He became president of the union in 1983, with backing from the mafia. He was indicted in 1986 and died before he was convicted. The Teamsters’ record of corruption was astonishing: ...

Teamsters are losing their jobs — and there is one labor leader to blame By . ... It’s widely believed Hoffa was killed by the mob because he put his members’ interests over theirs.

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 ...

It was 49 years ago this week that the former Teamsters union leader, Jimmy Hoffa, vanished without a trace, and the Hoffa riddle is a befitting title for the anniversary week of his disappearance.

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 ...

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, ...