Research Paper On Jimmy Hoffa

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Jimmy Hoffa’s full name was James Riddle Hoffa. Jimmy Hoffa was born in Brazil, Indiana on February 14, 1913. Hoffa moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1924 when he was about eleven. After his father who was a popular coal miner passed away when Hoffa was only seven years old. Little did he know he was gonna call Michigan home for the rest of his life. Hoffa began working at Kroger’s warehouse when he was a teenager. The standard wages and abusive supervisors also lack of security made the employees feel animosity. Hoffa showed outstanding leadership when the wildcat escapade happened at the warehouse. Which leads the workers to better pay and better conditions for them.
Then in 1932, he quit his job at Kroger, and the teamsters hired him immediately. …show more content…

Charles Allen said “Hoffa was grounded up in little pieces, shipped to Florida, and thrown into a swamp. Allen also said that Hoffa was killed at the orders of Provenzano. Mafia murderer Charles Allen served prison time with Hoffa. There have been many theories about how he died and where he is. Multiple people have said they know where he is or they did it. The first theory is that he was shot, dismembered, frozen, and buried in the cement foundation of the Giants Stadium, then located in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Before Jimmy Hoffa’s death, a mobster and former friend of his named Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, claimed that he carried out the hit on Hoffa on orders from the boss of the Philadelphia mob, Russell Bufalino. The next theory is that Sheeran shot Hoffa in the head twice then Hoffa was cremated in a trash incinerator. There are a dozen variants of the same basic formula about Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance. The gist of the tale is a quick mob execution followed by some industrial process that destroys Hoffa’s body in an appalling way. The remains are then dumped somewhere that is impossible to search, or Hoffa’s corpse was so thoroughly annihilated that dumping was not necessary. In March 2002, The FBI says it will refer the case to the Oakland County prosecutor’s office for possible state charges. John Bell, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit bureau, says “the federal case was stymied because of the length of time since

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