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	Jimmy Hoffa - MSN Encarta
		Hoffa was born James Riddle Hoffa in Brazil, Indiana.
		Hoffa was long rumored to be associated with organized crime and, beginning in 1957, was the subject of many government investigations and prosecutions.
		Hoffa was last seen at a restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he had an appointment to meet Anthony Provenzano, a Teamster boss and reputed Mafia figure, and Anthony Giacalone, a Detroit mobster, neither of whom would admit to having seen Hoffa that day.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579487/Hoffa_Jimmy.html (378 words)

	Jimmy Hoffa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hoffa was born in Brazil, Indiana and was the son of a poor coal miner.
		Hoffa rapidly advanced through the ranks of the Teamsters union, which organized truckers throughout the Midwest and then nationwide through skillful use of quickie strikes, secondary boycotts and other means of leveraging union strength at one company to organize workers and win contract demands at others.
		Hoffa was planning to sue to invalidate that restriction in order to reassert his power over the Teamsters when he disappeared on 30 July 1975 from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa (1874 words)

	Hoffa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hoffa is a 1992 biopic film based on the life and mysterious death of Teamsters Union leader Jimmy Hoffa.
		Hoffa insists that Ciaro give him a ride, while he talks to Ciaro about the benefits of joining the Teamsters.
		Hoffa gets out at a truck stop, after giving Ciaro his card, which he had wrote "Give this man whatever he needs" on the back.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hoffa (610 words)

	James R. Hoffa Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Hoffa demonstrated his clout when he transformed the local from a 40-member unit with $400 to its name to a 5,000-member unit with $50,000 in the bank.
		Hoffa presumably thought he was being invited to a meeting to work out an arrangement with the mob, but instead he may have been invited to his own murder.
		Hoffa was picked up by several men in a maroon Mercury sedan, was murdered in Detroit and his body was disposed of at a mob-owned sanitation company in Hamtramck, Michigan.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/james-r-hoffa (1157 words)

	Jimmy Hoffa - Demopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Beck was eventually imprisoned for five years and Hoffa became the new president of the Teamsters Union.
		Hoffa was planning to sue to invalidate that restriction in order to reassert his power over the Teamsters when he disappeared on 30 July 1975 from Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m.
		In 2001, DNA tests done by FBI experts have tied Hoffa to his friend’s car, an associate by the name of Charles O'Brien, and charges may still be made in his death.
	demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/Jimmy_Hoffa (717 words)

	The Free Information Society - Jimmy Hoffa Biography
		Jimmy Hoffa was born in the town of Brazil, Indiana on February 14, 1913.
		Hoffa drove a hard bargain with companies, but he was very effective and developed a good reputation among his fellow union members.
		In 1952, Hoffa was elected to become the international vice president of the Teamsters Union and was president by 1957 after the former president, Dave Beck, was put in prison for using union funds to renovate his home.
	www.freeinfosociety.com /site.php?postnum=62 (514 words)

	USATODAY.com - FBI searches Michigan horse farm for Hoffa's remains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hoffa was last seen on a night he was scheduled to have dinner at a restaurant about 20 miles from the farm.
		Over the years, Hoffa's disappearance spawned endless theories — that he was entombed in concrete at Giants Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands; that he was ground up and thrown to the fishes in a Florida swamp; that he was obliterated in a mob-owned fat-rendering plant that has since burned down.
		In 1967, Hoffa was sentenced to 13 years in prison for jury tampering and fraud, but he refused to give up the Teamsters presidency.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2006-05-17-hoffa_x.htm (979 words)

	James R. Hoffa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jimmy Hoffa was born James Riddle Hoffa in Brazil, Indiana.
		By 1933 Jimmy Hoffa was the business agent for Teamster Local 299 in Detroit, and in the early 1940s he formed and led the Michigan Conference of Teamsters.
		Beginning in 1957, Jimmy Hoffa was the subject of many government investigations and prosecutions which ultimately led to his imprisonment in 1967.
	www.perpetuallyonline.com /Hoffa (283 words)

	The myth of Hoffa the reformer
		Hoffa Sr., the union’s general president from 1957 to 1967, was, according to mythology, single-handily responsible for the “golden age” of the Teamsters.
		Hoffa declared himself a candidate for president, but was quickly ruled ineligible because he lacked the prerequisite two years of membership in the Teamsters to qualify.
		Hoffa spokespeople, however, took to the airwaves to attack Carey while 185,000 Teamsters were on the picket line.
	www.socialistworker.org /2005-2/551/551_10_Hoffa.shtml (1237 words)

