Who Killed Jimmy Hoffa is up for debate

‘The Irishman’ tells us who killed Jimmy Hoffa. A lawyer with a secret trove of documents says the movie got it wrong.

To get to the big man, you had to get past the toughs.

Guys with calloused hands and hard-set jaws, massed there at the bar in the Rickshaw, a mob hangout with a pagoda on the roof, across from the racetrack in Cherry Hill, N.J.

“What are you doin’ here?” they asked, not in a welcoming manner, when the young lawyer walked in.

“I’m here to see Frank,” said the lawyer, a 33-year-old with hangdog eyes and a perfect part named Glenn Zeitz.

“It was like the Red Sea parted,” Zeitz, now semiretired, recalled one recent morning, looking back on that day 40 years ago.

The big man came into view at the other side of the bar, a glass of red wine in his hand, a 6-foot-4 inch, 250-pound hulk. Frank Sheeran — known as “Big Irish,” the Teamsters honcho, the legend.

Sheeran only wanted to know a few things before hiring his new lawyer. Was Zeitz mostly a skirt chaser or mostly a drinker? Zeitz answered by ordering a Crown Royal. The other thing he wanted to know is whether Zeitz would promise to pound two ideas into the heads of the feds and the public: Sheeran would never be a rat and, most important, he had nothing to do with the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, his boss, the Teamsters powerhouse.

Now, Sheeran’s longtime lawyer and friend, Glenn Zeitz, told the Washington Post that Sheeran was not the killer.
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Oscar nominations fuel new scrutiny of ‘The Irishman’ as lawyer speaks out

Sheeran was a Philadelphia truck driver, who befriended Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa. According to Sheeran, in July 1975 he fatally shot the infamous mobster.

“I’m clearly stating he did not shoot Jimmy Hoffa,” the 72-year-old semi-retired attorney told the Post. “Frank from the very beginning wanted to mon­etize his story.”
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