Jimmy Hoffa: New lead points to Jersey landfill
Jimmy Hoffa is back in a big way.
He’s not grinding America to standstill with a Teamsters strike, facing off against the feds or passing fat envelopes to gangsters.
But in the wake of Martin Scorsese’s Mob epic The Irishman, there is renewed interest in the labour leader who vanished in 1975.
Now, a leading Mob expert tells the Detroit Free Press he knows where Hoffa is buried.
Hoffa vanished on July 30, 1975 from a suburban Detroit restaurant after being stood up by two mobsters.
Dan Moldea claims Hoffa’s final destination was a landfill near Jersey City called Brother Moscato’s Dump.
“I’ve never seen a lead this good for Hoffa’s body,” Moldea told the Free Press.
“I’ve been on six of these (digs) myself, and I’ve come away from all of them disappointed. But nothing was even in the same universe as this.”
Moldea has been covering the Hoffa mystery from the start and wrote a book called The Hoffa Wars.
According to the Mob maven, a new lead has aligned the cast of characters, the timeline and the correct info.
He told Fox News his new information comes from Frank Coppola, whose father, Paul, was a partner in the dump when Hoffa disappeared. He claims his father made a deathbed confession in 2008.
The prevailing theory was always that Hoffa was whacked in Detroit not long after calling his wife to say he had been stood up.
His body was then stuffed in a drum that was loaded on a truck and taken to New Jersey, where Paul Coppola used a front-end loader to bury the barrel.
It was then covered by 15 to 30 other barrels that contained chemical waste. A marker stood in testimony where the union chief was planted.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) closed the site in the early 1980s because it was toxic, and for the most part, it is now a park.
“We have reason to believe that it was not part of that EPA cleanup and that it was not moved,” Moldea said.
He added that shipping Hoffa’s body to New Jersey may have seemed like a gamble, but telling feds the location in the event of an indictment could be used as a get-out-of-jail-free card.
As for The Irishman, which claimed Frank Sheeran took Hoffa off the board, Moldea said it’s a “great movie” but “bad history.”
It’s believed Hoffa was whacked by the Mafia because he was going to drop a dime on his successor as Teamsters president, the impeccably corrupt Frank Fitzsimmons.
Mobsters had their tentacles buried deep into the union, including its pension funds which provided gasoline for various and sundry rackets.
FBI agents in Detroit told the Free Press they were unaware of the latest development but would be willing to search the dump to once and for all end the 44-year-old mystery of Hoffa’s disappearance.
It’s believed Hoffa was whacked by the Mafia because he was going to drop a dime on his successor as Teamsters president, the impeccably corrupt Frank Fitzsimmons.