Growing up here, we learn to look the other way when a mob-corrupted former labor leader is being “escorted” out of a restaurant, into a waiting car.
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I was around that area and probably drove by that restaurant either that day or the day before. In-law aunts and uncles lived around the area.
I would have said “Jeez, I didn’t see nothin’. What do I look like a travel agent for where Hoffa goes? Gimme a break.”
Hoffa was bringing far too much attention to the Mob corruption of the Teamsters, so the bosses recruited a stoolie who sent him up.
(despite my use of that term, I'm 100% supportive of his removal)
When he got out early, it was due to Richard Nixon, who'd already had Hoffa enemy George Meany in his cabinet; as a consequence of Nixon's commuting of Hoffa's sentence to "time served", the Teamsters endorsed Nixon in 1972. Talk about a risk for no real gain, eh? Nixon won in 49 of 50 states.
The wikipedia page (had to look for something) is *very* thorough. Looks like the actual hit man just died last month, about three weeks ago. Wild stuff.