FBI to look for Jimmy Hoffa's body at Detroit-area home

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Jimmy Hoffa and his son, James P. Hoffa, who later also became president of the Teamsters, in a 1971 photo.

The FBI and local police in Michigan plan to take soil samples from the backyard of a house in the Detroit suburb of Roseville on Friday, acting on a dying man's tip that the body of former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa might be buried there.

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Authorities have chased down hundreds of would-be leads since Hoffa disappeared 37 years ago after he met with two top Mafia operatives at a restaurant in Bloomfield Township, another Detroit suburb, in July 1975. All have led to dead ends, but authorities said this lead could be different.

NBC station WDIV-TV of Detroit reported that an unidentified man who is dying from cancer told Roseville police that he saw men moving a black bag at the garage of the house just hours after Hoffa went missing. Acting on the tip, authorities ran radar tests last week that picked up an image of something buried beneath a cement slab in the backyard.

Roseville Police Chief James Berlin confirmed that investigators had received the tip, telling the Detroit Free Press that "the information seemed credible, so we decided to follow up on it."


The newspaper reported that the house is in the 18700 block of Florida Street in northern Roseville, about 20 miles northeast of Detroit.

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The disappearance of Hoffa — who ran the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the country's biggest labor union, from 1957 to 1971 — has long fueled conspiracy theories. At various times, his body was posited to have been buried under Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.; beneath General Motors headquarters at Detroit's Renaissance Center; on a farm in Hartland Township, Mich.; in a field in Milford, Mich.; and even on the grounds of the White House. 

What is known is that Hoffa, who was then 62, was chafing at restrictions on his activity in the Teamsters that President Richard Nixon imposed when he commuted Hoffa's 1967 federal prison sentence for fraud and jury tampering in 1971 (he continued to run the union from his prison cell). On July 30, 1975, Hoffa was scheduled to meet with Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone, capo of the Detroit Mafia, and Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, a former Teamsters vice president who was also a captain in the Genovese crime family, at a restaurant called the Machus Red Fox in Bloomfield Township.

In a 1976 "here we stand" memo published several years later, the FBI speculated that Hoffa reluctantly agreed to the meeting to try to smooth over differences with Provenzano and Giacalone, who were reportedly perturbed that Hoffa was trying to get back into the Teamsters' leadership, That, presumably, would have lessened the mob's control over the union.

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"It is believed that the hit, if there was one, would have been approved at very highest levels within the Organized Crime structure," the FBI concluded. "If this be the case, it would tend to lend credence to the evidence that PROVENZANO or certainly someone at his level, both within the Teamsters Union and (Mafia), was responsible."

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Hoffa's body has never been found. Provenzano was later convicted of an unrelated murder and died in 1988; Giacalone, who was imprisoned for tax fraud, died in 2001.

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Did anybody check I-75?..Belle Isle?..so many places..so mucccccccchh time!!!

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#1 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 5:52 PM EDT

D.B. Cooper buried him, after the hijacking. Jimmy's body is as findable as Obama's Kenya birth certificate , and Romney's tax returns. Maybe the mob sent his ground up body to a clandestine bakery. At least that would make the old saying true, '' Hoffa loaf is better than none ." F.B.I. give it up !

  • 60 votes
#1.1 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 5:57 PM EDT

I still think he's under the South end zone of Giant's Stadium.

  • 10 votes
#1.2 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:09 PM EDT
Comment author avatarUnitedStates1776Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

The mob did this hit.

With Hoffa in jail they were expanding their influence in the Teamsters.

And once Hoffa got out he stood in the way of the mob who wanted to take over the Teamsters from Hoffa.

.

  • 16 votes
#1.3 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:14 PM EDT
Comment author avatarbscolExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

I wonder if Hoffa voted for Obama in 2008 and whether he'll vote again this year.

  • 57 votes
#1.4 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:37 PM EDT

They're all dead now,Provoloni,Giacaloni,and Hoffaroni, and they all might as well be sleeping with da fishes!

The world's a better place!

Let Dead Trash Lye!

  • 11 votes
#1.5 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:39 PM EDT
Comment author avatarJanine-984304Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Sorry Jim Ledden, but the tax returns already came out. Can't use that one!

  • 23 votes
#1.6 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:42 PM EDT
Comment author avatarOn itExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

I wonder if Hoffa voted for Obama in 2008 and whether he'll vote again this year.

Not at all, he was a Republican. Didn't you read that Nixon sprang him from jail. With all of his unreported income and squirrely investments he's a Romney guy for sure

  • 37 votes
#1.7 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:44 PM EDT
Comment author avataranne-619140Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

@jim Ledden-3738606 - Uh, Romney released his tax returns last week, and who cares about the birth certificate issue. With one or without one, Obama is still an empty suit in an empty chair.

  • 61 votes
#1.8 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:46 PM EDT

Sorry Janine and anne...................Tax returns are already out? Why are you the only two people who know this? Summaries are not tax returns. So Jim can use anything he wants concerning tax returns. Nobody is falling for this crap but you and anne, Janine.

