Character Analysis: The Hoffa Wars

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On July 30, 1975, a hot summer’s day, Jimmy took his two-door dark green 1974 Pontiac Grandville for his last drive. Earlier in the day, Hoffa, while at his summer cottage, had received a phone call about a meeting to settle a dispute between him and Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano. Hoffa was set to meet Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone, a longtime friend, and Tony Pro at the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan at 2 p.m. (Smith and Roach). Hoffa left his lake house in Lake Orion, Michigan at 11 a.m. for the nineteen-mile ride to the restaurant. Jimmy stopped at Airport Service Lines to see Louis Linteau, but employees told Jimmy that he already left for lunch. He mentioned to the office employees that he was going …show more content…

They were coming in for William Bufalino’s, a Teamsters attorney, daughter’s wedding. This was the perfect time for the hit on Jimmy because the only way Hoffa would meet Tony Pro was in Detroit. This would make Hoffa believe that Tony Pro was coming in for William’s daughter’s wedding. In fact, Tony Pro never had any intention of coming to Detroit. Tony Pro was in New Jersey playing cards with several people in a Teamsters hall (Burnstein). Frank Sheeran, a Delaware Teamster, drove Russell Bufalino, a mob boss, into Detroit the morning of Jimmy’s disappearance. Sheeran picked up three of Provenzano’s hit men, Thomas Andretta, Salvatore Briguglio, and Gabriel Briguglio, and took them to Chuckie O’Brien’s temporary residence waiting to ambush …show more content…

Roland McMaster’s brother-in-law was a head executive there. An FBI informant, Crimaldi, told Kirdner, “Hoffa is now a goddamn hubcap. His body was crushed and smelted (qtd in Moldea 272-273).” Chuckie O’Brien made a similar comment in the months following Hoffa’s disappearance to several witnesses: “Hoffa is now just a fender, being driven around by someone (qtd in Moldea 273).” Another scenario was given to authorities by Ralph Piccardo who was an informant from the Genovese crime family. Little Ralphie told authorities that Hoffa’s body was taken out of Detroit in a steel drum and disposed of in two possible landfills. The two companies were Central Sanitation and Tri-County Santitation both of which were owned by the Detroit mob

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