Posted on 07/31/2016 12:20:49 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing in Detroit, Michigan. He was last seen alive in a parking lot outside the Machus Red Fox restaurant the previous afternoon. To this day, Hoffa’s fate remains a mystery, although many believe that he was murdered by organized crime figures.
By the time of his disappearance, Hoffa had a long and murky career in union politics. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he became the main focus of government investigations into corruption. In 1962, Hoffa faced misdemeanor charges in Tennessee. He managed to get a mistrial but was convicted two years later for obstruction of justice by tampering with the jury, receiving an eight-year sentence.
In Chicago, Hoffa was tried for fraud in handling Teamster pension funds, convicted, and sentenced to five years in prison. That sentence was commuted by President Richard Nixon in 1971, and despite his criminal record, Hoffa remained a key Teamster figure until his disappearance.
All types of theories have circulated about what became of him. One popular scenario had Hoffa buried beneath a football field at the Meadowlands complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey. One man even claimed credit for his murder in the mid-1980s, saying that he had dumped Hoffa’s body in the Au Sable River after killing him. Authorities have never been able to confirm what really happened to Hoffa. He was declared legally dead in 1982.
AND, “TOOTS” died without talking bout it....
In before that “I can’t say it was Aliens...” guy.
He is out there somewhere playing Gin Rummy with Judge Crater.
I believe one of Joe Biden’s buddies, Frank ‘The Irishman’ Sheeran, made a death bed confession of Hoffa’s murder.
It’s not just the Muslim Brotherhood that is in the building.
love his hot dogs
During the Kennedy years, Jimmy Hoffa was constantly on the evening news badmouthing Bobby the Attorney General. My Dad hated Hoffa, but he despised the Camelot clan even more.
Jimmy’s gone. And there was nuttin’ I could do.
It was revenge for Billy Bass!
It was real greaseball s....!
LOL!!
He was either buried somewhere under the silverdome, or was tossed into one of the furnaces in the foundry at Pontiac motors. Just the speculation from us locals at the time.
He’s dead, Jim!
His remains being supposedly roasted reminds me of a good Hawaii 5-0 episode.
“I Heard You Paint Houses” is a terrific read. The story lines up perfectly with the whispers and gossip I heard growing up in north Jersey.
“The irshman” says Hoffa was cremated after getting two in the head.
Well they tore that stadium down, so who knows where he is now.
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