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