  • 39 votes
#1.9 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:52 PM EDT
Comment author avatarBluelakeExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

And Romney? A man with more money than brains, no core principles, no backbone and no character. A politician that flip flops more than Jimmy Buffet at a Key West walkathon with seemingly no way to tell fact from fiction. But most of all a tax dodging, draft dodging coward. Barely a citizen, hardly a leader.

  • 60 votes
#1.10 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:58 PM EDT

And mark my words, he'll be amending those tax returns after the election so he can get his charity write offs. Taking all 10K bets. Ante up.

  • 37 votes
#1.11 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:58 PM EDT
Comment author avatarCrystal-569996Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

And the union is just as corrupt as ever, with Hoffa Jr still in charge! Only an idiot thinks unions are in it for the workers, they are a corrupt greedy business. They pay off Washinginton and Washington in turn pays them off. They bought Obama's election for about 700 million, and then they got a HUGE chunk of the 500 billion bailout- pretty good return on the money.

  • 58 votes
#1.12 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:03 PM EDT

I see that Crystal still has a weak connection to reality.

  • 32 votes
#1.13 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:05 PM EDT

i swear, i just saw him this past Monday in Seattle wearing a black and white shirt, a cap covering most of his face, he blew a whistle and pushed both arms straight up to heaven. then the packers went ballistic on him. i heard he won a ton of money in Vegas. well you know, just another mobster stacking the odds in his favor.

  • 12 votes
#1.14 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:10 PM EDT

Forget about it...Tony "big p*ssy" took care of him...capisce?

  • 3 votes
#1.15 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:19 PM EDT
Comment author avatarEast to West TravelerExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

talk about leadership. romney was once a leader of massachusetts. obama, a leader? with the USA right now is in shambles, you call that leadership?. leadership is a god given gift of talent, a rare quality of a human being. obama was not born a leader, he was born an ideologue, an ideologue is not a leader, but a divider. the proof is in the pudding, obama himself on videotaped, admitting his ideologues, he successfully applied as president killing capitalism in america.

  • 29 votes
#1.16 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:26 PM EDT

I wonder if I can pay my Electric Bill with a summary of my check register (that I have fixed to show it paid)?

  • 24 votes
#1.17 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:40 PM EDT
Comment author avatarJimSpenceExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Hoffa is insignificant other than for historical purposes and for the FBI to finally close its case.

The bigger concern should be the criminals still running the unions goonions like Walchester, Saunders, Henry, Hoffa Jr. and Trumpka.

These are the biggest threats to our nation today.

  • 20 votes
#1.18 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:41 PM EDT

Another brain-washed/brain-dead minion of the Fox.

Typical far-right nazi comment...

Blame the working people, blame the non-working people, blame the so-called 47%...

While giving a pass to the corporate masters.

Look forward to hearing more of your whiny azzed comments for the next 4 years, Jim.

  • 23 votes
#1.19 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:00 PM EDT
Comment author avatarJ_P_PatchesPal_1Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

I bet Crystal has some really good sources - I'm going to wait right here so I don't miss them when she posts them. Who wants to play checkers while we wait?

Hoffa loaf - lmao! Around here that loaf is only half baked.

  • 9 votes
#1.20 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:00 PM EDT

See back in the day Mobs were illegal, but they still ran the Unions. Now that mobsters are legal citizens (while committing the same crimes) we just call them union bosses.

  • 34 votes
#1.21 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:09 PM EDT

As I recall, I-696 was under construction at that time...

  • 7 votes
#1.22 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:16 PM EDT

sosickofthecrap,

you can add another person to your list. tax returns are definately in, pay attention and you may learn something, but then again you are probably just another lib who could care less about the fate of this country!! i hope by the time you wake up it is not to late for the country!

  • 11 votes
#1.23 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:35 PM EDT

stoney-1938546 You are correct Sir!

... just before the Van Dyke or Hoover exit going east or west is what I always felt. I worked very early in the morning a few days after he was "offa'ed" and there was a "crew" down in the ditch the early morning before the concrete was poured. No shyte.

  • 5 votes
#1.24 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:50 PM EDT

It would be interesting to know, not where he is, but why. Jimmy Hoffa was one of the best union organizers that ever lived. Unlike a community organizer. He was instrumental in creating most unions in the US. I have to wonder which side killed him, the businesses that felt they were being extorted or the union members or current mob figures that had a different view of the future.

  • 9 votes
#1.25 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:53 PM EDT

"Janine-984304

Sorry Jim Ledden, but the tax returns already came out. Can't use that one!"

You mean Tax RETURN not returns? He released one that I'm pretty sure he doctored up for his Presidential run. Now where are the rest, with Jimmy Hoffa?

  • 13 votes
#1.26 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:57 PM EDT

My $2 in the office pool still has him under 3rd base at Yankees Stadium.

  • 3 votes
#1.27 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:08 PM EDT
Comment author avatarWorm meatExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Funny how little union thuggery has changed in 40 years.

  • 18 votes
#1.28 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:10 PM EDT

Actually, I heard they found him when they scraped all the makeup off Tammy Faye Baker.

  • 11 votes
#1.29 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:19 PM EDT

silverback929

Now now Silver, don’t be bitter because of the criminals you support. It’s no one’s fault but yours that you can’t negotiate your own worth. Doesn’t it bother you that 89% of people who work for non-union companies can negotiate or demand a wage commensurate with their worth but you can’t? You should be embarrassed.

