He built the modern Teamsters from disjointed groups of local ... via G It’s widely believed Hoffa was killed by the mob because he put his members’ interests over theirs.

Teamsters president Jackie Presser had been an FBI informant from 1974 until his death in 1988. He became president of the union in 1983, with backing from the mafia. He was indicted in 1986 and ...

Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance remains one of America’s most chilling unsolved mysteries—and The Irishman reopens the case in a way that’s both cinematic and deeply unsettling. Martin Scorsese’s ...

In 2019, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino collaborated on an epic crime film about Frank Sheeran, a hitman for the Philadelphia Mafia known as “The Irishman.” Sheeran ...

It was funded in the mid 60s, almost entirely by Teamsters money. And so Jimmy Hoffa was treated like royalty," explained Geoff Schumacher, Vice President of Exhibits and Programs at the Mob ...

The love affair between Republicans and the Teamsters ended because, in 1988, Rudolph Giuliani pulled a Bobby Kennedy. Giuliani, at that time a Mob-busting U.S. attorney in Manhattan (this was his ...

Charles Brandt, a lawyer whose best-selling book “I Heard You Paint Houses” was adapted into film as “The Irishman,” recounting the tale of a mobster who claimed he killed former Teamsters ...

The Teamsters paint a positive picture of the man, calling him “a worker’s hero. ... 1982: Self-described mafia murderer Charles Allen, ...