Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each day passed, it grew ever more unlikely that Hoffa had been kidnaped for ransom or had vanished of his own accord. It seemed increasingly certain he was dead and would never be found-like countless Mafia victims before him. Hoffa had been warned by St. Louis Teamsters that he might be murdered if he continued to try to regain control of the union. But cocky as always, he had not taken any precautions to guard himself. In one last chat with a friend, he declared: "Everybody knows where I am. I never had bodyguards and I always drive myself...
...case. They hoped that the huge $275,000 reward would persuade somebody involved in the plot to talk. The investigation will be intensified this week or next when subpoenas are issued for grand jury appearances. Reportedly among those to be questioned are a pair closely associated with the Mafia: Anthony Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano, who were supposed to meet with Hoffa at the Machus Red Fox Restaurant on the day he disappeared. U.S. Attorney Ralph Guy Jr. is hopeful that the threat of contempt citations will force the mobsters to divulge at least part of what they know...
...dissected by the Senate McClellan committee-which later branded it a "hoodlum empire"-and thrown out of the AFL-CIO as a pariah unfit to live in the house of labor. Since then, it has been the target of endless grand-jury investigations and many exposes of Teamster-Mafia deals, and some of its officers have been jailed; James R. Hoffa ran the union from a cell in Lewisburg federal penitentiary between 1967 and 1971. Now Hoffa's disappearance and presumed murder have focused new attention on the giant union, leading to one clear-if dismaying-conclusion: the decades...
...police and the Hoffa family were ready to try almost anything to find the former Teamster boss who had so suddenly vanished on July 30. At week's end an FBI laboratory technician was analyzing some stains found in a car belonging to the family of reported Mafia Leader Anthony ("Tony Jack") Giacalone; there was some fear that the spots might be Hoffa's blood. Other efforts included the hypnotizing of people who had talked to Hoffa shortly before he disappeared, in the hope of coaxing some leads from their memories of the recent conversations. Within Hoffa...
...does. Hoffa may have been kidnaped or have simply disappeared for dark reasons of his own, but TIME has learned that federal authorities believe the cocky, stubby union leader has been murdered. The suspected reason: to prevent him from disrupting the lucrative deals between the Mafia and the Teamsters that had developed since 1967, when Hoffa was imprisoned for jury tampering, fraud and conspiracy. Under the benign leadership of Frank Fitzsimmons, Hoffa's hand-picked successor as president, powerful local Teamster chiefs allowed the Mob to wheel and deal with the union's $1.3 billion pension fund. Gangsters...