Now as far as your relentless support for unions goonions is concerned, explain why they allowed millions of manufacturing jobs to leave our shores because of unsustainable wages, benefits and legacy costs? Explain how states will ever repay the over $4 trillion of unfunded pensions that the goonions negotiated and then just walked away unconcerned about how they will be funded? Explain how we can spend more than any nation, other than Switzerland, for education and still rank in the bottom 1/3 in reading, math and science compared to other OECD countries. The latest embarrassment in Chicago is the epitome of criminality as they spend over $11,500 per student and these are their 11th Graders Meeting College Readiness Benchmarks: 21% in Reading, 19% in Math, 11% in Science, 38% in English.

You can save your sanctimonious advocacy of the unions for the rest of your limp-wristed Liberal underachievers. You’re probably one of the mindless lemmings that believe that the middle class was created because of the goonions. Of course the genius of the McCormicks, Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, Wrights, Edisons and hundreds of others that took us from an agrarian society and created the biggest industrial based economy in history means nothing to you useful idiots.

Take your petty insults and go get a real education, a real job and stop relying on Barrack Hussein to take you to the Promised Land of social and economic justice nonsense.

Try to keep up Spanky.

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 for real Americans

  • 25 votes
#1.30 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:20 PM EDT

@ jim Ledden-3738606

Sorry, but IT DOES NOT MATTER WHERE OBAMA WAS BORN, not at all.

Obama's mother was a United States citizen as she was born in Kansas in 1942, which means . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . President Obama is a naturalized citizen.

Mitt Romney's father, George Romney, was born in Mexico in 1907, AND as George's parents were ALSO United States citizens, this means . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . Daddy George Romney was also a naturalized citizen.

Romney/Ryan - Sliding Down The Polls

Obama/Biden - 2012

  • 24 votes
#1.31 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:25 PM EDT

@ Rinkrat-1155621

I bet he amended them as soon as they were accepted by the governments to get those $$$$ back asap!

  • 5 votes
#1.32 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:30 PM EDT

When I asked my grandfather where Hoffa's body was, he responded with, "@!$%#, they're never gonna find him". It made me go, "Hmmmmmm?????"

Just saying.

  • 5 votes
#1.33 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:06 PM EDT

Let's see, Jim...

I don't mind not having to negotiate for my wages and benefits, I've make a very good wage with great benefits... Much better than I every did with non-unions.

As far as the rest of it, you can get all the info you require from Fox... Oh, I see you already have.

You see, Jim, the simple fact is that guys like you don't like unions because they support Democrats.

I feel sorry for you, Jim.

Along with the tycoons you so rightly named, you forget the workers who built this country. If you've ever really had to bust your azz for a living, you would know better than to say such things about workers.

Since you've assumed that I'm part of the under-educated, worthless job holders, want to take a guess as to what I do for a living?

In your mind, everyone who is a Democrat is a liberal... That shows just how uneducated you are.

Like I've told others in past threads, I'll now tell you.

When the REAL GOP meets, you won't be there, Jim... unless you're clearing the tables, or washing the dishes.

You won't be rubbing elbows with the Kocks, Hannity, or Rupert, but I guess we all need something to strive towards.

Good luck in your endeavor to kiss their azzes.

At least I haven't sold out the working class.

And BTW... Far-right republicans such as yourself, are the real enemy of the working class American.

  • 17 votes
#1.34 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:09 PM EDT

silverback929

You do realize that it was the strength of unions that caused automation in most auto plants? And one after another their jobs became worthless? Not one party or another, it was technology that killed the middle class.

  • 12 votes
#1.35 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:30 PM EDT

I bet Geraldo Rivera is licking his chops to be the one to dig this bag of bones up. He can save a little face from that Scarface fiasco

  • 8 votes
#1.36 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:39 PM EDT

silverback929

I don't mind not having to negotiate for my wages and benefits, I've make a very good wage with great benefits... Much better than I every did with non-unions.

The question you need to ask yourself is, are you worth your wages and benefits?

If you are, you don't need a union to negotiate for you.

If you're not, you're the reason jobs get outsourced or offshored.

Remember, businesses are created to produce profits not fictional jobs for those unqualified. Now don't get all self-righteous on me about some moral obligation that businesses have or Barrack Husseins "fairness" nonsense. That's as regressive as your social and economic justice indoctrination meme.

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 for real Americans

  • 13 votes
#1.37 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 11:25 PM EDT

the Irishman already set the record straight....Hoffa was incinerated at a local funeral parlour after the Irishman sent him to Australia....dust to dust

  • 1 vote
#1.38 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 11:50 PM EDT

Its no secret Jimmy died in the parking lot at the restaurant , was rendered down and fed to the animals at the humane society , except for a few sausages that were feed to some certain union officials, you will never find remains because there are no remains, dah! unless you find a petrified union turd and that is unlikely. his killers were the same as Johns, Martins, Bobbies, maybe Malcolm's. everyone knows to look in the direction of That vacuum cleaner guy, you know the gay hoover salesman yeah that's the one. he had it done, he had allot of things done just because he was a control freak and that's what he wanted, and he was in a position to do so. that is what happens when government is allowed to sell vacuum cleaners especially Hoovers. hoovers are known to suck everything clean. I remember, I did not eat a sausage product for two years no Brats no dogs nothing. not even breakfast sausage. he even contemplated sucking up Churchill and some European stuff. that was the end of the Hoover shop vac, that Churchill thing was early in his carrier, he even collected dirt on Ike and Marilyn Monroe, he had the audacity to stalk Jimmy Stewart and others. its a dirty world we live in, its full of cleaning people. he even had a agent on Ed Sullivan go figure! the Beatles. you name it.