	Jimmy Hoffa - Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa FBI Files.
		Hoffa quickly rose through the ranks of the Teamsters union by the skillful use of strikes, boycotts, and sometimes less lawful means to archive the objectives of the union.
		Jimmy Hoffa was convicted of attempted bribery of a grand juror in 1967 and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
		Hoffa was planning to sue to gain the right re-enter union activities and to regain his place in the Teamsters.
	www.paperlessarchives.com /hoffa.html (755 words)

	USATODAY.com - FBI: No federal charges in Hoffa disappearance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		FBI scientists used new technology to match the DNA from Hoffa's hair, taken from a brush, with that of a strand of hair found in a borrowed 1975 Mercury Marquis Brougham driven by longtime Hoffa friend Charles (Chuckie) O'Brien on July 30, 1975, the last day Hoffa was seen alive.
		Hoffa's daughter, Barbara Ann Crancer, a municipal judge in St. Louis, Mo., said that the FBI volunteered to mail her a copy of the documents it released Thursday.
		Hoffa told a dispatcher he was on his way to the Machus Red Fox to meet with Anthony (Tony Jack) Giacalone and two other men.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2002/03/29/hoffa-detroit-news.htm (1860 words)

	The Hoffa Wars: Chapter One
		Hoffa, who had decided that McMaster was probably a government informant, wanted Johnson, now secretary-treasurer, to hold major power in the local as his most trusted lieutenant.
		The first rebels to realize that Hoffa had handed them the common ground they needed were the steel haulers in Gary, Indiana, most of whom drove their own trucks and, as owner-operators, had long been exploited by the union.
		According to a former Hoffa aide--later a government informant--who believes his boss was the CIA's initial go-between with the mob in the Castro murder plan, McMaster was Hoffa's liaison to Santo Trafficante during the planning of the assassination in the early 1960s.
	www.moldea.com /Hoffa.html (4356 words)

	JIMMY HOFFA - CoverUps.com
		Jimmy Hoffa led the teamsters from 1957 to 1971.
		Thus Hoffa was convicted of fund fraud, jury tampering and conspiracy, along with teamster Tony "pro" Provenzano, whom Hoffa blamed for drawing federal interest in the first place to his illegal activities.
		Hoffa only served 4 years of his 13 year sentence, because President Nixon commuted his sentence, with the understanding that Hoffa wouldn’t resume his office until 1980, which would’ve been the end of his sentence.
	www.coverups.com /hoffa.htm (782 words)

	RFK Hoffa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As he waited for the Hoffa bribery trial to start, he turned his attention back to Beck....At the end of March, the Rackets Committee called Beck to appear as a witness...Then towards the end of the afternoon it was the turn of the committee's chief counsel.
		Hoffa had hired the best criminal defense lawyer in the country, Edward Bennett Williams, who knew that he had a difficult case--the prosecution had movies of his client handing an envelope stuffed with cash to a federal employee.
		Hoffa told Partin that RFK had a lot of guts to swim alone in his pool and drive around in a convertible.
	www.orwelltoday.com /rfkhoffa.shtml (6038 words)

	The day Jimmy Hoffa didn't come home
		Hoffa was fired the following year after a fight with a plant foreman who goaded the hot-tempered union leaders into throwing a crate of vegetables on the floor and spraying the boss with assorted vegetable juices.
		Hoffa was acquitted but two years later, on Partin's testimony, a jury convicted Hoffa of jury tampering and sentenced him to eight years in prison.
		Hoffa is congratulated by Teamsters members after a 1957 speech in Chicago at a meeting in which he was urged to run for president to succeed Dave Beck.
	info.detnews.com /history/story/index.cfm?id=42&category=people (2987 words)

	Jimmy Hoffa
		George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, did not agree with the verdict and Hoffa and the Teamsters Union were expelled from the association.
		Hoffa was popular with his members and in 1960 was re-elected as president of the Teamsters Union.
		A long-term supporter of the Republican Party, Hoffa was a generous supplier of funds to Richard Nixon in his presidential struggle with John F. Kennedy.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAhoffa.htm (1246 words)

	Hoffa, James Riddle on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hoffa rose swiftly in the Teamsters, in 1952 becoming international vice president and in 1957 succeeding Dave Beck as president.
		Moreover, Hoffa was forced to accept a board of monitors to supervise his activities as Teamsters president.
		Hoffa's power continued to grow, and by 1964 he was able to effect the trucking industry's first national contract.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/Hoffa-J1a.asp (491 words)

