Via the Brazil Times:
Former Teamsters President James Hoffa officially was a missing person today, and speculation he was kidnapped or slain swept the union he once ruled with an iron fist. Michigan’s governor disappeared after planning to meet a reputed Mafia leader.
“I know the police suspect foul play,” said L. Brooks Patterson, prosecutor in Oakland County, where the 62-year old Hoffa lives and where he vanished more than 24 hours before his family notified authorities.
Some union sources said they feared Hoffa’s disappearance would intensify rivalries that already have spilled over into beatings and bombing.
Other reports said the Hoffa family feared he was dead.
Hoffa’s car was found abandoned in a shopping center lot outside a fashionable Bloomfield Township restaurant where Hoffa apparently made a luncheon date.
And, they are still looking for him (to no avail).
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