Gang Land’s Jerry Capeci writes
Nearly 41 years after the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, and a year after Gang Land published an exclusive account about Hoffa’s murder by investigative journalist Dan E. Moldea, the leading expert on the late Teamster’s Union president, Gang Land’s own mob-historian says the theory espoused by Moldea – as well as the FBI – about the great Mafia mystery is all wet.
Mr. Capeci writes, In response to numerous reader inquiries about the case, Andy Petepiece opines in a special Ask Andy report this week that it’s a “safe bet” that none of the “usual suspects” from New Jersey or Pennsylvania who’ve been cited by Moldea – and the FBI over the years – had anything at all to do with Hoffa’s murder, or the disposal of his body back on July 30, 1975.
Mr. Capeci writes, Motor City mobsters from Detroit were the likely perpetrators, writes Petepiece, who credits a murderous mob associate named Ralph Picardo with concocting erroneous accounts linking Genovese capo Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano and Pennsylvania mob boss Russell Bufalino to Hoffa’s killing in a successful ploy to escape a lengthy prison term for a 1974 murder.
Mr. Capeci writes, Informed about Petepiece’s take, Moldea, who stands by his account, said simply: “Andy has earned the right to be wrong.” Moldea says his account of “what happened, who did it, and where Hoffa ended up,” is the “most plausible” theory about the mysterious case. In his July 30, 2015 account, which follows Andy’s analysis of the sensational case, the prize-winning author disclosed the identity of his “best underworld source” regarding the Hoffa murder. Gang Land News