  • 1 vote
#1.39 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:13 AM EDT

What ever happened he is gone.

  • 1 vote
#1.40 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:14 AM EDT

Hey Spence!!! The reason the jobs were out sourced was because your party and your heros. Sold them to the lowest bidders which if there was a union present and I assure you there was not they would have crushed the movement, I actually had to ship my job to overseas locations in the manufacturing industry. The interim VP was good buddies with Dick Cheney and those precious job creators did all the damage that unions would have stamped out. Your comments are like a box of rocks. Like your personality. Fox news is a pretty effective brain washing device isn't it? The only thing worse than the way the rich are treating the poor is the ease in which it is to convince conservatives that it is the right thing to do. Baaaaaaa Plplplplpl

  • 7 votes
#1.41 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:17 AM EDT

Unions are for weak individuals who either don't have the education or ambition to make it on their own. You either have, by your own choice, someone negotiating your wage for you because you are too weak to do it on your own, or either you don't have the ability and ambition to do it on your own. You can have education and ambition, but if you have both, you will find it stifling beyond measure to be held back by the union goons.

The one exception to this statement would be, if in the field where you find employment, that you would have no other choice than to join a union if you wish to work in a particular area, even if you don't wish to become a union member. Otherwise, the combination of education and ambition will pretty much give you what you want out of life. For the rest, they can join unions. They love weaklings.

This applies whether you push a broom for a living, or fly a 747. You can have education and ambition, but if you join a union, then by default, you are giving up your ability to use them both congruently. You will be able to use one, or the other, but not both at the same time. The one exception to this statement would be if your goal is to rise within the ranks of the union leadership.

  • 11 votes
#1.42 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:23 AM EDT

Why are they wasting tax payer money? It makes no sense to me for us to look for a guy who's long dead and likely wouldn't reveal anything to us we didn't already know.

  • 7 votes
#1.43 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:29 AM EDT

ConservativeNotRepublican

Your post is spot on. Unions feed on weakness and submissive individuals. The most confusing part is the teachers. Here we have one of the most, allegedly, educated sectors of our society and they can't negotiate their own values? They need to pay some thugs who could care less about our children’s educational outcomes to determine what they are worth? They succumb to inferior teachers being kept on the payroll as the vast majority tries so hard to do a good job?

How can this be? Obviously they believe tenure is more important than merit. As a result we have the second most expensive education system in the world and some of the worst results in the world. The combination of incompetent government and criminal unions has created most of our problems today, yet many still blame the real engine of our economy, commerce.

Bugfart's post above proves our point. He was obviously not worth his wages, but he will never admit that. Instead he will blame the only chance he will ever have of being employed, the businesses. This is the delusion of the convoluted Liberal mind.

At least I haven't heard the usual Liberal nonsense of a "living wage" lately.

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 for real Americans

  • 11 votes
#1.44 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:13 AM EDT

Qui si trova Jimmy Hoffa e e là qui e oltre modo laggiù e lungo la strada un paio centinaia di miglia.

Translation: Here lies Jimmy Hoffa, and here, and here, and over there and way over there and down the road a couple hundred miles.

E perché nell'inferno è tutto questo parlare di politica in questi commenti. È che tutte le persone possono pensare e troll questi articoli?

You'll need and Italian to English translator for this one.

  • 1 vote
#1.45 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:37 AM EDT

He was crab bait a long time ago, I don't know why they are wasting resources looking for him.

Good posts Mr. Spence tell them the truth they can't stand it. It shows what they really are but don't want to admit.

  • 3 votes
#1.46 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:41 AM EDT

He's buried in Detroit? I thought he was living with Elvis in Argentina.

  • 6 votes
#1.47 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:07 AM EDT

Would be interesting to know how much money has been spent on trying to find Hoffa's body over the years... I would like to have just 10% of it. I suspect I could retire very well on that!

  • 3 votes
#1.48 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:20 AM EDT

Silverback is just another douchebag who insults people for having a narrow opinion without realizing he is doing THE EXACT SAME THING.

It's all corrupt...all of it. If you think this is really one side against the other you are swallowing someone's pills. You think you will get to rub elbows with the Democratic Elite? None of us will.

They aren't working for us they are working for them. Government, unions, AND corporations. But hey...continue your righteous indignation over being labeled while you do the same. So I ask..what is your "justification" for your actions in the face of hypocrisy?

  • 1 vote
#1.49 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:39 AM EDT

Hope they find him so it will be done with and the family will finally know what happened.

