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...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 to be on your own.' Tony's cheeks were red and twitching, he was so mad. Finally, he came towards Hoffa screaming...
Both writers agree with the FBI that Hoffa's murder was engineered by Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, the heavyhanded boss of New Jersey's Teamsters, who was convicted in June of the 1961 murder of Anthony Castellito, a Teamster hoodlum who had challenged Tony Pro's cut of the rackets...
...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 in the car were two of the three musclemen from Tony Pro's New Jersey Teamsters ranks assigned to carry out the killing: Gabriel Briguglio, 36, his brother Salvatore, 47, and Thomas Andretta, 38. Brill, however, does not mention a fourth mobster regarded by the FBI as a prime suspect in the slaying, Thomas Principe...
Though the FBI knows what happened to Hoffa, it does not have a strong enough case to go to court. "We all know who did it," one unidentified Teamsters vice president told Brill. "It was Tony with those guys of his from New Jersey. It's common knowledge. But the cops need a corroborating witness, and it doesn't look like they're about to get one, does it?" The FBI, according to Brill, has been playing a persistent and patient game, trying to get evidence against the suspects on other charges in the hope that...
George Sheehan, a New Jersey cardiologist often called the "high priest" of running, is archetypical. In Dr. Sheehan on Running he promulgates the notion of the runner as a special subspecies of human, a person gifted not only with better lungs and heart but with superior spirituality. Alas, superiority carries penalties. Sheehan feels the runner is specially susceptible to the meanness of an envious society. "Why," he asks, "is the runner a lightning rod for the anger and aggression and violence of others?" And Sheehan answers himself: "The runner puts himself above the law, above society. And men in gangs...