The writer, a Washington investigative journalist specializing in organized crime and political corruption investigations, is a Jimmy Hoffa murder specialist. He is the author of “The Hoffa Wars” (1978) and eight other books. By Dan Moldea Don and Monica Wells, at their one-time horse farm in Wixom in 2009, which was dug up by the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Mob historian and author Andy Petepiece says the feds, historians and investigative reporters have it all wrong when it comes to the killing of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa 41 years ago this month. In a piece in Gang Land News, an online site specializing in mobster news, Petepiece dismisses decades…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — It has been anything but dull since David P. Gelios arrived eight months ago from FBI headquarters in Washington to head up the Detroit FBI office. For one, his agents have been busy probing the highly-publicized Flint water crisis. And then there’s the kickback scandal in Detroit Public Schools…
Jimmy Hoffa By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — I remember back in 1983 interviewing Jimmy P. Hoffa about his father’s disappearance and asking if it bothered him that comedians like Johnny Carson used his father as a punch line in jokes. Eight years had passed since his disappearance, but time didn’t seem to soften the…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — The former acting boss of the Detroit mob, Anthony (Tony Z) Zerilli, who triggered a massive FBI dig in northern Oakland County in 2013 in search of James R. Hoffa, died several days ago of natural causes in the Ft. Lauderdale area. He was 87. Scott Burnstein, a…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — As we thought would be the case, the PBS show Tuesday night on Jimmy Hoffa — “Who Killed Jimmy Hoffa?” — didn’t crack the case as the pre-show hype suggested it might. And it certainly didn’t leave you feeling as if you knew what really happened to the Teamster boss….
