Word: provenzano
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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...
When Konigsberg next met his boss, they hugged and kissed, and Konigsberg received an envelope stuffed with $15,000. Sinno also attended the friendly gathering. But within a few months, he became convinced that Provenzano was out to get him, too; he thereupon fled to the Midwest, where he hid under several aliases...
According to testimony at the trial, Provenzano in 1961 tapped Konigsberg, Salvatore ("Sally Bugs") Briguglio and Salvatore ("Big Sal") Sinno to kill a union rival, Anthony Castellito. They lured the victim to his own summer home in the Catskills, knocked him out with a lead-filled hose and strangled him with a rope. His body has never been found...
...investigation into the case soon stalled. But when Provenzano went to Lewisburg Penitentiary in 1966 for shaking down a trucking firm executive, he became embroiled in a vendetta with a fellow inmate, former Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa, who had enraged Tony Pro by denying him a union pension. Both were eventually set free, and mob leaders summoned Hoffa to a peacemaking conference with Provenzano in a Detroit parking lot on July 30, 1975. Hoffa has not been seen since...
...course of hunting for Hoffa, Justice Department officials picked up a tip that Big Sal Sinno, who was then living in Wisconsin, might be willing to implicate Provenzano in the murder of Castellito. Investigators also tried to induce Briguglio to turn state's evidence; he was shot to death last March in Manhattan. But the FBI guarded Sinno carefully, and last week, as police marksmen patrolled the courthouse, he was the prosecution's star witness...