I find it funny that both Union and Non-union jobs have gone overseas but, it is always the Unions fault. If you are voting for Romney/Ryan you are either uniformed or choose not to check facts.

Mitt is a moderate no a Ultra Conservative (2010 elections), he is for mandating health care no wait he is against it (Massachusetts health care law he passed). He will hold China accountable wait no he won't(he criticized Obama for doing just that and one of his biggest pact donors runs business in China). He will good at foreign policy wait no he won't (he offended every country he traveled to during the Olympics and wanted us to start another Unfunded war). He will help create jobs with substandard wages for the Corporations that are already making record Profits.(That’s right already making RECORD PROFITS that means business is doing fine it is the workers who are hurting not business). There plan give more tax breaks to Big business and make cuts to programs of those on fixed incomes. BUSH round 3

  • 2 votes
#1.50 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:06 AM EDT

I remember when the rumor was that he was buried in an end zone at the old Giants Stadium in New Jersey, and then-Giants punter Sean Landeta said something to the effect of "Well, that gives new meaning to aiming for the coffin corner."

As for a quote from this article, "Authorities have chased down hundreds of would-be leads since Hoffa disappeared 37 years ago after he met with two top Mafia operatives at a restaurant in Bloomfield Township, another Detroit suburb, in July 1975. All have led to dead ends..."

Ah, you have to love the unintentional puns. Of couse, I'm assuming it's unintentional...

  • 2 votes
#1.51 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:26 AM EDT

Maybe someday, someone can fill me in on, how exactly Obama's birth BS or Romney's tax returns have anything to do the FBI following up on a tip as to where Jimmy Hoffa's body may or may not be buried?

Here is a newsflash, Romney has more money than many of us, and no matter how you try to slice it Obabma is a naturlized US citizen. Get over it people and stay on topic.

  • 2 votes
#1.52 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:25 PM EDT

Hope they find him so it will be done with and the family will finally know what happened.

When your'e rubbed out meeting with the mob bosses over corrupt union activities, does society owe it to your family to spend millions to find out what happened to you? I say let the Teamsters foot the bill.

  • 2 votes
#1.53 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:30 PM EDT
Reply

jimmys not there.jimmys beyond finding.jimmys gone.

  • 2 votes
Reply#2 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 5:52 PM EDT

Was that written in 3rd person by jimmy hoffa

  • 2 votes
#2.1 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:43 PM EDT

As Ronald Reagan said, "well there they go again".

    #2.2 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:58 PM EDT

    What if they find Amelia Erhart's body instead? Just asking...

    • 5 votes
    #2.3 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:03 PM EDT

    @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@$$$$$$$$$$$################***********

    Oh-oh !

    Israel is ready to attack Iran.

    Cut Israeli funding. Tear down the Israeli Apartheid Wall NOW !!!

    • 1 vote
    #2.4 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:27 PM EDT

    There is a little Jimmy in every GMC

    • 7 votes
    #2.5 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:29 PM EDT

    Jimmy is alive and well, in every working Union member's heart. Jimmy will never die. He's a God now. And, killing a God is pretty tough stuff. He increased the working man's salary to a nice wage. You want to villify him for that? Good luck.

    • 2 votes
    #2.6 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:26 AM EDT

    R Battle

    jimmys not there.jimmys beyond finding.jimmys gone.

    I loved that episode of Seinfeld!

      #2.7 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 5:09 AM EDT

      Wait a minute is the article suggesting that the Unions and Organized Labor are somehow connected? Man I never saw that coming. Next thing you will tell me was that Liberace liked guys.

      • 7 votes
      #2.8 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:56 AM EDT

      @ Gtouch,

      With all of the political responses above, this would have been a good place to post what you wrote on another article, about a police dog sniffing the rear-ends of perps, because some of these posters are strung out on some bad sh*t.

      • 2 votes
      #2.9 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 2:00 PM EDT

      Spellchecker your probably right.............that's why your so much smarter than me.

      • 2 votes
      #2.10 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:01 PM EDT
      Reply

      Who cares? It was 37 years ago and finding his body won't solve anything.

      • 17 votes
      Reply#3 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:05 PM EDT

      Seriously, what would be the point of finding him after forever . . . . it's like Amelia Earhart, DB Cooper . . .

      What's the point really? And, do we REALLY need to spend tax dollars on this randomness??? . . . . . I'm just saying . . . . .

      • 8 votes
      #3.1 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:30 PM EDT

      IDIOT, his family cares, that's who!!!! man,you are cold blooded!

      • 10 votes
      #3.2 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:30 PM EDT

      Then let his family pick up the tab.

      Or the Teamsters

      Or the mob

      • 17 votes
      #3.3 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:32 PM EDT

      His kid probably was told where Jimmy was and was told "step out of line and we'll make it a family plot".

      • 13 votes
      #3.4 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:39 PM EDT

      sandyv, like old fat guy says. His family cares? Don't you think they would have been trying harder then?

      • 5 votes
      #3.5 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:40 PM EDT

      I agree, let his family pick up the tab. They would only be using money they've stolen for years from real American workers anyway. Not like any of the Hoffa's really work. Dont believe everything you've seen in the movies.

      • 5 votes
      #3.6 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:42 PM EDT

      He's allright. They just found him the maternity ward having labor pains.

