Frank Calabrese whacked Jimmy Hoffa.

Meet Me In Missouri: Chicago Outfit’s Frankie Breeze Was Sent To St. Louis Days After Jimmy Hoffa Was Slain To Deliver Message From Bosses

July 29, 2023 - The FBI in Chicago believes former mob hit man Frank (Frankie Breeze) Calabrese attended a meeting in Missouri related to Teamster union chief Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance the week Hoffa went missing in Michigan and was presumably killed in the summer of 1975. Frankie Breeze belonged to the Chicago Outfit’s Southside-Chinatown crew and headed one of the biggest loan sharking rings in the United States until he was jailed in 1997.

Chuck Goudie at ABC News in Chicago broke the news of the meeting on Saturday, citing an FBI intelligence memo he uncovered. The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of Hoffa’s body continues to fascinate the masses and perplex investigators almost a half-century later. No arrests have ever been made in the case, which remains an open FBI probe in 2023 and has commenced countless digs and searches to great fanfare and interest over the years. Feds dug for Hoffa’s remains in New Jersey last year and came up empty again.

Frankie Breeze went on to be found guilty of committing more than a dozen mob slayings at the historic 2007 Operation Family Secrets Trial and died of natural causes behind bars five years later at age 75. Calabrese had ties to the Detroit mob and labor-union scene through reputed Motown wiseguy Anthony (Chicago Tony) LaPiana, who grew up in Illinois and married into the Tocco-Zerilli crime family. U.S. Senate reports from the 1980s described LaPiana as the “point man” for the LCN mafia groups Detroit and Chicago in multiple labor unions throughout the country, including and most prominently the Teamsters. Hoffa and Calabrese both attended LaPiana’s 1974 Wedding.

Chicago Mob Hitman Frankie Breeze involved in Hoffas death.

I calling more nonsense. lol

It actually is one of the most logical theories on who did it. Calabrese was fully capable and willing if called upon.

If in fact Frank did it , its not far fetched at all. His signature move was the Calabrese neck tie. He would sit behind someone in the car, then strangle them and slit their throat.

More nonsense! Next, they'll be saying that Calabrese was involved in the Hindenburg disaster and The Great Chicago fire too. Sensational headlines that have no real substance or base criteria....pleeez!

If an FBI agent said that, it was to appease newsmen or to gain exposure for himself. If a new agency or website made that statement, then their motive was even more apparent.

Im not speculating he was involved, the FBI in fact has it in their reports. Didnt you read it? ABC news Chicago even reported it yesterday.

I did NOT read it. But thats immaterial. Because whether or not some FBI agent put an allegation, or hearsay (which is really all it would be) into a 302 report, and later leaked it to some news agency, or a website wants to later report it, does NOT mean there's any validity to it. Understand?

In fact, you can throw this into the garbage pail with the hundreds of other 'unsubstantiated' hogwash and alleged inside 'information' thats come out over the past fifty years regarding Hoffa's disappearance.

He's in the 'end zone' at Giants stadium, he's buried in NJ, he was ground up in a garbage truck, he was dissolved in acid, he was incinerated at a Detroit funeral home, he was buried in 4000 various spots around the country, Frank Sheeran killed him, etc., etc., etc. LOL

Fledgling FBI agents, inside sources, federal informants, local informants, newsmen, etc., etc., etc.

Its all nonsense!

The article didn't say that Frank Calabrese did it, only that there was a meeting between three different Families in Missouri, and that among the topics of discussion was the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. I personally find Mafia figures from Detroit, Chicago, and New York City meeting in a state like Missouri fascinating all by itself, regardless of what was discussed.

Yes, thats true. But the article 'alludes' to it.

They may have met. Or not. And if they did, I'm sure that Hoffa was on their tongues. The same as he was on the tongues of hundreds or millions or other Americans, and people all around the world.

But that, and $2.75 (of course,) will get you a ride on the NYC subway system. Lol

Here's Goudie's original report for anyone interested

https://abc7chicago.com/what-happened-to-jimmy-hoffa-found-body-chicago-outfit/13565582/

Frank Sr was made in 1983, while the Hoffa hit occurred 8 years earler.

So it seems that by the mid 1970s Frank Sr was still rising withing the Chicago mob under his territoral boss at the time, Turk Torello. So it is possible that Frank allegedly acted as some type of messenger for the Outfit (many Chi guys both Ital and non-Ital went back and forth around the country at the time) and he became a "player" sometime around 1976/77 when Torellos underling and Frank's close associate Angelo LaPietra became the new boss in Chinatown...I think Detriot received the ok from Chicago and New York, and later they simply had to receive a report on how the job was done and so they sent some of the lower level "bagmen" or messengers, obviously because the bosses where still on the governments radar at the time or the heat was on...just my two cents

My Goodness. He was bashed in the head, inside an apartment but first put up a fight; once down, he was garroted. The body was immediately incinerated. All of this done by Detroit guys. Not one person left the state of N.J.

What kind of an idiot would kill a high profile guy like Hoffa in the state of Michigan and then drive through a bunch of potential speed traps, traffic stops, and road blocks with a dead body in their trunk all the way to New Jersey ????? Its absurd ! Its possible Jersey guys actually killed him after familiar faced Detroit guys lured him.
Detroitpartnership has it right.

