Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy and Tony Pro had long been buddies, but they almost came to blows in July 1967, when both were serving time in Lewisburg, Tony Pro for extortion. A fellow convict told Brill that the two argued over how to divide up Teamster turf, and Hoffa made it clear that he would give no help to Tony Pro. "Tony was explaining to Jimmy how he was going to get right back into things in New Jersey," recalled the convict. "Well, Jimmy exploded at him. 'Look,' he said, 'when you get out, you guys are going to have...
...feud continued both in prison and after Hoffa and Provenzano were released. According to Moldea, Hoffa told a fellow Teamster that Provenzano had "threatened to pull my guts out or kidnap my children if I continue to attempt to return to the presidency of the Teamsters." But, at the urging of Anthony ("Tony Jack") Giacalone, a Detroit gang lieutenant and longtime friend, Hoffa finally agreed to meet with Tony Pro on July 30, 1975, to try to resolve their differences...
That afternoon, according to both accounts, Hoffa left his suburban Detroit home and drove alone in his car to the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township. He expected to be picked up there to go elsewhere for the meeting with Provenzano. Soon afterward, Charles ("Chuckle") O'Brien, 41, pulled into the parking lot. Hoffa apparently got into the car voluntarily. He had good reason to trust O'Brien; the Hoffas had raised him after the death of his father. His mother had been a close friend of Mrs. Hoffa's. Brill reports that also...
...back seat beside Hoffa as O'Brien drove; a second sat in front. During the trip, the thug in back hit Hoffa over the head with some kind of blunt instrument, knocking him out. Traces of Hoffa's blood and hair were found in the back seat...
...Hoffa may have been strangled in the vehicle. There would have been more blood if he had been shot, evidence that his assailants did not want to leave behind. Or he may have been taken somewhere else and killed. Brill believes that Hoffa's body was later completely destroyed in a large trash shredder, compactor or incinerator-or some combination of all three-at Central Sanitation Services in nearby Hamtramck, Mich. The refuse-disposal company is owned by two Detroit crime figures, Raffael Quasarano and Peter Vitale...