      • 3 votes
      #3.7 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:21 PM EDT

      The Internet said he was the relief night manager for Tu Pac at the 7-11 in Tarzana, CA

      • 2 votes
      #3.8 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:10 PM EDT

      Who cares? It was 37 years ago and finding his body won't solve anything.

      Yes it will.

      That's like saying the police should not follow up on a new lead in the disappearance of one of your loved ones 30 years ago.

      It's called closure.

      Despite if anyone thinks it's relevant or not, it's still an open case.

      • 8 votes
      #3.9 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:46 PM EDT

      Just a waste of tax dollars.

      • 3 votes
      #3.10 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 6:37 AM EDT

      Who cares?

      I do I still have 20 bucks riding on where they find his body............I have it on the old soccer field at "Holy name of Jesus Catholic School and Orphange and Official Rectary of the Immaculate Incarnate of Scripture"............otherwise known as "Holy Jesus". Wonder how my odds are doing.

      • 2 votes
      #3.11 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:01 AM EDT

      @ Gtouch,

      Put me down for $20 on "Holy Jesus" as well.

      • 2 votes
      #3.12 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:58 PM EDT
      Reply

      Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care....

      • 13 votes
      Reply#4 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:13 PM EDT
      Comment author avatarSam Karrasvia Facebook

      hahahaha

      • 4 votes
      #4.1 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:33 PM EDT
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      If I was a news agency I would wait until they make sure there is at least some body there before reporting this.

      What if it turns out to be a bag of mulch?

      • 12 votes
      Reply#5 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:14 PM EDT

      My thoughts too. I find it interesting that the "industry) whose sole function is to keep us informed starts an article with a question that no one can answer. That is NOT journalism...but we already know that about NBC.

      • 11 votes
      #5.1 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:18 PM EDT

      by now, it would be a bag of mulch.

      • 9 votes
      #5.2 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:42 PM EDT
      Comment author avatarMister FidsExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

      totherepublic

      YOU are KNOWN by the places you go and the people you associate with...

      WELCOME ABOARD !! We Liberals LOVE IT when YOU RINO's come here looking for the truth but still whining

      so that you don't let the other RINO's think you are secretly in love with Liberals .

      Without a FOX FORUM for their readers, the slop has flowed over & is flooding NBC

      (the MS has been gone a LONG TIME NOW)

      with the empty heads & dittoheads that THOUGHT FOX wanted them .

      Funny how the ONLY News org that isn't MSM has divested themselves of the Right Wing Nut Jobs....

      YOU have NO HOME

      or any MEDIA that care what you think or what you have to say....

      EXCEPT THE LIBERAL ONES !!!!

      • 2 votes
      #5.3 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:45 PM EDT

      Haha, Sees through gloss, That is funny, it could be another al capone vault...

        #5.4 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:18 PM EDT

        That is NOT journalism...but we already know that about NBC.

        Yet here you are lapping up the articles and posting about them.

        This site thanks you for your click traffic and further re enforcement to keep posting stories like this.

        If you really want to stick it to this site, just stop coming here.

        • 5 votes
        #5.5 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:52 PM EDT
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        And if you think the unions and organized crime have miraculously ceased their affiliations go live in Chicago for a while. Who do you think put...well that is a different story.

        • 18 votes
        Reply#6 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:16 PM EDT

        hahahahahahahahahahahaha . . . . . that's just funny no matter who you are! good one . .

          #6.1 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:32 PM EDT

          Or NY, NH, Detroit, Pittsburgh, LA, St.Louis, Las Vegas, FLorida, Texas... you name it.

          You thing the drug gangs invented crimes and killing, the mafia perfected it and they are still doing it. You just don't hear as much about the mob because they have gotten VERY good at being discreet.

            #6.2 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:16 PM EDT

            J. Egar HOOVER a registered life long REPUBLICAN , CONSERVATIVE & head of the FBI for over 40 years...

            TOLD AMERICA for 40 years that

            THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE MOB

            he refused to jail them, leaving the job to city & state prosecutors ...

            Hoover also spent a month EVERY YEAR on vacation at a hotel that was a KNOWN MOB HANGOUT, Del Charro, a La Jolla, California hotel .

            HOOVER helped the MOB at every opportunity, protected them & gave them forewarnings .

            When you talk MOB you are talking J.Edgar Hoover...Republican & CONSERVATIVE .

            • 5 votes
            #6.3 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:33 PM EDT

            mister

            Who has higher ratings, Fox or msnbc? No need to answer.

            • 1 vote
            #6.4 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:14 AM EDT
            Reply

            Don't wake him from his dirt nap.

            • 2 votes
            Reply#7 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:16 PM EDT

            Who owned the property during the time period that Hoffa went missing. Was the owner tied to organized crime? If so, there is a chance he could be alive and questioned, should the body be found. It was murder and there is no statute of limitations.

            It would be interesting to know the full story.

            • 8 votes
            Reply#8 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:17 PM EDT

            RalphH, your comment took the words right out of my mind. That would certainly be important to know. An innocent homeowner would not allow someone to come onto their property and bury a body and then cover it with cement. If someone were having excavation on their property I suppose they could have unwittingly been a party to a body being buried on their property but the former is more probable than the latter.

