Anthony Nixon And The Mafia

Hoffa had been on the phone with his wife the night he disappeared. “On this day 40 years ago, former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa called his wife, Josephine, from a pay phone in Bloomfield Township to say he had been stood up at an afternoon meeting with two mobsters.” (usatoday.com) This quote digs right into the passage. One theory states that the Mafia killed Hoffa. “The main one presented to a grand jury was that the Mafia killed to prevent him from disclosing mob infiltration of the Teamsters, including its tapping into the union’s pension fund to finance its rackets.”

A man suddenly disappears on July 30, 1975 in Michigan. That man was the powerful leader of the Teamsters union, James Riddle Hoffa. He was sentenced to prison, but later on he was pardoned by President Nixon. About four years after being pardened, on July 30th, 1975, he disappears. He was last heard from in Bloomfield Township after arranging a meeting. Some believe he just lived under a new name and lived out the rest of his days, while others believe the Mafia actually killed him. Jimmy Hoffa was killed by the Mafia because government officials didn’t want him to rise and gain more power.

On July 30, 1975 at the age of 62 Jimmy Hoffa vanished from the face of the earth without a trace. Jimmy Hoffa was the leader of the teamsters union, but also he had ties with the mafia. Because of his union leadership many working Americans considered Hoffa their hero, but he also had powerful enemies. The question that stills has everyone baffled today is that did he die and if so who killed him. I think that Hoffa got murdered by a mafia hit man by the name of Frank “The Irishman”Sheeran. Frank is a WW2 veteran that loved to kill after he came back from the war he began to have ties with the mob and became a hitman for them. Frank and Hoffa were best friends for 20 plus years. I know what you're thinking why would somebody kill their friend

Jimmy Hoffa was a very powerful leader and president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehouseman, and Helpers of America, whose mysterious disappearance, suspected of being Mafia connected, on July 30, 1975 has never been solved. Hoffa was a major figure in the Supermob, the go-betweens of the upper world and the mafia world. As the Teamster president, Jimmy had two very important voters: his members and the gangsters that helped him move up the ladder to union success. Hoffa served his gangster associates by writing them into Teamster union power and Teamster union pension-fund cash. In his Supermob role, Hoffa did more to expand the affluence of the gangs and knit them into the fabric of American life

The mafia also had reason to want JFK dead or not to be president. Because “Attorney General Robert Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy waged the largest war against the mafia that America has ever seen. They especially targeted Louisiana-Texas godfather Carlos Marcello.” (Waldron 264). Robert Kennedy was trying to crack down on organized crime in court and in the press the week before the assassination Robert Kennedy had a series of stories published about how he was about to take down the mafia in Las Vegas (Waldron 264). Carlos Marcello told two of his closest associates that he had JFK killed and that he was glad he did but one of those associates was an undercover FBI informant. The FBI informant also took a polygraph test after he was released from prison and that polygraph test showed that Carlos Marcello had told him that he had JFK killed. (Waldron 61-62). “By early 1963, Carlos Marcello appears to have been working with well connected New Orleans private detective Guy Banister and pilot David Ferrie to set up Lee Harvey Oswald in relation to JFK’s assassination (Waldron 167). Carlos Marcello had reasons to want John F. Kennedy dead and he also confessed to an undercover FBI informant that he had JFK assassinated. He also had a plan to be able to cover it up and pin it on Lee Harvey Oswald when he started working with a New Orleans private detective.

¨The Mob hated JFK and his family. Giancana had longtime ties to the Kennedy clan, going back to JFK's father, Joseph P. Kennedy, who was involved with Giancana in the bootlegging business during Prohibition. Additionally, Gianciana was an associate of singer Frank Sinatra, a close Kennedy friend, and allegedly was a donor to JFK's 1960 Presidential campaign, at a time when politicians weren't required to disclose their deep-pockets contributors. The Mob set up JFK and voted for him. In 2009, Tina Sinatra, daughter of Kennedy friend of Frank Sinatra, told the TV program 60 Minutes that the legendary singer at the behest of JFK's father, Joseph P. Kennedy approached Giancana. Sinatra allegedly asked Giancana to use mob muscle to pressure local union members to vote for JFK. The Mob also didn’t like that he had failed to remove Fidel Castro. The mob certainly had potential motives. Several mob leaders were upset that Kennedy had failed to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who had closed down their lucrative casinos in Havana after he took power in 1959. The President's brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, further had aroused their animosity by launching a high profile probe of organized crime and aggressively pursued Teamsters Union leader Jimmy Hoffa for alleged corruption and ties to the Mafia. The Mob had lots of bad things happen with the JFK family, but was it enough for them to kill JFK themselves? I could have happened but others could have had done iti too but we don’t

