-Caveat Lector-
At least twice in the past, I have posted saying that if you want
to find Hoffa, ask Chuckie O'Brien and look what came out today.
Looks like I may be right on this for I did not say Chuckie did
anything with Hoffa, just that he knows and I know he knows.
~Amelia~
Hoffa Hair Found in Car
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>From Yahoo.com. Link at bottom of page.
Friday September 7 10:13 AM ET
DETROIT (AP) - A hair from Jimmy Hoffa was found in a car that a
longtime friend was driving the day the former Teamsters president
disappeared 26 years ago, The Detroit News reported Friday.
FBI scientists matched DNA from hair taken from Hoffa's brush with
that of a strand found in the borrowed car that Charles ``Chuckie''
O'Brien had been using on July 30, 1975, the newspaper reported,
citing unidentified two sources familiar with the investigation.
O'Brien has maintained Hoffa never was in the car, and he
repeatedly has denied any role in Hoffa's disappearance.
Hoffa, the legendary Teamsters boss from 1957 until 1971,
disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant and is presumed dead. He
was 62. His son is now Teamsters president.
Hoffa disappeared after going to the Machus Red Fox restaurant in
Bloomfield Township, ostensibly for a meeting with reputed Mafia
figure Anthony Giacalone and New Jersey Teamsters boss and
underworld associate Anthony Provenzano.
Neither man showed up; both said no meeting had been scheduled.
The car O'Brien was using was owned by Giacalone's son Joe.
Investigators believe Hoffa was picked up outside the restaurant
and killed. Despite a massive investigation, his body never has
been found.
Investigators and Hoffa family members have said O'Brien, who was
taken in by Hoffa as a child, was one of the few people who could
have persuaded Hoffa to get into a car that afternoon.
``We have re-interviewed Mr. O'Brien, but I can't say anything more
about that,'' said John E. Bell Jr., special agent in charge of the
Detroit FBI bureau.
O'Brien could not be reached for comment after phone calls were
placed to his office in Memphis, Tenn., the newspaper said.
Bell said DNA tests were done on all the evidence, but he declined
to comment on the results. Federal agents have met regularly in the
past 11 months to discuss the case, Bell told the newspaper.
Dawn Clenney, an FBI spokeswoman in Detroit, told The Associated
Press on Friday she had no immediate comment about the report.
Hoffa's son, Teamsters President James P. Hoffa, said through a
union spokesman that he did not want to speculate on the impact of
the DNA evidence.
In a statement Friday, Teamsters spokesman Bret Caldwell added:
``The union is heartened by news of a possible breakthrough in the
case. We hope those who are responsible for the disappearance of
the general president's father are brought to justice in a prompt
manner.''
Hoffa's daughter, Barbara Ann Crancer, said she was aware last
winter that the FBI was conducting DNA tests.
``He (O'Brien) was driving the car the day my father disappeared in
the vicinity of the Red Fox,'' said Crancer, who is a judge in St.
Louis. ``If my dad's hair was in the car, he was there.''
Federal officials said they hoped to decide whether to prosecute
someone in connection with the Hoffa case no later than December
2003, according to a federal court affidavit filed in June.
In October 1975, the FBI said in a memo that the disappearance was
likely connected to Hoffa's attempts to regain power within the
Teamsters Union and its possible effect on the mob's control of
Teamster pension funds.
``Our theory of the case hasn't changed,'' Bell said.
Hoffa Hair Found in Car
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