Jimmy Hoffa Research Paper
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Jimmy Hoffa: Missing Body
January 17th, 2014
Jimmy Hoffa: Missing Body
James R. Hoffa, also known as Jimmy Hoffa, was an American Labor Union leader of the teamsters who went missing in 1975. To this day, no one has any knowledge to where his body might be. Hoffa was very high in the rankings in his mid-twenties with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is still active today. They are a labor union group that represents a diverse membership of blue-collar and professional workers in both the public and private sectors. From 1958 to 1971, Hoffa became the general president of the National Brotherhood of Teamsters. Hoffa needed help with muscle and money for the Teamsters for their strikes so he turned to the Italian mafia for help. The Detroit mafia was who he got help from. It is believed that Tony Zerilli had something to do with Hoffa. During these years as president of the Teamsters, Hoffa was convicted of jury tampering, fraud, and attempted bribery. He was jailed in 1967 and was then sentenced to about 13 years. He resigned from presidency of the teamsters in 1971 in order to accommodate the agreement made with Richard Nixon. Nixon made it clear that Jimmy Hoffa could not be affiliated with union activities until 1980 which was when his 13 year sentencing would be over and done with. Hoffa had …show more content…
gone missing on July 30, 1975. There is no known location, to this day, where his body is and it is clear that no one will find his body anytime soon but it is most likely that the Detroit mafia wanted to get rid of him, so they killed him. There were many rumors of where his body might have been hidden but none of those rumors were true. Maybe someday someone will find this man 's body (2014).
James R. Hoffa was was born on the 14th of February in the year of 1913. He was born in Brazil, Indiana. After the death of his father, when Jimmy was just seven years old, the family moved to Detroit, Michigan. This is then where James was raised for the rest of his life. The Hoffa family was in need of money so Jimmy had to drop out of school at the age of 14 to support the family. Jimmy 's first job was at a grocery store in Detroit and it paid substandard minimum wage. The working conditions were awful and the workers were not pleased what so ever. Hoffa was really young and rose to the occasion to help form a union which impressed a lot of people because of his valiance. In the year of 1932, Hoffa refused to work for an abusive shit foreman that inspired him to organize workers and he eventually left the grocery business to take action in partnerships with the worker 's unions. Jimmy had then been invited to be a part of the Local 299 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in Detroit. James had married Josephine Poszywak in 1936. In 1939 they paid $6,900 for a decent house that was located at 16154 Robson Street in Detroit (2014).
During the 1930s, Hoffa eventually became the president of the union 's Detroit sector of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Jimmy was by far one of the hardest workers that this union has ever seen. His effort went towards negotiating contracts for his constituents by doing anything in his power possible and also by expanding the union 's membership. All of the hard work that James Hoffa put forth led up to what had happened in 1952. In 1952, Jimmy became vice president of the entire International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Later, in 1957, Jimmy Hoffa won the presidency of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The new president was investigated many times for different things but managed to avoid persecution for some years to come. In the year of 1961, Hoffa had a made a landmark achievement for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Hoffa had brought almsot all of the truck drivers together in North America all under one single contract. U.S. Attroney General robert F. Kennedy and the FBI both watched Jimmy Hoffa very closely. They both had reason to believe thhat Hoffa used the Italian mafia to aid him in the truck driver 's advancement (A+E Networks, 2014). Hoffa was indicted many times by the Justice Department but they failed miserably to win their cases against him. In 1964, Jimmy was determined guilty for bribery and and jury tampering in connections with his federal trial for conspiracy in 1962. Later in the year of 1964, he was convicted of misusing some of the union funds for the pension plan.
For just around about three years, Jimmy Hoffa was on trial to appeal of the convictions against him.
1967 rolled around and Hoffa had began to serve a possible 13 year prison sentencing. He recieved a pardon from the President of the United States, Richard Nixon, in the year of 1971. James R. Hoffa also had been told that he was banned from having a leadership position in the union until the year 1980. This didn 't stop Hoffa. He was relentless and did not give up the fight to regain control of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (Simkin, J. ,
2011).