              #8.1 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:13 PM EDT
              Reply

              And how much will this cost the US taxpayer???

              • 8 votes
              Reply#9 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:17 PM EDT

              Who cares?

              • 2 votes
              #9.1 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:54 PM EDT

              It's still an open case. Like it or not, law enforcement is obligated to try to close it.

              • 3 votes
              #9.2 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:54 PM EDT

              obama offered the russians billions and they didn't take it so...spend it on american soil.. what the hell...ink and paper...all it is...

                #9.3 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:38 AM EDT

                As much as they want to take from you,lol.

                  #9.4 - Fri Sep 28, 2012 2:47 AM EDT
                  Reply

                  I found him 2 weeks ago buried in my daughter's closet, but damn lost him again under all the junk

                  • 9 votes
                  Reply#10 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:18 PM EDT

                  Who gives a rats ass? It's not like we're looking for Abraham Lincolns Body..this was a gangster..he died a gangsters death..move on..,,

                  • 6 votes
                  Reply#11 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:19 PM EDT

                  Lincoln killed a lot more people than jimmy and the Mafia put together; starting with the Tenn. Legislators.

                    #11.1 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:25 PM EDT

                    so lincoln bad jimmy carter good, got it.

                      #11.2 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:53 PM EDT

                      So now we decide which murders are "acceptable" and which are not? Depending, of course, on our feelings about the victim.

                      Just... wow.

                      • 3 votes
                      #11.3 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:11 PM EDT

                      Was it a Legitimate Death?

                      • 6 votes
                      #11.4 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:12 PM EDT

                      Oh Magoo, you've done it again !

                      (quotes would have ben nice tho)

                        #11.5 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:02 PM EDT
                        Reply

                        I hope Geraldo Rivera does a ten hour special show, "Uncovering the possible burial spot of Jimmy Hoffa", and at the end of course, he finds nothing!

                        • 17 votes
                        Reply#12 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:19 PM EDT

                        Exactly the same thing I was thinking when reading the article. LOL

                        • 1 vote
                        #12.1 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:41 PM EDT
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                        No jimLedden, you've got it all wrong! He was kidnappd by aliens, transported back in time, and made to assasinate Marilyn Monroe, and Jack Kennedy, and cover up Roswell, and teleport that ship in the Philadelphia Experiment, and formulate the DaVinci codes, and cover up that Jesus married Mary Magdelene, and kidnap the crew of the Mary Celeste, and get rid of bigfoot, and the Jersey Devil, and the Loch Ness Monster, and Champ etc, etc, etc, ad naseum.

                        • 8 votes
                        Reply#13 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:20 PM EDT

                        LOL.... good one!!

                        • 1 vote
                        #13.1 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:42 PM EDT

                        LOL.... Good One!

                          #13.2 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:47 PM EDT

                          Don't forget that while on the alien transport he was anally probed. Repeatedly by all accounts from Texas.

                          • 1 vote
                          #13.3 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:14 PM EDT

                          Jimmy Hoffa is in a underground bunker playing cards with two pok,amelia Earhart,Elvis,and Howard hughes.

                            #13.4 - Fri Sep 28, 2012 2:57 AM EDT
                            Reply

                            well that should be a lesson to those who cozy up to unions...

                            • 11 votes
                            Reply#14 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:20 PM EDT

                            Hey ,Scab let it go...

                            • 13 votes
                            #14.1 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:22 PM EDT

                            Never miss an opportunity to demonstrate your ignorance, tex. Unions are the reason you get a weekend, sick leave, maternity leave, health insurance... oh, wait... you're in Texas. Never mind.

                            • 7 votes
                            #14.2 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:43 PM EDT

                            AH ! That special kind speaks their mind

                            it's called TEXAS INTELLIGENCE....

                            you know, the GOV. Rick Perry showed the world how to do it on National TV

                            "There's 3 thing's I'd like to eliminate on my 1st day in office..can anybody else remember what they were?... help me here !"

                            OR as we know UP North...

                            the stupid nut always falls close

                            to the stupid tree

                            and it thrives on it's own stupidity !

                            (in TEXAS they eat their babies)

                            • 2 votes
                            #14.3 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 11:05 PM EDT

                            you mean they "gum" their babies.

                              #14.4 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:51 AM EDT

                              You know why birds fly upside-down over Texas don't you? Because it aint worth $&!%ing on.

                              • 1 vote
                              #14.5 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:22 AM EDT
                              Reply

                              Union had mob connections ! Say it`s not so .

                              • 10 votes
                              Reply#15 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:24 PM EDT

                              it's not so...

                              • 1 vote
                              #15.1 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:00 AM EDT
                              Reply

                              Actually Jimmy Hoffa was found yesterday, alive & well living in Memphis Tn and working a a Memphis hospital working in the maternity ward trying to organise labor.

                              • 7 votes
                              Reply#16 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:26 PM EDT

                              Jimmy swims with the fishes!

