Moldea had learned his by taking a deep dive into Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters (he was already a published author, of the 1978 bestselling The Hoffa Wars) and by pounding the pavement of the ...

DETROIT — Mob historian and author Andy Petepiece says the feds, historians and investigative reporters have it all wrong when it comes to the killing of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa 41 years ago this ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Class, Race and Corporate Power Vol. 7, No. 2, 2019 The Life and Times of Jimmy Hoffa This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. In ...

Jimmy Hoffa is also known for his 1964 bribery conviction and his efforts, after his 1971 commutation by President Richard Nixon, to reassume control of the union. He disappeared in 1975 ...

As Biography observed ... even publicly challenging Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa for his ties to multiple mob figures, as organized crime had successfully infiltrated a number of labor unions ...

Martin Scorsese’s latest mafia epic features a small but important Jewish plot. (JTA) — “The Irishman,” Martin Scorsese’s latest organized crime epic, became streamable on Netflix this week.

For 36 of its 119 years, the Teamsters had been led by someone with the surname Hoffa. The first, Jimmy, was notorious for using the strength of the union to bolster organised crime. Hoffa was not ...

He waged moral crusades against dangers including foreign enemies (communism, Fidel Castro, the U.S.S.R.); domestic adversaries (corrupt unions, the Mafia); specific people (Jimmy Hoffa ...

Dems need to learn to fight, beginning with battling the biggest prejudice of all in this country—one worse, even, than the prejudices against women and minorities when it comes to electability—being ...

Jimmy Hoffa. His biography of Teamster president Jackie Presser, Mobbed Up, was adapted as the HBO movie “Teamster Boss,” and won the Thomas Renner Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors, a ...

Biographer Bill Zehme died before completing his magnum opus, ‘Carson the Magnificent.’ Then his former research assistant ...

Alongside his brother Jey, Jimmy became an eight-time Tag Team Champion. None of them were as great, though, as when they made history by becoming the longest-reigning Tag Team Champions in WWE ...