	JIMMY HOFFA -- WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FAMOUS LABOR LEADER?
		There was no question that Hoffa had a lot of enemies in his day and perhaps none so powerful as Robert F. Kennedy, the president’s brother and the attorney general from 1961 to 1964.
		Hoffa’s ties to organized crime landed him in prison but it would not be until those same gangsters turned against him would those ties lead to his disappearance and likely murder.
		Hoffa was warned several times by mobsters to stop interfering and trying to regain his position but, not surprisingly, he refused to listen.
	www.prairieghosts.com /hoffa.html (1345 words)

	hoffa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		By 1933 Jimmy Hoffa was the business agent for Teamster Local 299 in Detroit, and in the early 1940s he formed and led the Michigan Conference of Teamsters.
		Beginning in 1957, Jimmy Hoffa was the subject of many government investigations and prosecutions which ultimately led to his imprisonment in 1967.
		Hoffa is reluctant and in February 2000 Hoffa takes a part time job as a police officer.
	www.geocities.com /peteargiro/hoffa.html (1674 words)

	Jimmy Hoffa
		Hoffa was for decades a controversial Teamsters union leader, one with strong connections to organized crime.
		Investigators later were satisfied that Hoffa never got out of that car alive, that he was garroted and his body run through a mob-controlled fat-rendering plant that was later destroyed by fire.
		In the years since 1975, Hoffa has been declared legally dead and most of the suspects in the case have gone to prison for other crimes, some of the convicting evidence having been uncovered during the Hoffa probe.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/hoffa.html (1158 words)

	Amazon.ca: Hoffa: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But when Hoffa stops by his truck while he's trying to catch some sleep, Ciaro can't get rid of him and eventually Hoffa convinces him that what he is proposing isn't such a bad idea.
		It begins with Hoffa making a name for himself then jumps to the future as he is growing more famous, and then even further into the future as he is elected President of the Teamster's.
		Obviously Hoffa was memorable, but even though the movie uses his name as the title, he wasn't the main character in the movie - Ciaro was as the movie was told from his perspective.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00013RC2U (1450 words)

	CNN.com - FBI: Tip on Jimmy Hoffa prompts search - May 17, 2006
		Hoffa believed Giacalone had set up the meeting to help settle a feud between Hoffa and Provenzano, but Hoffa was the only one who showed up for the meeting, according to the FBI.
		The FBI said Hoffa's disappearance could have been linked to the union boss's efforts to regain power in the Teamsters after he was released from prison.
		Hoffa's son, James P. Hoffa, is the current president of the Teamsters.
	www.cnn.com /2006/US/05/17/hoffa.search/index.html (595 words)

	CAN HOFFA DELIVER?
		Although Hoffa has been an unknown quantity in the labor movement and was opposed by most of the AFL-CIO's top leaders, he will be able to swing considerable weight in his new position and as a member of the federation's executive council.
		Hoffa replied by telling Sweeney: "I want it to be known right from the start that I am absolutely committed to working with you and the AFL-CIO to advance the cause of working families." That evening, he was given a reception, sponsored by the United Auto Workers, Building and Construction Trades Department and Transportation Department.
		Hoffa could emerge a hero if he capitalizes on the organizing momentum at Overnight to win a contract from a trucking company that has resisted unionization for 40 years.
	www.laboreducator.org /hoffa.htm (881 words)

	No Luck In Latest Hoffa Search - CBS News
		Nearly 28 years after Hoffa disappeared from the Detroit area, law enforcement officials were combing the site where an informant said a briefcase that purportedly contained information related to the case was buried.
		Hoffa, 62, vanished the afternoon of July 30, 1975, from a parking lot in Oakland County, about 25 miles north of Detroit.
		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.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/07/16/national/main563614.shtml (659 words)

	Jimmy Hoffa Biography: The Jimmy Hoffa Mafia and Kennedy Assassination – EncycloMedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jimmy Hoffa was born on February 14, 1913 as James Riddle Hoffa.
		By 1940, Jimmy Hoffa was president of the Michigan Conference of Teamsters, and in 1952 he became the international vice president of the Teamsters Union under President Dave Beck.
		Hoffa supposedly conspired with, and hired various mobsters to assassinate Kennedy in 1963.
	www.encyclomedia.com /jimmy_hoffa.html (1357 words)

	Amazon.com: Hoffa: DVD: Kevin Anderson,Armand Assante,Don Brockett,Nicholas Giordano,Cliff Gorman,Joe Greco,Paul ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jimmy Hoffa was boss of the Teamsters (truckers) union for many years until he met his demise in 1975 at the hands of the same thugs that helped him secure his place as the union boss.
		Jimmy Hoffa was, in fact, last seen as a swanky restaurant in a swanky suburub of Detroit right down the street from one of the Detroit's biggest PR firms, not at some nickle and dime diner out in the middle of nowhere.
		Hoffa's rage was more or less continuous, based on his public presence, and as strange as this might seem, Nicholson is not up to it.
	www.amazon.com /Hoffa-Kevin-Anderson/dp/B00013RC2U (1922 words)

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