                                Reply#17 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:27 PM EDT

                                Is there money in knowing where his body lies? What would one do, sell their story of how he knows where Jimmy Hoffa rests today? I have been curious about this because a man once, after hearing where I was from, told me an elaborate story about how Jimmy Hoffa was captured, killed, transported, and buried in a descriptive location that does exist by my home. I did not know this man, I met him as I waited on a bench for my sister on vacation. Never had the resources though to look into this claim. He may have been crazy for all i know...........

                                  Reply#18 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:27 PM EDT

                                  You met Forrest Gump?

                                  • 2 votes
                                  #18.1 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:12 PM EDT
                                  Reply

                                  Unions & criminals????!!! Say it ain't so! Were all those Dapper Dons who wined & dined Union Officials less than savory characters? Are you telling me that there was/is/will be a criminal element associated with Unions. Darn and I always thought that those thugs who were busting heads at rallys or threatening workers on job-sites or manufacturers were just FORMER criminals. I guess it pays to maintain Union Membership....gotta pay those 'brown bag' dues to keep organized crime in its place...the Union leadership.

                                  • 4 votes
                                  Reply#19 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:27 PM EDT

                                  Something tells me that this tip is the answer to the mystery. I don't know how to explain my premonitions (I've had them before, and they have been accurate). I have followed the Hoffa story since his disappearance and the countless number of tips, and have never before felt compelled by a feeling of such strength to publicly state my belief.

                                  • 5 votes
                                  Reply#20 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:27 PM EDT

                                  rich69. I am very impressed you have come out publicly with this premonition, albeit anonymously. I know that you would not be making this anonymous claim without it being a sure thing. Therefore, I will be placing substantial sums of money on this!

                                  Do you have a premonition on who will win the presidency? or The Voice? The winning lottery numbers? I need the cash, thank you.

                                  • 3 votes
                                  #20.1 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:54 PM EDT

                                  i predict rain...in the rain forest...

                                  • 2 votes
                                  #20.2 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:44 AM EDT

                                  Yes, the Presidency.....Vladimir Putin will win..........oh,this Presidency? The Incumberator will win.....and the numbers...why should I tell you? OK since I'm being unanimous, the numbers are; 1,2,3,4,50. Bet everything you have and sleep well.

                                  • 2 votes
                                  #20.3 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:59 AM EDT
                                  Reply

                                  Anyone who moved a trash bag or luggage in Detroit during July 1975 is a suspect.

                                  • 6 votes
                                  Reply#21 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:28 PM EDT

                                  glad i only moved dead bodies around...during that time frame ...so i'm not a suspect...

                                  • 2 votes
                                  #21.1 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:46 AM EDT

                                  LMAO!!!!!

                                    #21.2 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:05 PM EDT

                                    My thoughts exactly! Every garbage man in Detroit on that day should be questioned...LOL. RIP Jimmy.

                                    • 1 vote
                                    #21.3 - Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:08 PM EDT
                                    Reply

                                    The FBI needs more money. How better to get it than scam the taxpayer!!

                                    • 2 votes
                                    Reply#22 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:28 PM EDT

                                    Jimmy likes Elaine, Jimmy's not threatened by Kramers sexuality, Jimmy's gonna get you George

                                    • 1 vote
                                    Reply#23 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:28 PM EDT
                                    Reply

                                    If for nothing else, I hope this is true and that his body is recovered so that he can rest in peace and bring closure to his family. We all deserve the dignity including Hoffa, whether you liked his politics or not.

                                    • 4 votes
                                    Reply#24 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:30 PM EDT

                                    jimmy haffa is burried in my bathroom.In roscommon county I hada preminition shortly after I bought my cabin in 04.kept haveng the feeling omeone was burried here,Then shortly after they were looking for him up here.I I had given up on the fact and the day I poured the cement in my bathroom floor I unearthed a severed hip bone,I assume its his.I pured the cement any way.I found a cb antena burried next to my well hole.I assume they kept him down the hole and torchered him with it before they bumped him off. My cabin was the only house in the woods off federal aveenue at the time.Built in 43. I guess its just as possable he is her as any were lol

                                      Reply#25 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:31 PM EDT

                                      happened in july?.The dude was probably up here on summer vacation and they brought him up to houghton lake for a visit and to have a good time with him.

                                      • 1 vote
                                      #25.1 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:36 PM EDT

                                      starting to convince myself again lol

                                      • 1 vote
                                      #25.2 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:38 PM EDT

                                      renew your prescriptions.......

                                      • 5 votes
                                      #25.3 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:43 PM EDT

                                      aaahhh houghton lake, tip up town, I miss my home state, GO REDWINGS !

                                      • 4 votes
                                      #25.4 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:57 PM EDT

                                      Houghton Lake!! Higgins Lake! I miss Up North in the summer time. I too miss my home state. Go Wings, Lions and Tigers!

                                      • 6 votes
                                      #25.5 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:13 PM EDT

                                      LOL UP north? You trolls (from under the bridge) always think your UP north...try da UP then you can call it UP north. MARQUETTE RULES!

                                        #25.6 - Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:20 PM EDT

                                        Hey john schomisch,I saw him riding a Harley in his underwear,with a teamster union flag sticking out of his azz,in chicago last week.

                                          #25.7 - Fri Sep 28, 2012 3:12 AM EDT
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