What unites the three now, in Hoffa's mind anyway, is the sullen desperation of the excluded.
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Normally, you would not invite Nader, Hoffa and Buchanan to the same dinner party.
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What exactly did they do to Jimmy Hoffa, and where did they dispose of his body?
Hoffa, 62, was last seen July 30, 1975, at Machus Red Fox restaurant in suburban Detroit.
Dan Moldea, author of "The Hoffa Wars, " said the tipster, a former gambler, contacted him March 30.
The Teamsters' illicit associations sent a string of leaders to prison, notably the elder Hoffa in the 1960s.
Hoffa remains among America's most famous, and in many ways infamous, missing people.
The top three Americans, Adam Nelson, Reese Hoffa and Christian Cantwell are really considered the top three in the world.
Urban lore long suggested that Hoffa was buried around the end zone at the former Giants Stadium in New Jersey.
During the session, as I understand it, we heard from Jim Hoffa about the importance of trade strategies that open markets.
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In September 2001, the FBI found DNA that linked Hoffa to a car that agents suspected was used in his disappearance.
He worked with Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa to modernize REA's labor contracts.
If Hoffa's burial had taken place at the spot, it would have been in full view of the neighborhood, the author argued.
In 1964, Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa and six others were convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the handling of a union pension fund.
And aside from the possibility of the late Jimmy Hoffa, there are no dead bodies within a few football fields distance of the venue.
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Buchanan, says Hoffa, is good on globalization (meaning he's against it) but not so great on other labor issues (health and safety laws, for example).
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And if Hoffa's body was disposed of, it would have been done in a way that no evidence would be left years later, he said.
In short, Mr Hoffa, who now runs the second-biggest union in the land after the National Education Association (the teachers' union), is not without prospects.
Police and the FBI have searched for Hoffa intermittently ever since.
The only person to challenge Jimmy Hoffa was feisty Bobby Kennedy.
"Rather than being kidnapped by rival union forces as law enforcement authorities have long speculated, Franco says Hoffa was abducted by two federal agents, " Fortune reported.
After his shock defeat at Wimbledon, Nadal was diagnosed with Hoffa's syndrome, an inflammation of the fatty tissue in his left knee which has plagued him in recent years.
All of which explains why Mr Hoffa intends to seek new members among public employees and in those areas, such as nursing homes and hospitals, which have close links with government.
The FBI in Detroit had no comment on the planned search, and a statement from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said the Hoffa family had nothing to say at this time.
The tipster used to do business with a man who had ties to Anthony Giacalone, an organized crime figure who was supposed to meet Hoffa the day he disappeared, Moldea said.
The FBI said at the time that the disappearance could have been linked to Hoffa's efforts to regain power in the Teamsters and to the mob's influence over the union's pension funds.
Hoffa believed Giacalone had set up the meeting to help settle a feud between Hoffa and Provenzano, but Hoffa was the only one who showed up for the meeting, according to the FBI.
Hoffa by steering DNC money to Carey.
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