How many people were “witnesses” against Jimmy Hoffa when he was convicted in Chattanooga Tn?
Conviction and disappearance In 1964, Hoffa was convicted of attempted bribery of a grand juror and jailed for 15 years. On December 23, 1971, however, he was released when President Richard Nixon commuted his sentence to time served on the condition he not participate in union activities for 10 years. Hoffa was planning to sue to invalidate that restriction in order to reassert his power over the Teamsters when he disappeared at, or sometime after, 2:45 pm on July 30, 1975 from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Oakland County, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. He had been due to meet two Mafia leaders, Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone from Detroit and Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano from Union City, New Jersey and New York City. Investigations into his disappearance DNA evidence examined in 2001 placed Hoffa in the car of long-time Teamster associate Charles “Chuckie” O’Brien (who has been described as Hoffa’s “foster son”), despite O’Brien’s claims that
