 1975. Jimmy Hoffa led the teamsters
from 1957 to 1971. From the beginning, he had been instrumental
in unionizing workers and had been the brains and guts behind its
success. It was alleged that he had ties to organized crime. He
admitted that liaisons with the Mob were needed, because they had
the power to disrupt strikes, so deals had to be made with them.
The federal investigators pursued him in the 1950’s & ‘60’s without
much success at first, "charging that his empire thrived on violence,
fraud and misuse of union money."
The Justice Department during the Kennedy Administration
turned up the heat and made the charges stick finally convicting
him in 1964. In 1967, after all his appeals were exhausted he was
sent to federal prison at Lewisburg, PA., convicted on the testimony
of a teamster, Edward Grady Putin who was awaiting trial for a variety
of crimes, and had made a deal with the prosecution. Thus Hoffa
was convicted of fund fraud, jury tampering and conspiracy, along
with teamster Tony "pro" Provenzano, whom Hoffa blamed for drawing
federal interest in the first place to his illegal activities.
Hoffa only served 4 years of his 13 year sentence,
because President Nixon commuted his sentence, with the understanding
that Hoffa wouldn’t resume his office until 1980, which would’ve
been the end of his sentence. This deal supposedly was made between
the White House and Union Vice-President Frank Fitzsimmons, who
was now Hoffa’s rival for power in the Union.
On July 30th, 1975 things did not start off well for
Hoffa, when New Jersey mob leader Tony "jack" Giacalone and Tony
"pro" Provenzano, the same fellow Teamster that had been in prison
with Hoffa stood him up at the luncheon meeting at Machus Red Fox
restaurant in Michigan, that they were supposed to have, which indicates
that Hoffa had fallen out of favor with some rather nasty people,
in the mob and in his own Union. Several hours passed, and Hoffa
called home to see if they left any messages. His last phone call
was to his friend, Louis Linteau. Apparently a car load of men did
finally pick him up, and he was last seen sitting in the back seat,
with several men, leaning forward to talk to the driver. The F.B.I
think that he never left that car alive. His blood and hair were
found in the car he was last seen in.
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