Jimmy Hoffa FBI files that have been hidden since 1975 must be released, lawmakers tell DOJ
https://www.foxnews.com/us/lawmakers-fbi-jimmy-hoffa-files
Lee Zeldin (R-NY) has submitted what is known as a "Congressional Mandatory Declassification Review" on the Hoffa case to the Department of Justice, seeking the public release of tens of thousands of pages of documents, interviews and reports that the government has kept under wraps since Hoffa vanished in 1975. He and others believe that if the full account of what authorities have uncovered in the decades long case is revealed, the answers about Hoffa's fate, and who killed him, will finally be known.
"We have a process in our country, once you get past 25 years or so, that items like this should be declassified and released publicly and here we are, it's been 45 years. You still have members of the Hoffa family, members of the Teamsters, and the public interest in this information. It is a message to let them know that Jimmy Hoffa has not been forgotten. His legacy lives on and we will not rest until we get these answers," says Zeldin.
The declassification request zeros in on several specific points raised in the Fox Nation series that is now streaming, "Riddle, The Search for James R. Hoffa."
The latest episode of "Riddle" reports on the claims that Hoffa's remains were transported from Detroit, where he was murdered by mobsters on July 30, 1975, and buried in a steel drum next to a mob-connected dump in Jersey City, New Jersey. The property, the PJP Landfill, was co-owned by Genovese crime family mobster Phillip "Brother" Moscato and businessman Paul Cappola. The F.B.I. searched the landfill, known as "Moscato's dump," a few months after Hoffa vanished, acting on a tip from mobster turned informant Ralph Picardo and other information gleaned from mafia wiretaps and information. Hoffa's body was not found, but the exact spot where he allegedly remains buried was not dug up by authorities, because it rests a few feet from the dump's property line and was technically not part of the search area.