Many enemies were made over the course of Jimmy Hoffa 's career with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. One of these many enemies, may have had something to do with the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa in 1975. On the evening of July 30, 1975, Jimmy had left his home that was located in Detroit, Michigan for a meeting. This meeting was with a Detroit native crime figure and also with an organized mob affiliated leader of a union from New Jersey. It was at a local restaurant in the Bloomfield Township. The meeting was adjourned in order to settle a dispute between these men but Hoffa had been the only one to show up to it. No one can verify for sure what happened after Hoffa had left his for the meeting that day (2011). The only evidence that was found was that his car was left in the parking lot of the restaurant that day. No clues were found about where Hoffa might have been located. Jimmy was determined dead in the year of 1982. Many theories and conspiracies about what happened to Jimmy Hoffa on July 30, 1975 have been made but no one knows for sure what actually happened to this man. Some people have theories to believe that either federal agents or an organized crime family had killed him. To this day, Jimmy 's body has still not been found. One of the most famous myths is that the body of Jimmy Hoffa was located under the New York Giants football stadium and was buried there while it was in the process of being constructed. It was called the Meadowlands Complex and it was located in East Rutherford, New Jersey. There was an interview that Donald “Tony the Greek” Frankos had with playboy magazine in 1989 where he stated some speculation on this event. Frankos was a mob hit man in New Jersey that claims he was not involved in the murder of Hoffa but knew two men that claimed to be involved. Frankos had claimed that these two men murdered and dismembered Hoffa 's body and eventually buried him one of the two end zones in the Meadowlands Complex. Many people supported this myth and also made it clear that he did disappear during the construction of this stadium. Hoffa was in fact, supposed to meet with Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano who was the New Jersey crime boss at the time. Tony the Greek insisted that Anthony Provezano ordered the hit on Jimmy Hoffa. This theory was settled when the stadium had been demolished in 2010 in order to build the new stadium for the New York Giants football team (Maranzani, B. , 2013).
There are many theories as to why the mob killed Jimmy Hoffa but it is true. The mob did in fact, kill Hoffa. In January 1976, the government had started issuing top secret internal interviews. They were with an informant who had claims to knowing the entire story what actually happened to the former leader of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, James R. Hoffa. The informant was Ralph Picardo, who at the time, was serving a murder sentence at Trenton State Prison. Ralph Picardo was a business agent for Local 84 in New Jersey. He was also a driver for Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano. The informant, Picardo, claimed that Hoffa was in fact, invited to the restaurant in Detroit, Michigan, Machus Red Fox. Hoffa was invited by the Detroit mobster Anthony Giacalone for a “talk” with Anthony Provenzano. These two men had a plan to settle all of their disputes at this restaurant. Chuckie O 'Brien, who included in his alibi, spending time carving a large fish that day. He then said that he picked Hoffa up at the restaurant. Then Chuckie had taken Jimmy to a house nearby where Chuckie had been staying with his own friends. The business agent of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Thomas Andretta, Salvatore Briguglio and his brother Gabriel were in the house. Apparently, all of those men were waiting in the house to attack Jimmy Hoffa. Frank Sheeran, who had been president of Local 326 in the state of Delaware, was in the house as well. Frank Sheeran was a close associate of the mob boss of Pennsylvania named Russell Bufalino. Frank Sheeran drove Bufalino to the city of Detroit that day. According to Ralph Picardo, the murder of Hoffa was established by Russell Bufalino who was in fact the man that gave the contract to Anthony Provenzano. Russell Bufalino 's cousin William, who was president of the Teamsters ' jukebox local in Detroit, encountered a falling out with Jimmy Hoffa in 1967. Ralph Picardo had not said whether or not Bufalino was in fact present for Jimmy Hoffa 's murder. It does catch some people 's attention though that on a day when others that are involved in the conspiracy made sure that they were nowhere near the same location. Bufalino traveled from his base in Pittston, Pennsylvania. It is possible that Bufalino wanted to make sure that the great and powerful Jimmy Hoffa was taken care of quick and clean. Or maybe even it was personal, and Russell Bufalino wanted to witness the murder for himself. Bufalino 's exact whereabouts on July 30, 1975, the day that Jimmy Hoffa went missing, are unknown. There is no doubt that Hoffa was murdered that day in that house by the mafia (Bruno, A. , n.d.).