In June 1972, Nixon campaign people broke into the Democratic National Committee’s Watergate Central Station, stole duplicates of top-mystery archives and destroyed the workplace’s telephones. But after that they were captured inside the workplace of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), situated in the Watergate working in Washington D.C. Nixon tried to cover the activities of his people before the operation was done by the Watergate secret activities. He tried to stop the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) from investing the activities, vanishing the proofs and changing and terminating the staff members. This act was an abuse of presidential power which was later found, and the president had to surrender.

Jimmy Hoffa was a very powerful leader and president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehouseman, and Helpers of America, whose mysterious disappearance, suspected of being Mafia connected, on July 30, 1975 has never been solved. Hoffa was a major figure in the Supermob, the go-betweens of the upper world and the mafia world. As the Teamster president, Jimmy had two very important voters: his members and the gangsters that helped him move up the ladder to union success. Hoffa served his gangster associates by writing them into Teamster union power and Teamster union pension-fund cash. In his Supermob role, Hoffa did more to expand the affluence of the gangs and knit them into the fabric of American life than

President Richard Nixon did several things while in office that eventually led to his resignation in 1974. The most significant is that he plotted to wiretap and steal from different offices and other spaces to gather information to help lead to re-election and he also tried to cover up and lie about the scandal when it all unfolded. 1) “Nixon created a special investigative unit known as the “plumbers” to gather information…” (Foner, GML, 1031). These “plumbers” were all former employees for the CIA, which later led the FBI to believe that the break-ins where operated by the CIA. When the scandal broke, the uncovered White House tapes also led to his resignation. 2) He was heard saying on the Smoking Gun tape, “Yeah, when I saw that news summary

MAFIA - "a secret association having for its object the illicit control of any enterprise, legitimate or illegitimate, which it decides to infiltrate" (Allen 6).

Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner in Dallas, murdered Lee Harvey Oswald as Oswald was being transferred to the county jail. Although Ruby has never been linked conclusively to the mafia, it is possible that the nature of his business required him to cross paths with underworld criminals. Ruby may have been told by a high ranking person in the mafia to kill Oswald so he couldn’t tell anything to the police.

Finally, the C.I.A., Oswald ,and Ruby had many connections with the assassination of Kennedy.Ruby was known for his mob relations and kept the mob still as an assumed

This essay is to show you what Jimmy Hoffa’s life was like and what may have happened to him on the day that he disappeared, but first it will inform about his life prior to the disappearance. Hoffa was born in Brazil, Indiana on February 14, 1913, to Indiana natives John and Viola Hoffa. His father, who was of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, died in 1920 when Hoffa was 7 years old. The family left to live in Detroit in 1924, where Hoffa grew up and lived out his life. Hoffa left school at age 14 and began working full-time manual labor jobs, to help support his family. Hoffa met Josephine Poszywak, a Detroit laundry worker, at Bowling Green, Ohio on September 24, 1936; during a

Imagine living in a world where crime ruled. A world where gangsters were more powerful than politicians, owned the police, and ran the city in whatever way they felt. They robbed whom they wanted and killed when they didn't get their way. Now stop imagining and realize that this happened here in the United States of America in the 1920's. It was run by an organization made up mainly of Italians called the Mafia.

The Italian Mafia in the U.S. can trace its origins all the way back to the Sicilian Mafia which was founded in Sicily during the 1800’s (Italian Organized Crime). After thousands of years of different armies with different nationalities conquering Italy and exploiting its people, the Sicilians became to be more clannish and family focused. Originally they were just resistance fighters that were protecting their friends and family. They were relied on for protection, justice, and survival. Nobody cared if they got money from it because it came from the oppressive authorities. Members of these groups were known as “Men of Honor” and they were well respected and even admired because they looked out for their family and kept silent sometimes even unto death. They didn’t become an organized crime group until the 1920’s however (Italian Organized Crime). It was around this same time that the US began to see what later became La Cosa Nostra or “our thing,” better known as the American Mafia which was aided by the “thousands of Italian organized crime figures, mostly Sicilian Mafiosi” who came to the United States illegally (Italian Organized Crime). The modern American Mafia is credited to Charles “Lucky” Luciano who came over in the 1920’s (Italian Organized Crime). Luciano structured La Cosa Nostra just like their Sicilian