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.
I just got a tip that could be 100% accurate that it was the property next door they wanted not this one.
What's the point of this, anyway? What good would it do to find his bones? He's dead, OK? Even if he staged his death and ran off to Tahiti with the pension fund, he's still dead by now.
And how many illegal Mexicans crossed our border in the past two weeks?
I think that those guys are going to have to admit that old Jimmy's just too fast for them.
LOL.....good one
See how easy it is to make every thread an immigration thread?
The trick isn't turning the thread into an immigration thread, but to be there when it happens!!!
See my message 37.
Atty. Gen. Gonzalez: " Well ? Did you find him ?"
FBI Director: "Na--a-a-a-a-a-a-a-y."
Of they could try the hall closet in the White House residence where Hillary hid her billing documents from subpeonas.
Of course, Fort Marcy park has always been a popular place to leave a body after a crime.
After they get finished with digging yours send them over to my house. I have the spot already picked out for them to dig (perfect fit for a nice in-ground with a diving board).
um,but how will we ever know that they REALLY didn't find anything.........;-)
Jimmy, after having his remains duly processed at a local Detroit area rendering plant, was interred throughout the Detroit area in thousands of dog gifts. Such gifts being highly evanescent, the FBI has not been called to go looking for him there.
One does not preclude the other. Oswald may have been Somebodies Patsy i.e. The Mob, and still the only shooter!
Thanks for posting it and the laugh!
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