There is plenty of clear and true evidence that proves that James R. Hoffa was in fact murdered by the mafia. Hoffa 's disappearance seems like it was set up for a lot of speculation to be made. He was an intellectual, influential, and witty figure that many people had looked up to. He was definitely the most famous union leader during his lifetime. He maintained a union base in Detroit, blue-collar home of the famous and successful auto industry. He also had that bad-boy mentality and audacity, both for his leadership and his alleged ties to organized crime and the Detroit and New Jersey mafias. Actually, some Kennedy conspiracies and myths tie Jimmy Hoffa to the president 's assassination. It 's the organized crime touch that gives the story a jolt of electricity. There are also the circumstances leading up to his death. Two weeks before Hoffa 's disappearance in 1975, many federal investigators found that hundreds of millions of dollars had been stolen from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters ' largest pension fund. Hoffa was last seen at Machus Red Fox restaurant in suburban Detroit, seemingly to meet with supposed Detroit Mafia street enforcer Anthony Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano, chief of a Teamsters union that was local in New Jersey at the time. Provenzano was later convicted of a murder case. Giacalone and Provenzano later told the FBI that no meeting had been scheduled on July 30, 1975. Both men have since passed away. The current informant used to do business with a man who had ties to Giacalone and his organized crime family (Leopold, T. , n.d.).
It is definitely clear that the mafia killed James Riddle Hoffa. No one else had any other reason to kill this man who was once head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Jimmy Hoffa was a great man who lived such a short life.
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Bibliography
Jimmy Hoffa (2014). In Wikipedia. Retrieved January 16, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa
Leopold, T. (n.d.). Vanished Hoffa still fascinates after almost 40 years. In CNN Justice. Retrieved January 8, 2014, from http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/28/justice/hoffa- fascination/index.html
Bruno, A. (n.d.). In The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. Retrieved January 14, 2014, from http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/jimmy_hoffa/1.html
Simkin, J. (2013, June). Jimmy Hoffa. In Spartacus Educational . Retrieved January 16, 2014, from http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhoffa.htm#source
Jimmy Hoffa (2014). In bio. True story. Retrieved January 15, 2014, from http://www.biography.com/people/jimmy-hoffa-9341063
Maranzani, B. (2013, June 20). 9 Places Jimmy Hoffa (Probably) Isn’t Buried. In History. Retrieved January 14, 2014, from http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/9-places- jimmy-hoffa-probably-isnt-buried
Jimmy Hoffa: Missing Body
January 17th, 2014
Jimmy Hoffa: Missing Body
James R. Hoffa, also known as Jimmy Hoffa, was an American Labor Union leader of the teamsters who went missing in 1975. To this day, no one has any knowledge to where his body might be. Hoffa was very high in the rankings in his mid-twenties with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is still active today. They are a labor union group that represents a diverse membership of blue-collar and professional workers in both the public and private sectors. From 1958 to 1971, Hoffa became the general president of the National Brotherhood of Teamsters. Hoffa needed help with muscle and money for the Teamsters for their strikes so he turned to the Italian mafia for help. The Detroit mafia was who he got help from. It is believed that Tony Zerilli had something to do with Hoffa. During these years as president of the Teamsters, Hoffa was convicted of jury tampering, fraud, and attempted bribery. He was jailed in 1967 and was then sentenced to about 13 years. He resigned from presidency of the teamsters in 1971 in order to accommodate the agreement made with Richard Nixon. Nixon made it clear that Jimmy Hoffa could not be affiliated with union activities until 1980 which was when his 13 year sentencing would be over and done with. Hoffa had …show more content…
gone missing on July 30, 1975. There is no known location, to this day, where his body is and it is clear that no one will find his body anytime soon but it is most likely that the Detroit mafia wanted to get rid of him, so they killed him. There were many rumors of where his body might have been hidden but none of those rumors were true. Maybe someday someone will find this man 's body (2014).
James R. Hoffa was was born on the 14th of February in the year of 1913. He was born in Brazil, Indiana. After the death of his father, when Jimmy was just seven years old, the family moved to Detroit, Michigan. This is then where James was raised for the rest of his life. The Hoffa family was in need of money so Jimmy had to drop out of school at the age of 14 to support the family. Jimmy 's first job was at a grocery store in Detroit and it paid substandard minimum wage. The working conditions were awful and the workers were not pleased what so ever. Hoffa was really young and rose to the occasion to help form a union which impressed a lot of people because of his valiance. In the year of 1932, Hoffa refused to work for an abusive shit foreman that inspired him to organize workers and he eventually left the grocery business to take action in partnerships with the worker 's unions. Jimmy had then been invited to be a part of the Local 299 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in Detroit. James had married Josephine Poszywak in 1936. In 1939 they paid $6,900 for a decent house that was located at 16154 Robson Street in Detroit (2014).
