Posted on 05/30/2006 10:41:16 AM PDT by floridaobserver
The FBI is wrapping up its two-week search of a suburban Detroit horse farm after finding no trace of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa's remains, a local prosecutor said Tuesday.
Oakland County Prosecutor David Gorcyca told The Associated Press he was informed by Bloomfield Township police that the search was ending without any remains found at the Hidden Dreams Farm in Milford Township.
The Detroit Free Press, citing an anonymous federal official, also reported Tuesday that the search had ended with no trace of Hoffa.
FBI spokeswoman Dawn Clenney did not immediately return a call from the AP seeking comment. Bloomfield Township Police Chief Donald Zimmerman would neither confirm nor deny that the FBI is wrapping up its search.
Hoffa disappeared in July 1975 from a Detroit-area restaurant about 20 miles from Hidden Dreams Farm, land once owned by Hoffa associate Rolland McMaster.
McMaster's attorney Mayer Morganroth said he was not surprised that the search was wrapping up with the mystery still unsolved.
"We never expected that anything was there," he said, adding that the FBI likely felt pressured to respond to the tip, lest it seem as if it was not trying to solve the case.
Morganroth has said that his 93-year-old client was in Indiana on union business at the time Hoffa disappeared and that, to his knowledge, McMaster was never a suspect. The two men Hoffa was to meet the day he disappeared, a New Jersey Teamsters boss and a Detroit Mafia captain, are both dead.
On Monday, a Michigan congressman said it was time to set some spending limits on the search for Hoffa's remains.
"The FBI might be better off establishing a budget and some kind of timeline, because what new information do they have now, 31 years later?" U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg, R-Mich., asked.
The FBI hasn't revealed the cost of the search.
When agents arrived at the farm earlier this month, based on what Detroit agent-in-charge Daniel Roberts called a credible tip, Roberts said he expected the search for the former Teamsters' boss' body to take a couple of weeks and involve more than 40 FBI personnel, along with demolition experts, archaeologists and anthropologists.
The FBI defended its efforts in a statement last week, saying: "The expenditure of funds has always been necessary in each and every case the FBI works, and this one is no exception."
Robert Combs, who owns an electrical contracting firm that has done work for the FBI at the farm, said agents told him Tuesday morning that the digging had ended. He said he was at the farm that morning to deliver a proposal to do electrical work on a new barn to replace one the FBI destroyed in the search.
"They just didn't find anything, and they're just winding her down," Combs said.
Let the jokes begin!
This is a really terrific use of limited resources. I feel safer knowing that teams of FBI agents won't rest until they find his remains.
The farm owner can run over to the USDA Farm Service Agency Office for debris removal assistance, conervation plan assistance, land leveling assistance and then he can put the land in the Conservation Reserve Program for an annual subsidy payment to not farm it. Plus, he can apply for emergency feed assistance for the horses that missed any meals.
Absolutely! This is really what we need the FBI to be doing. Perhaps this kind of thing is why they fell asleep at the switch before 9/11 and missed the Phoenix memo. They're too busy trying to solve cold cases.
we should tell them he's buried on our southern border so at least one federal agency could feign attention.
I am pretty sure Jimmy Hoffa is buried under my ex-wife's house. The FBI would be remiss if they did not tear it down to be certain.
(Under one of the endzones if I recall correctly...)
Souter's house.
or are relieved to have to stop digging, if some of their cohorts were staffing the investigation team.
Tell the FBI that Hoffa is buried in my back yard right about where I'd like to install an in-ground pool. Don't worry about filling the hole back in, boys.
"Let them dig up the entire state of Michigan. After that, there is always Ohio."
I'm happy you feel that way, because we want to put oil rigs all around your state, lots of them.
I always believed the stories that he couldn't have fired all the shots in the allotted time, until I downloaded the infamous JFK sniper software that was so controversial a few years back.
I now believe he very well could have done it.
We better find Jimmy Hoffa's body soon! What if he comes back to life and hurts some innocent person?
Of course they didn't find him. He's under the football staduium in New Jersey. It's just cheaper and easier to tear down a barn than it is a stadium.
Theory:
I am guessing that the FBI was hoping that when they located Jimmy Hoffa's corpse, there would certainly be an empty bottle with a message in it, revealing the name of the murderer! Then they will have solved the case!
Clever!
I would like to see something like that on CSI, or has it been used yet?
The Teamsters will never make it another 30 years without him.
Please, let's not get into the Oswald/Conspiracy thing.
There is one over-riding issue with the JFK assasination that makes "Oswald did it" simply incredible, and that is OSwald's assasination: I'm supposed to believe that a mobster was so heartbroken (the Mob just adored Jack & Bobby, dontcha know) that he had to avenge his death. Right. Wanna buy a bridge?
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