FBI COMES UP EMPTY IN SEARCH FOR HOFFA

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Author Message   Mzuri "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Mzuri Post Number: 531 Registered: 01-2006 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - 05:33 pm:        Aren't we supposed to be trying to catch the terrorists. Aren't we supposed to be re-building NOLA??? Aren't we in debt to the Chinese??? Who the F#&$*@CK!!! GIVES A F#&$*@CK!!! about a dead a$$ mobster??? Gawd our govt is a bunch of stupid idiots!!! FBI comes up empty in search for Hoffa By TOM KRISHER, Associated Press Writer 30 May 2006 The FBI said Tuesday it found no trace of Jimmy Hoffa after digging up a suburban Detroit horse farm in one of the most intensive searches in decades for the former Teamsters boss. The two-week search involved dozens of FBI agents, along with anthropologists, archaeologists, cadaver-sniffing dogs and a demolition crew that took apart a barn. Louis Fischetti, supervisory agent with the Detroit FBI, said he believed the tip that led agents to the farm was the best federal authorities had received since 1976. The agency planned to continue the investigation into Hoffa's 1975 disappearance. "There are still prosecutable defendants who are living, and they know who they are," said Judy Chilen, assistant agent in charge of the Detroit FBI. The farm was once owned by a Hoffa associate and was said to be a mob meeting place before the union boss' disappearance. Hoffa vanished after he went to meet two organized crime figures. Investigators have long suspected he was killed by the mob to prevent him from reclaiming the presidency of the Teamsters after he got out of prison for corruption. But no trace of him has ever been found, and no one was ever charged. The farm was just the latest spot to be dug up in search of clues to Hoffa's fate. In 2003, authorities excavated beneath a backyard pool a few hours north of Detroit. The following year, police ripped up floorboards in a Detroit home to test bloodstains. But the blood was not Hoffa's. Over the years, some have theorized that Hoffa was buried at Giants Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands; ground up and thrown into a Florida swamp; or obliterated in a mob-owned fat-rendering plant. The FBI began the excavation on May 17, digging at Hidden Dreams Farm, 30 miles northwest of Detroit. The search started after a tip from Donovan Wells, an ailing federal inmate who once lived on the farm and was acquainted with its former owner, 92-year-old Hoffa associate Rolland McMaster, according to a government investigator. McMaster's attorney Mayer Morganroth said he was not surprised that the search was wrapping up with the mystery unsolved. "We never expected that anything was there," he said, adding that the FBI probably felt pressured to respond to the tip, lest it seem as if it were not trying to solve the case. The FBI said the search was expected to cost less than $250,000. The government plans to pay for the barn to be rebuilt. While many veteran investigators and Hoffa experts were skeptical about the search, the little community of Milford Township seemed to relish the attention. A bakery sold cupcakes with a plastic green hand emerging from chocolate frosting meant to resemble dirt. Other businesses sold Hoffa-inspired T-shirts and put up signs with wisecracks such as "Caution FBI Crossing Ahead." Hoffa was last seen on July 30, 1975. He was scheduled to have dinner at a restaurant about 20 miles from the farm. He was supposed to meet with a New Jersey Teamsters boss and a Detroit Mafia captain, both of whom are now dead. ___ Associated Press writers Sarah Karush in Detroit and Ken Thomas in Washington contributed to this report. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060530/ap_on_re_us/hoffa_search   Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 2217 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 01:29 pm:        They ain't stupid. They know what happened to him. They were in on it. It wasn't just the Mob who didn't want him getting back into the Unions--it was the heads of the big trucking companies and sundry other pillars of the community. He should have kept his end of the bargain. He didn't and got whacked by some of his old associates. Everybody knows that Chuckie O'Brien, Tony Pro and them mob guys did it but they were doing the business community a service. Every now and then they engage in this excercise to let the rest of us--especially the Union guys-- know that they can do this and get away with it.   Mzuri "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Mzuri Post Number: 536 Registered: 01-2006 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 01:53 pm:        But it's been thirty years ago that he disappeared! Shouldn't our govt be worrying about something else? This is a blatant case of wasted taxpayer dollars.   Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 2220 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 02:11 pm:        Right now the Unions are getting restive about all this outsourcing and give backs on the pensions and benefits and medical. If any money is wasted it ain't their money. It's like when a cop whips your head with a nightstick. You paid for it.