During the 1930s, Hoffa eventually became the president of the union 's Detroit sector of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Jimmy was by far one of the hardest workers that this union has ever seen. His effort went towards negotiating contracts for his constituents by doing anything in his power possible and also by expanding the union 's membership. All of the hard work that James Hoffa put forth led up to what had happened in 1952. In 1952, Jimmy became vice president of the entire International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Later, in 1957, Jimmy Hoffa won the presidency of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The new president was investigated many times for different things but managed to avoid persecution for some years to come. In the year of 1961, Hoffa had a made a landmark achievement for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Hoffa had brought almsot all of the truck drivers together in North America all under one single contract. U.S. Attroney General robert F. Kennedy and the FBI both watched Jimmy Hoffa very closely. They both had reason to believe thhat Hoffa used the Italian mafia to aid him in the truck driver 's advancement (A+E Networks, 2014). Hoffa was indicted many times by the Justice Department but they failed miserably to win their cases against him. In 1964, Jimmy was determined guilty for bribery and and jury tampering in connections with his federal trial for conspiracy in 1962. Later in the year of 1964, he was convicted of misusing some of the union funds for the pension plan.
For just around about three years, Jimmy Hoffa was on trial to appeal of the convictions against him.
1967 rolled around and Hoffa had began to serve a possible 13 year prison sentencing. He recieved a pardon from the President of the United States, Richard Nixon, in the year of 1971. James R. Hoffa also had been told that he was banned from having a leadership position in the union until the year 1980. This didn 't stop Hoffa. He was relentless and did not give up the fight to regain control of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (Simkin, J. ,
2011).
Many enemies were made over the course of Jimmy Hoffa 's career with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. One of these many enemies, may have had something to do with the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa in 1975. On the evening of July 30, 1975, Jimmy had left his home that was located in Detroit, Michigan for a meeting. This meeting was with a Detroit native crime figure and also with an organized mob affiliated leader of a union from New Jersey. It was at a local restaurant in the Bloomfield Township. The meeting was adjourned in order to settle a dispute between these men but Hoffa had been the only one to show up to it. No one can verify for sure what happened after Hoffa had left his for the meeting that day (2011). The only evidence that was found was that his car was left in the parking lot of the restaurant that day. No clues were found about where Hoffa might have been located. Jimmy was determined dead in the year of 1982. Many theories and conspiracies about what happened to Jimmy Hoffa on July 30, 1975 have been made but no one knows for sure what actually happened to this man. Some people have theories to believe that either federal agents or an organized crime family had killed him. To this day, Jimmy 's body has still not been found. One of the most famous myths is that the body of Jimmy Hoffa was located under the New York Giants football stadium and was buried there while it was in the process of being constructed. It was called the Meadowlands Complex and it was located in East Rutherford, New Jersey. There was an interview that Donald “Tony the Greek” Frankos had with playboy magazine in 1989 where he stated some speculation on this event. Frankos was a mob hit man in New Jersey that claims he was not involved in the murder of Hoffa but knew two men that claimed to be involved. Frankos had claimed that these two men murdered and dismembered Hoffa 's body and eventually buried him one of the two end zones in the Meadowlands Complex. Many people supported this myth and also made it clear that he did disappear during the construction of this stadium. Hoffa was in fact, supposed to meet with Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano who was the New Jersey crime boss at the time. Tony the Greek insisted that Anthony Provezano ordered the hit on Jimmy Hoffa. This theory was settled when the stadium had been demolished in 2010 in order to build the new stadium for the New York Giants football team (Maranzani, B. , 2013).