Not buying it

No chance lol

Who said that they killed him in Michigan and drove the body to New Jersey? The article simply said guys from 3 different Families met in Missouri and discussed Jimmy Hoffa.

I was going to say the same thing. On top of that Frank wasnt even made at the time so he can seat with the big fellas and having a convo regarding one very "complicated" situation. Messenger, maybe...involved, hard to believe it...

He wasn't made but it would have definitely proven his loyalty to the mafia if he in fact was willing to do it. Its not really that far fetched considering he also would have been able to fly under the radar when it came to suspects in the case. Plus Hoffa wouldn't have even looked at him as a threat.

It was John Alite, we all know that

In January, '83 Allen Dorfman was shot dead.

Dorfman was killed by someone in the Grand Ave Crew, IMO.

Patently unbelievable in fact. LOL

Anthony (Chicago Tony) LaPiana was an interesting guy though was he always with Detroit or was he made in Chicago.

I only brought that up because that has been the speculation for decades.

https://abc7chicago.com/what-happened-to-jimmy-hoffa-found-body-chicago-outfit/13565582/

What happened to Jimmy Hoffa? After 48 years, will the riddle ever be solved?

This story reminds me of the myth that Accardo allegedly jumped on Capone and saved him from the driveby shooting which was executed by the Northsiders, and also regarding the myth of Accardo allegedly being one of the shooters in the St Valentines Day massacre.

Except that no one is officially saying that Frank Calabrese killed Jimmy Hoffa. The title of this post doesn't count. I don't know how one one article snowballed into this nonsense.

What if he did play a role? Its possible.

Also, the Accardo stories were completely made up, fabricated out of thin air, by nobody important. If the FBI says that Frank Calabrese is tied in some way to the Hoffa killing, it might be worth looking into.

Im not 100% sure but i think it was FBI agent Roemer who stated that there was some convo in which one of the two myths was allegedly discussed. I personally never found that alleged convo and on top of that, all of Roemer statements should be taken with more than few grains of salt, especially the ones from his book and also the ones made on many documentaries. Another of Roemer's so-called "fantasy" statements was the alleged "Family Pact", in which he allegedly had a personal convo with Humphreys and a deal was made that their personal families were out of the question. Humphreys died in 1965 and later Battaglia was imprisoned in 1967. The family of the main investigator in Battaglias case, constantly received threats and story goes that they were in real danger. It is possible that the imprisoned Battaglia received some pressure from both Ricca and Accardo and so records show that Battaglia allegedly nixed the hit and the investigator allegedly received information that his family was now safe. So if Batttaglia was ready to kill the family of the main investigator in his case, than what "Family Pact"?! lol

Roemer was a con artist. All his books are complete BS.

Well he also wrote one fictional book on the Outfit, which explains some of his statements, although his FBI reports from the 50's, 60's and 70's, which were made together with other agents, are simply "gold".

Are you talking about the one about Chicago and New Yorks fight over Vegas? Legitimately one of the worst, and most obviously made up books ever.

I was actually a little taken back years ago when I picked up Roemer's book for a read. Knowing that he was an FBI agent, I thought the book would be very interesting....But I didn't get through a chapter or two before I started really questioning what was in the book.

Pretty soon I realized that it was all phony information, and Roemer was basically just making most of the stuff up. IMO it was a real bullshit book and a waste of time.

In fact, it was so bad that I returned the book and never bothered reading it.

The fact that a bonafide FBI agent would stoop so low and compromise his reputation by writing garbage was really surprising.

If an FBI agent would lie throughout an entire book, just imagine the lies they come up with to get guys convicted.

1000%...it happens all the time. (not all of them, to be sure), but in many of their minds, they figure, "the ends justify the means."

It seems some of the old guys thought that Roemer represented a real problem to them during the old days....



Also, Roemer once made some type of interview with one of the Outfit's most "hardcore" leaders Murray Humphreys...

It’s not overly fascinating considering the Detroit and St. Louis families were connected by marriage and geographically back in Sicily. Also, Hoffa was connected to a St Louis lawyer with points in some casinos - Morris Shenker.

There’s some great wiretap audio of Joey Lombardo extorting him.

I guess it's fascinating to me because while St. Louis did have a Mafia family, when I think of states where mobsters from Chicago, Detroit, and NYC could get together for a meeting, Missouri doesn't come to mind in the least bit. But that's just me. Appreciate you pointing out that Detroit and St. Louis were intertwined in such a way.

Yes for example "Frank Three Fingers" Coppola was a major drug trafficker with strong ties to the Detroit Partnership with Angelo Meli and the St. Louis crime family particularly Anthony "Tony" Giordano.
He was also a close associate of Jimmy Hoffa. His activities soon led him to be on the FBI list of most wanted criminals.

My personal opinion is that one of the biggest mistakes that U.S. government did at the time, was the deportation of mobsters in their home countries, something which made quite large contribution to the narcotics trade. Some of these fellas were few of the biggest criminal minds such as Charles Luciano, Frank Coppola, Serafino Mancuso or Chicago’s Dominic Roberto who in turn was probably the first deported Capone member since the early 1930s and his crew was also deeply involved in the trade during the following decades.

100% Giuseppe Doto another one who continued and build his business in Italy.
Also Settimo "Big Sam" Accardi !

Sammy the Bull was sitting in a car nearby watching John Alite pull up to pick Hoffa up.