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Winter of 1974 – Hoffa has his parole restrictions removed and embarks on a media blitz, campaigning to take back the Teamsters while blasting the mafia and promising to rid the entire union rank-and-file of mob influence if and when he gets back in office

#JIMMY HOFFA FOUND PRO#

March 1967 – Hoffa is incarcerated at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary following appeals on his criminal convictions being rejected, housed in the prison’s infamous “Mafia Manor” wing, holding many of the country’s most fearsome Italian organized crime figuresġ969 – Hoffa and New Jersey Teamster Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano, a convicted murderer and Genovese crime family capo, get into a heated verbal altercation that turned physical at the Lewisburg chow hall, regarding union benefits Hoffa and his family were still receiving while he was behind bars, but Tony Pro and his family were not – originally, Hoffa and Tony Pro were close friends dating back years, however the falling out in the can would cause serious issues for Hoffa going forwardįebruary 1971 – Hoffa officially surrenders duties as Teamsters President, handing over the reins to the union empire to his VP and one-time protégé Frank Fitzsimmonsĭecember 1971 – Hoffa is granted a Presidential Pardon by Richard Nixon (looking to secure the Teamsters backing in his ’72 election)ġ972 – Hoffa announces his intention of unseating Fitzsimmons as president in the 1976 Teamsters election, news unsettling to his former allies in the mob, who had in no uncertain terms instructed him to retire and not seek reelection, quite content with “Big Fitzy” in the union boss’ chair and a daughter Barbaraġ952 – Hoffa becomes International Vice President of the Teamstersġ958 – Hoffa becomes International President of the Teamsters, well on its way to being the most powerful single labor union in the world, and catapulting himself into the spotlight, where he’d go on to also become one of the most recognized people in the nation.ġ964 – Hoffa is convicted in federal court twice in the same year, first for bribery and jury tampering and second for fraud, sentences to eight years in prison September 1936 – Hoffa marries his wife, Josephine, buys a house in Northwest Detroit and starts a family, a son Jimmy, Jr. The sitdown, which Hoffa sought for months, was to quell tensions with a rival in the union he needed to win back support from if he was going to grab victory in a 1976 election to become Teamsters president again, a position he had held previously for 14 years before voluntarily surrendering it during a prison term.įebru– James Riddle Hoffa is born in Brazil, Indianaġ924 – Hoffa and his family move to Detroit, Michiganġ927 – Weeks short of his 15th birthday, Hoffa goes to work on the loading docks at Kroger’s, a leading grocery-store chain in the Detroit area to this very day, eventually making his reputation as a young force to be reckoned with in the burgeoning organized labor community by spearheading the now-famous “Strawberry Strike,” where he led his fellow “unloaders” on the dock in a work-stoppage to force a wage increase.ġ932 – Hoffa is recruited by the Teamsters to become a organizer at Local 299, the truckers and cartage-workers union’s main Detroit hub, located down by the old Tigers Stadiumġ935 – Hoffa cements relationship with Detroit mafia, using an introduction by international gangster extraordinaire Frank (Frankie Three Fingers) Coppola to syndicate labor racketeering experts like Angelo (The Chairman) Meli, Santo (Cockeyed Sam) Perrone and Peter (Horseface Pete) Licavoli, who he uses his ties to as a means of building a staggering powerbase in the decades to come That afternoon, Hoffa was on his way to what he presumed to be a critically-important mob sitdown with a pair of dangerous Mafiosi scheduled to take place at a suburban Detroit restaurant.

He was a lifelong mafia associate and those deep underworld connections are undoubtedly what got him killed at 62 in the midst of his golden-years resurgence in the enormously-powerful and at that moment immensely corrupt and mob-ridden labor union on July 30, 1975.

Hoffa’s high-profile kidnapping and slaying has never been solved, firmly embedding itself as the most notorious unsolved crime in American history. This week is the 40-year anniversary of iconic Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance and murder.

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