There are many theories as to why the mob killed Jimmy Hoffa but it is true. The mob did in fact, kill Hoffa. In January 1976, the government had started issuing top secret internal interviews. They were with an informant who had claims to knowing the entire story what actually happened to the former leader of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, James R. Hoffa. The informant was Ralph Picardo, who at the time, was serving a murder sentence at Trenton State Prison. Ralph Picardo was a business agent for Local 84 in New Jersey. He was also a driver for Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano. The informant, Picardo, claimed that Hoffa was in fact, invited to the restaurant in Detroit, Michigan, Machus Red Fox. Hoffa was invited by the Detroit mobster Anthony Giacalone for a “talk” with Anthony Provenzano. These two men had a plan to settle all of their disputes at this restaurant. Chuckie O 'Brien, who included in his alibi, spending time carving a large fish that day. He then said that he picked Hoffa up at the restaurant. Then Chuckie had taken Jimmy to a house nearby where Chuckie had been staying with his own friends. The business agent of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Thomas Andretta, Salvatore Briguglio and his brother Gabriel were in the house. Apparently, all of those men were waiting in the house to attack Jimmy Hoffa. Frank Sheeran, who had been president of Local 326 in the state of Delaware, was in the house as well. Frank Sheeran was a close associate of the mob boss of Pennsylvania named Russell Bufalino. Frank Sheeran drove Bufalino to the city of Detroit that day. According to Ralph Picardo, the murder of Hoffa was established by Russell Bufalino who was in fact the man that gave the contract to Anthony Provenzano. Russell Bufalino 's cousin William, who was president of the Teamsters ' jukebox local in Detroit, encountered a falling out with Jimmy Hoffa in 1967. Ralph Picardo had not said whether or not Bufalino was in fact present for Jimmy Hoffa 's murder. It does catch some people 's attention though that on a day when others that are involved in the conspiracy made sure that they were nowhere near the same location. Bufalino traveled from his base in Pittston, Pennsylvania. It is possible that Bufalino wanted to make sure that the great and powerful Jimmy Hoffa was taken care of quick and clean. Or maybe even it was personal, and Russell Bufalino wanted to witness the murder for himself. Bufalino 's exact whereabouts on July 30, 1975, the day that Jimmy Hoffa went missing, are unknown. There is no doubt that Hoffa was murdered that day in that house by the mafia (Bruno, A. , n.d.).
There is plenty of clear and true evidence that proves that James R. Hoffa was in fact murdered by the mafia. Hoffa 's disappearance seems like it was set up for a lot of speculation to be made. He was an intellectual, influential, and witty figure that many people had looked up to. He was definitely the most famous union leader during his lifetime. He maintained a union base in Detroit, blue-collar home of the famous and successful auto industry. He also had that bad-boy mentality and audacity, both for his leadership and his alleged ties to organized crime and the Detroit and New Jersey mafias. Actually, some Kennedy conspiracies and myths tie Jimmy Hoffa to the president 's assassination. It 's the organized crime touch that gives the story a jolt of electricity. There are also the circumstances leading up to his death. Two weeks before Hoffa 's disappearance in 1975, many federal investigators found that hundreds of millions of dollars had been stolen from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters ' largest pension fund. Hoffa was last seen at Machus Red Fox restaurant in suburban Detroit, seemingly to meet with supposed Detroit Mafia street enforcer Anthony Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano, chief of a Teamsters union that was local in New Jersey at the time. Provenzano was later convicted of a murder case. Giacalone and Provenzano later told the FBI that no meeting had been scheduled on July 30, 1975. Both men have since passed away. The current informant used to do business with a man who had ties to Giacalone and his organized crime family (Leopold, T. , n.d.).
It is definitely clear that the mafia killed James Riddle Hoffa. No one else had any other reason to kill this man who was once head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Jimmy Hoffa was a great man who lived such a short life.
.
Bibliography
Jimmy Hoffa (2014). In Wikipedia. Retrieved January 16, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa
Leopold, T. (n.d.). Vanished Hoffa still fascinates after almost 40 years. In CNN Justice. Retrieved January 8, 2014, from http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/28/justice/hoffa- fascination/index.html
Bruno, A. (n.d.). In The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. Retrieved January 14, 2014, from http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/jimmy_hoffa/1.html
Simkin, J. (2013, June). Jimmy Hoffa. In Spartacus Educational . Retrieved January 16, 2014, from http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhoffa.htm#source
Jimmy Hoffa (2014). In bio. True story. Retrieved January 15, 2014, from http://www.biography.com/people/jimmy-hoffa-9341063
Maranzani, B. (2013, June 20). 9 Places Jimmy Hoffa (Probably) Isn’t Buried. In History. Retrieved January 14, 2014, from http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/9-places- jimmy-hoffa-probably-isnt-buried