Digging up Jimmy Hoffa?

[Whoozyerdaddy]

The feds are digging behind a barn in Michigan. They will have a press conference at 3pm EDT.

Should be interesting... For an hour anyway.

Link

MILFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. ? A horse farm in rural Oakland County was the setting Thursday for the latest search for Jimmy Hoffa.

A search warrant being executed by federal agents at the Hidden Dreams Farm stated that they were looking for "the human remains of James Riddle Hoffa."

In 2003, authorities searched beneath a backyard pool a few hours north of Detroit. The following year, they tested blood stains on the floor boards of a Detroit home.

Since the Teamsters leader last was seen alive nearly 31 years ago, every lead has come up empty.

But because federal officials drove this search, some hoped the mystery of what happened to Hoffa might soon be solved.

FBI agents investigating Hoffa's 1975 disappearance were at a Milford Township farm for a second day Thursday. The Teamsters leader had vanished from a restaurant in Oakland County's Bloomfield Township, about 20 miles away.

A law enforcement official in Washington said the search was based on information developed several years ago and verified more recently.

The information indicated there was a high level of suspicious activity on the farm the day Hoffa vanished, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing. A backhoe appeared near a barn that organized crime members had used for meetings, but that location was never used again after Hoffa disappeared, the official said.

Reporters were not allowed onto the property. Images shot from news helicopters showed people, some with shovels, standing by an area of newly turned dirt.

Neighbors looked on from their yards but said they hadn't been told anything.

At the time he vanished, Hoffa was on his way to a meeting with Anthony Provenzano, a New Jersey Teamsters boss, and Anthony Giacalone, a Detroit Mafia captain. Investigators believe Provenzano and Giacalone had Hoffa killed to prevent him from regaining the union presidency after he served time in federal prison for jury tampering.

Hoffa also earned the enmity of Robert F. Kennedy, who accused him of corruption and mob connections, first as counsel to a congressional committee investigating the unions, then as attorney general in his brother's Cabinet.

In 1967, Hoffa went to jail, sentenced to 13 years for jury tampering and fraud, but he refused to give up the Teamsters presidency. After he quit the job in 1971, then-President Nixon pardoned him.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Press conference cliffs...

They are looking for Jimmy Hoffa
They have hired archeologists and anthropologists from Michigan State
They brought in cadaiver dogs
They will have to move a "structure" to complete the investigation
The investigation will take a few weeks
Called "The best lead we've had in 30 years"
Lots and lots of guys in bad suits surrounding the speaker

All to find a mobster/union thug who was killed thirty years ago... your tax dollars at work.

 

[amish]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
your tax dollars at work.

it's no different than:
- a $200 toilet seat that we've paid for
- cable television for death row inmates
- health care for illegal immigrants
- having a road paved that only 1 family lives on out in the middle of nowhere.
- the police busting a keg party at my old house while not bothering the crackhouse next door.

i'm sure the list could go on. someday we might have controlled spending, but i doubt it.

but on the other hand, government spending stimulates the economy...yay! :thumbsdown:

 

[BarneyFife]

I agree that they should move on but they probably have nothing better to do.

 

[Lemon law]

You gotta understand the FBI and their kissing cousins the CIA are persistant--they are button down first come first served types who will always get their man--no matter how long it takes.

We have been looking for Hoffa for 31 years---and maybe this will get it rapped up.

We have been looking for Bin Laden for only less than five years.

We can expect some progress finding Bin Laden in only 26 more years.

 

[piasabird]

Hoffa might have just fled the country. He was guilty of racketeering and mismanaging Union Funds, and probably worked with the Mob. Hard to cry for such a guy. Labor law being what it is, he was probably just trying to survive. If they find his body, that will not solve much. They just have another body that was probably a Mob hit. There is also the possibility that the police killed him. Police were almost as corrupt as the criminals that far back. Lots of cops in many cities got paid not to arrest people.

 

[CaptnKirk]

My balogna has a first name it's "Jimmy" . . .

. . why do you think they called them Hoffys?


FBI Tape of Jimmy Hoffa - his last words

 

[moshquerade]

they feel it's a reliable tip from some old guy in the pen. he even took a polygraph and passed. it will be amazing if they do find the crook's bones.