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Hoffa

[ hof-uh ]

noun

  1. James Rid·dle [rid, -l], Jimmy, 1913–75?, U.S. labor leader: president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters 1957–71; disappeared 1975.


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Hoffa was sprung early by President Richard Nixon on the condition he not reclaim his position.

Hoffa vanished from a restaurant parking lot on July 10, 1975, when Zerilli was still in prison.

“Hoffa did not deserve the die the way he did, and I just want him to rest in peace,” Zerilli writes.

“Jack figured that if Hoffa got back in as president, Hoffa and I would still have our arrangement,” Zerilli writes.

Hoffa vowed to go for it anyway, and Zerilli says that Tocco was not at all pleased.

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