Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HOFFA NEVER could make the distinction, Murray Kempton wrote, between mine and thine--for all his right-wing bullshit (rapists should be lined up against the wall and shot, "the sons of bitches") he's a working class rebel. George Meany and Leonard Woodcock seem to like argument and accomodation with presidents and corporate bosses. Jimmy preferred to pound people who got in his way--and men who drive trucks and work in mills like Jimmy's method better...
...finding Hoffa, dead or alive, any private citizen could claim the $200,000 money put up by the family...
...bizarre hunt began with a tip from an unnamed informer who said a group of Mafiosi wanted Hoffa's body found. The reasoning was odd. The Mafiosi were said to feel they were unfairly getting too much heat from investigators working on the case. If the body was produced, the mobsters believed, their innocence could somehow be proved. No less curious was the fact that the informant went not to the FBI or Michigan state police but to the staff of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, headed by Democratic Senator Henry Jackson...
Vague Map. Before anyone could pose with anything, something had to be dug up. The map that the informant furnished was vague: it did not even ready Michigan authorities became when they learned that Helfgot admitted he was getting his information about Hoffa fourth-hand-by talking to a courier who was talking to gangsters who were talking to a man who had knowledge of the whereabouts of Hoffa's burial. "It's pure baloney," said one federal investigator. "That stuff about the Mafia is bunk. Look, if the Mob wanted Hoffa's body found, they would...
...week wore on, Senator Jackson withdrew his committee's investigators from the hunt. The FBI, meanwhile, was checking out a report that Hoffa's body had been stuffed into a trash compactor, compressed and hauled away to a landfill project by a sanitation company owned by the Mafia...