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Jimmy Hoffa was once a legendary figure in U.S labor history and pop culture, but now he’s disappeared and the mafias to question. Hoffa was an important man to the union (he was the president of teamsters). He even went to jail and still led his people. He got into some business with the mafia and disappeared . Some of the theories include the mafia took him or this big shot name tony killed him and committed one of the most perfect crimes. No one knows, not even the FBI can crack the case!

Jimmy had a tough being part of the union with people not taking him seriously enough, so that’s when he hired the mafia and became big shot. ‘ Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa had a lot of enemies’. Jimmy Hoffa did in fact have many enemies such as the attorney general Kennedy. Kennedy made a ‘Get Hoffa’ campaign and that was Kennedy’s top priority That didn’t stop him from putting hoffa in jail , he actually sent the labor leader’s to trial in 1962 for extorting illegal payments from a firm employment Teamsters. …show more content…

‘Hoffa was then nabbed for attempting to bribe one of the jurors.’ Jimmy was then sentenced to prison for eight years.Jimmy then was convicted for taking $1.7 million in union funds.” He fought off entering prison until 1967 and ended up doing 58 months” (Mafia History pg.222) , then had his term commuted in 1971 by president Richard Nixon with provision that he would have to stay out of politics for ten years. Hoffa refused and took legal action against the stipulation . Time by time the mob told Jimmy to cool it and they had manipulation over him so that’s what he

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