In 1964, Hoffa was convicted of misappropriating $1.7 million in union pension funds but managed to stay out of prison until 1967. He ended up serving 58 months and has his sentence commuted by President Nixon with the condition that he stayed out of union politics until 1980, which would have been the full term of his prison sentence. Hoffa didn?t take this condition seriously and he started legal action to get it set aside. In addition, he went ahead with efforts to regain control of the union from his former ?right-hand man?, Frank Fitzsimmons. This maneuver did not sit well with mob leaders, as Fitzsimmons was much easier to manipulate than the stubborn Hoffa and could always be counted on to look the other way. He was also welcome at the White House, which Hoffa was not, and was infinitely more desirable as the head of the union. Hoffa was warned several times by mobsters to stop interfering and trying to regain his position but, not surprisingly, he refused to listen. On July 30, 1975, Hoffa went to the Red Fox Restaurant outside of Detroit to allegedly meet three men, a Detroit labor leader, an important local mobster and a powerful figure in New Jersey Teamster politics. Hoffa arrived first, around 2:00 in the afternoon, but after waiting nearly 30 minutes, none of the others had arrived. Annoyed, he called his wife and told her that he was going to wait for a few more minutes before giving up. This was the last time that she ever spoke with her husband. At 2:45, Hoffa was seen getting into a car in the restaurant parking lot with several other men. Investigators are pretty sure that he never got out of the car alive. According to FBI investigators, Hoffa had been brought to a peace conference with mobster Anthony ?Tony Pro? Provenzano and then had been killed. Provenzano was just one of the long list of suspects in Hoffa?s disappearance, although he had a good alibi at the time of the union leader vanished. In fact, some would say that it was too good. Tony was apparently touring a number of union officials around Hoboken, New Jersey on July 30. He made not have actually ?done the deed? but that did not mean that he wasn?t involved. Provenzano was far from alone on the suspect list. The number of possible killers grew as investigators probed their underworld connections and spoke with convicts who were looking for reductions in their sentences. The main suspects were Provenzano, Russell Bufaliano and two Hoffa cronies, Thomas Andretta and Gabriel Briguglio. Another suspect, Briguglio?s brother, Salvatore, was believed to be informing to the FBI when he was shot to death in March 1978. As the investigation continued on, loose ends began to unravel everywhere. One of the most obvious mysteries was why Provenzano would have linked himself to a meeting with Hoffa if he planned to kill him? This seemed almost as odd as why the men who were supposed to kill Hoffa showed up 45 minutes late! This was not the usual for mob hitmen, who find punctuality certainly makes the job easier. These questions notwithstanding, the authorities were able to track down the auto that Hoffa got into and they did find traces of blood and hair inside. They were convinced that Hoffa got into the car and then was garroted from behind. But was he really killed? Some insisted that he was not. One union official, after long bouts of questioning by the FBI, swore that Hoffa had skipped off to Brazil with a ?black go-go dancer?. Supposedly, this was the inside story among union members! In all reality though, it is unlikely to be the truth. In the years since 1975, Hoffa has been declared legally dead and most of the suspects in the case are dead themselves or have gone to prison on other charges. Any convictions for the murder of the vanished union leader would depend on testimony from an inside source - and don?t look for that anytime soon! As one unidentified union official stated: ?We all know who did it. It was Tony and those guys of his from New Jersey. It?s common knowledge. But the cops need a corroborating witness, and it doesn?t look like they?re about to get one, does it?? There have been many stories and theories about what happened to Hoffa that day. Here are a few of them: - According to Ralph Picardo, the convict who gave up the main suspects in the case, Hoffa?s body was put in a 55-gallon steel drum and carted away in a truck. Picardo said he didn?t know where it was taken but one theory had it that the drum was buried on the grounds of Brother Moscato?s garbage dump, a toxic waste site in Jersey City, New Jersey. - According to another snitch, Hoffa?s body was taken to New Jersey where it was mixed into the concrete that was used to construct the New York Giant?s football stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. He was also said to have been encased in the foundation of a public works garage in Cadillac, Michigan and buried under the helipad at the Sheraton Savannah Resort Hotel, which at the time of his disappearance was owned by the Teamsters. - Hoffa was said to have been buried in a gravel pit in Highland, Michigan, which was owned by his brother William; crushed in an automobile compactor at Central Sanitation Services in Hamtramck, Michigan or buried in a field in Waterford Township, Michigan. - He was also alleged to have been ground up at a meat processing plant and then dumped in a Florida swamp or disintegrated at a fat-rendering plant. Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1982, but his case remains open. A special agent at the FBI?s Detroit field office is still assigned to it. The investigation has generated over 16,000 pages of documents gathered from interviews, wiretaps, and surveillance, but despite the government?s best efforts to get to the bottom of Jimmy Hoffa?s disappearance, what really happens to him remains a mystery.
Already everyone is calling it " the new Giants stadium" and as far as tailgateing. It looks as if it is going to be in a tailgating section.
Yea, we need to stop calling it the "New GIANTS Stadium" get it out of your lingo forever. That stupid blue sign is getting imploded along with the rest of the dwarfs cement toilet bowl.
Are they selling the name off to make back some of the money? Cuz this thing better not be named after the friggin Giants again.....
I have about 20 million extra change .. Imma try to purchase the Naming Rights and call it Jets staduim.
Doesn't look that great but i don't know the pictures weren't that detailed of the stadium itself. I'll reserve judgement.
its already been said that the name will be neutral. im not sure but i think there gonna have lights that will color the stadium green or blue, with grey seats... but im not sure.
If Herm were still here, the large corporation that manufactures and distributes anal suppositories could call it "Preparation-H Stadium."
Judging by the content of this thread what if they called it "Jimmy Hoffa Stadium"?? :rofl: Sorry......
Why? He gets the same stadium for half the price and doesn't have to cowtow to the same asinine NYC politicians who voted down the WSS. Plus, Queens was no slam dunk. There were people lining up to protest that because Flushing Meadow Park would have been gone. I think he would have been an ass to go crawling back to NYC after the hatchet job they did on the Jets and WSS proposal. By the way, how's Cablevision's development of the Hudson rail yards coming along???? How much new revenue is being brought into the city now the WSS is dead?
I doubt they will be able to force everyone into the tailgating zones but there will be less parking by the stadium. I know the breakdown says almost the same amount of parking but alot of that will be parking garage. This stadium looks like even more of a traffic nightmare
I think they are refurbishing the current stadium. That's what all these plans look like they are doing and taking out the parking lots along near the road inbetween the Stadium & Arena for that Lightrail station.
