And no insensitivity intended, but why is the federal government wasting tax money on it?
"Federal agents renew hunt for Hoffa’s remains" Associated Press, June 18, 2013
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Federal agents revived the hunt for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa on Monday, bringing excavation equipment to a field in suburban Detroit where a reputed Mafia captain says the body of the Teamsters boss was buried.
Detroit is already in a deep enough hole.
Robert Foley, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit division, said the agency and its partners had a search warrant allowing them to dig at the property in Oakland Township, about 25 miles north of Detroit.
Officials are ‘‘here to execute a search warrant, based on information that we have involving the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa,’’ Foley said.
He said the warrant was sealed, and details about what was sought would not be released.
Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard, who joined Foley at a news conference, said it was his ‘‘fondest hope’’ to bring closure for Hoffa’s family and the community.
Hoffa, Teamsters president from 1957-71, was an acquaintance of mobsters and an adversary of federal officials.
Yeah, we all know who he was. We need another one now, and not the son.
The day in 1975 when he disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant, he was supposed to be meeting with a New Jersey Teamsters boss and a Detroit Mafia captain.
Since then, multiple leads to his remains have turned out to be red herrings.
Amerikan media is good at chasing those.
In September, police took soil from a suburban backyard after a tip Hoffa had been buried there. It was just one of many fruitless searches. Previous tips led police to a horse farm northwest of Detroit in 2006, a Detroit home in 2004, and a backyard pool two hours north of the city in 2003.
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"FBI comes up empty in Hoffa search" June 20, 2013
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Beneath a pool, under a horse farm, and now a weed-grown field north of Detroit. For at least the third time in a decade, FBI agents grabbed shovels and combed through dirt and mud in the search for Jimmy Hoffa’s remains or clues to the disappearance of the former Teamsters boss.
Once again, the search was futile.
At least the FBI pukes got dirty.
“Certainly, we’re disappointed,” Detroit FBI chief Robert Foley told reporters Wednesday as authorities wrapped up another excavation that failed to turn up anything linked to Hoffa, who has been missing since 1975.
Many think Hoffa ran afoul of the mob and was killed.
“Right now the case remains open,” Foley said. “At this point, if we do get logical leads and enough probable cause that warrant the resources to do an investigation, then we’ll continue to do so.”
The latest search for Hoffa’s remains was prompted by a tip from reputed former Mafia captain Tony Zerilli. About 40 FBI agents searched a small field surrounded by trees and a gravel road in Oakland Township. With the aid of a backhoe, they spent about 10 hours in the field on Monday and another 10 Tuesday before calling it quits about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Hoffa was last seen on July 30, 1975, when he was to meet with reputed Detroit mob enforcer Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone and alleged New Jersey mob figure Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano at a restaurant in Bloomfield Township, north of Detroit. Hoffa, 62, never was seen or heard from again.
Other theories have suggested Hoffa was entombed in concrete at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, ground up and thrown in a Florida swamp, or obliterated in a mob-owned fat-rendering plant.
That would make his body kind of hard to find.
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Related: Digging Up a Post About Detroit
Has anyone checked the corners of the Meadowland's end zones?
Also see: Detroit Declares Bankruptcy
Of more immediate concern, yeah.
