I agree that Sheeran probably was exaggerating his activities to help the author sell books. If I remember the first edition of "Paint Houses" correctly, Sheeran said he was in the house where Hoffa was killed, but wasn't the killer and he didn't say who was. He certainly didn't have anything to do with the Gallo murder. In "In Hoffa's Shadow" (excellent read BTW), author Jack Goldsmith, a former Justice Dept. lawyer who is Chuckie O'Brien's stepson, got over 200 hours of interviews with Chuckie, who never once mentioned Sheeran.