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In 1982, a Mob hitman named Charles Allen told a congressional committee that the union bigwig had been dismembered and left in the Florida Everglades. At the end of the decade, another hitman, Donald "Tony the Greek" Frankos suggested the enduringly popular notion that Hoffa was buried beneath Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Although the deaths of most chief suspects hampered further investigations, the cold case suddenly regained steam in 2001, when new DNA technology revealed that a hair found in the Mercury Marquis Brougham was a match for Hoffa. The matter was referred to the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office in Michigan, which returned the deflating news that there wasn't enough evidence to charge anyone. Three years later, another door opened with the release of a book titled I Heard You Paint Houses (an alleged mob phrase used to gauge a person's willingness to kill someone else). Written by lawyer Charles Brandt, the book presented an intriguing account of the case by a recently deceased Mafia and Hoffa associate named Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran.
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A horse farm near Milford, a garage in Roseville, an empty lot in Oakland torn up to reveal nothing. In another example of the "new evidence" that pops up every few years, in 2015 The New York Post reported on a claim that Hoffa had been buried in a 55-gallon drum at a toxic dump site in northeastern New Jersey. Naturally, the source of the info, mob and Teamsters insider Phillip "Brother" Moscato, had died the year before. Meanwhile, Martin Scorsese 2019 movie The Irishman features a script adapted from I Heard You Paint Houses and a cast of the usual Hollywood wise guys, including Robert De Niro (as Sheeran), Al Pacino (Hoffa) and Joe Pesci (Bufalino). A passion project of Scorsese's, the film took a long time to get off the ground. Chances are, with authorities no closer to cracking the case than they had been decades earlier, the director wasn't too worried about new developments spoiling his final product.
The Irishman tells the story of Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a hitman with an uncanny knack for finding himself at the center of history. Sheeran, from his retirement home, brings the viewer along with him as he aids and abets—and commits—some of the 20th century's most infamous crimes. Somehow, this previously low-profile thug was the lynchpin in every major unsolved, mob-linked hit. It's a compelling, tidy narrative; Sheeran's tale ties up many of America's unsolved mysteries and long-held conspiracy theories in a tidy bow. And, unsurprisingly for a Martin Scorsese film, it's been widely acclaimed, earning copious rave reviews and a whopping 10 Oscar nominations. Unfortunately for anyone who thought The Irishman doubled as a history lesson, though, it's not particularly faithful to the facts. Here, what Martin Scorsese's latest movie got wrong (and, sometimes, right) about Jimmy Hoffa and more famous figures. Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), and Bill Bufalino (Ray Romano) in The Irishman.
- Bufalino puts Sheeran on a private jet from Ohio to Michigan, where a car is waiting for him. Sheeran drives to an address he was given by Bufalino. Inside the house he meets Salvatore Briguglio aka "Sally Bugs", a Tony Provenzano enforcer. - Chuckie O'Brien - Hoffa's former foster son, now an adult - arrives at the house in the maroon Mercury and picks up Sheeran and Sally Bugs. They drive to the restaurant and meet an agitated Hoffa who has been waiting for Tony Pro and Sheeran. - Because of Sheeran in the car, they convince Hoffa to get in the car and tell him the meeting is being held at a house some ways down the road. They drive him to the house, Jimmy and Frank get out of the car and walk into the house together as Chuckie and Sally Bugs drive off. - Sheeran - who Hoffa trusts with his life - pulls out a gun and puts two in his head in the house and leaves, drives back to the airport and flies back to Ohio on the private jet where Bufalino waited for him in his car. - Two men later come in and cleaned up the Hoffa mess in the house, going out the back door with his body and taking it to a nearby mob-linked crematorium.
Tips from aging mobsters and anonymous sources have prompted forensic digs in far-flung places as the FBI has attempted to unearth Hoffa's burial site. They've searched beneath the lawn of a private home in Roseville, Michigan, and in 2013 they dug under a concrete slab in a field near Detroit about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from the restaurant where Hoffa was last seen alive [source: Lichterman]. In 2019, they searched a parcel of land in Hillsdale Township, Michigan. The tips that have trickled in to investigators during the last four decades have contended Hoffa's remains could be found anywhere — from under an end zone in the now-demolished Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, to a swamp in the Everglades. Another proposed explanation is that Hoffa's body was stuffed into a junkyard car, put through a compactor and then shipped overseas as scrap metal [source: Bump]. Perhaps the real reason Hoffa's body has never been found is far simpler — there is no body. What Really Happened to Jimmy Hoffa's Body?
They said Provenzano wanted to meet to bury the hatchet and make peace. Hoffa must have smelled a rat, because he refused. In the FBI memo, he tells the go-betweens that he "wouldn't meet Provenzano anywhere" and calls the mobster a "bum. " "I Heard You Paint Houses" And then came the July 30, 1975 meeting at the Red Fox. Hoffa told trusted associates that he was going to meet with the local Mafia boss Giacalone, but didn't mention Provenzano. Either way, neither of the men showed up at the restaurant, so Hoffa left. What happened next is pure speculation, but the FBI had a theory in 1976 and a 2004 deathbed confession backs it up. When Hoffa left the restaurant, according to the Hoffex Memo, he was probably met in the parking lot by either his foster son, Chuckie O'Brien, his trusted associate, The Irishman, or both. The FBI doesn't think Hoffa wasn't forcibly snatched and tossed into a car, because he would have made a scene in front of dozens of witnesses. "It had to be people Hoffa knew and had earned some level of trust, " says Buccellato.
He [was] close to organized crime people and he was one of the best friends of Mr. Hoffa. " Still, when they organized for suspects to appear in a lineup, Sheeran wasn't called in; in the infamous "Hoffex" memo about the case, it's only mentioned that Sheeran was "known to be in Detroit area at the time of [Hoffa's] disappearance, and considered to be a close friend" of the deceased. Another reason why the public is susceptible to tales like Sheeran's? To this day, Hoffa's disappearance hasn't been definitively solved. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at
The FBI dogged Hoffa for years, as did Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, but law enforcement was unable to pin criminal charges on the Teamster chief until 1964, when Hoffa was convicted of bribing members of a 1962 jury. Four years into his sentence, Hoffa was pardoned by Nixon. But as a condition of his release, Hoffa promised to never again hold a leadership position in the Teamsters or any other union until 1980. Hoffa's later attempt to renege on that deal may have cost him his life. On July 30, 1975, Hoffa arrived at the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Detroit, allegedly for a meeting with Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone, a local Mafia street boss. But Giacalone never showed, and after some friendly chitchat with other diners, Hoffa walked out of the restaurant, never to be seen again. The next day, authorities found his car still in the Red Fox parking lot, but Hoffa's whereabouts, and the circumstances of his suspected murder, remain one of the greatest mysteries in FBI history. Despite multiple investigations in the decades that followed, Hoffa's body has never been found.
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