"I Heard You Paint Houses": Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa (27 page)

Frank Sheeran (left) with war buddy Alex Siegel one month before Siegel was killed in action during the Salerno invasion.
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Frank Sheeran celebrating the end of World War II with buddy Charlie “Diggsy” Meiers.
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Sheeran (upper left) with fellow Teamsters organizers at his first job in Detroit.
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Sheeran (right), sergeant-at-arms at the 1961 Teamsters Convention in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Jimmy Hoffa squaring off against archenemy Bobby Kennedy at a meeting of the Labor Racket Committee in 1958.
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Senate investigator John Cye Cheasty (left) slipping Hoffa confidential documents in a sting operation. Hoffa paid $2,000 for this sensitive information.
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Title page of U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani’s RICO suit against the mob, naming Sheeran as one of only two non-Italians on the Commission of La Cosa Nostra.

Jimmy Hoffa saying good-bye to the marshals that escorted him to the Lewisburg Prison in 1967.
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The first page of Nixon’s presidential pardon of Hoffa.

John Mitchell’s affadavit to aid Hoffa’s quest to remove the restrictions of Nixon’s presidential pardon.

Frank Sheeran: “I’ll be a Hoffa man ’til they pat my face with a shovel and steal my cufflinks.” Sheeran’s cufflinks were a gift from Russell Bufalino.
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Frank Sheeran Appreciation Night 1974. Mayor Frank Rizzo (shaking Hoffa’s hand), roofing union boss John McCullough (second from right), and civil rights leader Cecil B. Moore (far right) attending.
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