Jimmy Hoffa

FBI Searches for Jimmy Hoffa Beneath Jersey City Bridge
Organized crime

The FBI last month conducted a survey of land beneath an elevated New Jersey freeway in search of the body of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975. Hoffa, 62, was last seen in Detroit, Michigan, on July 30, 1975, when he was supposed to meet with a pair of reputed Mafia figures at …

From the driver’s seat: My conversations with Jimmy Hoffa’s former driver
Organized crime
July 2, 2018

From the driver’s seat: My conversations with Jimmy Hoffa’s former driver

Jimmy Hoffa disappeared without a trace after making a call home from a pay phone on July 30, 1975. It’s been 43 years, but one of his associates told me what it was like working for the notorious leader of the Teamsters. Marvin “The Weasel” Elkind will tell you driving for the mob was an …