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...afternoon that Hoffa vanished, both Giacalone and Provenzano were on prominent display elsewhere. Tony Jack made an appearance in the steam rooms of the Southfield Athletic Club near Detroit, and Tony Pro hobnobbed with Teamsters at union locals in Hoboken...
Giacalone promptly denied any plans to meet with Hoffa, and Provenzano put on an extraordinary performance to proclaim his innocence. A few days later, clad in white bathing trunks, he smilingly welcomed reporters and television cameramen to his expensive home just north of Miami. "I don't know where Jimmy went," he insisted. "I'm as shocked as anyone by his disappearance, and if I can do anything to help find Jimmy, I will...
Strange Twist. That same day the Hoffa story took another strange twist with the emergence of Charles ("Chuckie") O'Brien, 41, Hoffa's foster son, who had disappeared the day after the former union leader dropped out of sight. Authorities were told that O'Brien, a $45,000-a-year Teamster organizer, had been seen in the vicinity of the Red Fox on the day Hoffa vanished. O'Brien stoutly insisted that he had not been in the area. But he readily admitted that he was there the following morning by what he claimed...
...investigation went on, O'Brien appeared to be a prime suspect despite the fact that he was known in the past to have been fiercely loyal to Hoffa, who had taken him into his family when he was three. The boy's father had just died-O'Brien claims he was killed on a picket line-and the Hoffas were very friendly with the mother, who was working as a union organizer. (She later remarried and started a new life.) Hoffa never formally adopted O'Brien, although he once took out the necessary papers...
...Girl. Still, authorities learned that O'Brien had had his differences with Hoffa within the past year. O'Brien admits quarreling with Hoffa in November when he wanted to run against David E. Johnson, a Hoffa stalwart, for the presidency of Detroit's powerful Local 299. Last month O'Brien married a go-go girl, a match that did not receive the full blessing of Hoffa, who has his puritanical side. Law officials were also interested in learning much more about reports that O'Brien was heavily in debt-perhaps by as much...