![]() “Lenny S” was Little Lenny Schultz, a high-ranking Mob associate, labor consultant and Tony Jack’s liaison to Hoffa and buffer for all his union affairs. ![]() “Tony P” was New Jersey Mob capo and Teamsters power broker Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano, a one-time close friend of Hoffa’s turned bitter enemy. “Tony G” was Tony Giacalone, Hoffa’s longtime handler for the Mafia. Hoffa’s datebook indicated a lunch meeting with “Tony G, Tony P and Lenny S” at the Red Fox, a popular fine-dining establishment 20 miles from Hoffa’s summer cottage on Lake Orion and seven miles north of Detroit’s city limits. He was getting into a maroon-colored Mercury Marquis owned by the son of fearsome Detroit Mafia street boss Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone. The firebrand Teamsters boss, who clashed with his former allies in organized crime regarding a potential return to the goliath union’s presidency, was last seen in the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant on the afternoon of July 30, 1975. The 62-year-old Hoffa, the face of the American labor movement in the mid- to late 20th century, vanished on his way to a sit-down with a trio of Mob figures in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, 45 years ago this week. Tony “Tony Jack” Giacalone, Hoffa’s longtime handler for the Mafia, was scheduled to meet with the labor icon on the day of Hoffa’s disappearance. Today, in the wake of the 45th anniversary of Hoffa’s kidnapping and murder, our reporting syncs perfectly. But our respect for each other and passionate love of the endeavor have made us a determined tandem (determined to get to the bottom of the case that Dan proudly and rightly refers to as his “white whale”). Our views have differed on a small number of things in pockets of the case. When I was a young reporter entering the hallowed halls of “Hoffaology” in the 2000s, Dan took me under his wing. My source provided information that directly tied to Dan Moldea’s theory and reporting. The two scenarios fit together instantly. Just weeks later, I was approached by a source with deep connections in organized crime in southeast Michigan and was told that Hoffa was murdered at the residence of Leonard “Little Lenny” Schultz, a Jewish racketeer and old-time Purple Gang affiliate with whom Hoffa had been friendly for decades. In October 2019, Dan Moldea, the world’s preeminent expert on the case, traced Hoffa’s remains to the site of a former mobbed-up trash dump in Jersey City, New Jersey. The two locations might be the final pieces of the puzzle that finally solve one of the most speculated-upon murder mysteries in American history. ![]() In the fall of 2019, as a mentor of mine out East closed in on where Jimmy Hoffa’s body is very possibly buried, I was at ground zero for the storied Hoffa case in Detroit, running down a tip pointing to where he was killed. Lenny Schultz's house in the small Detroit suburb of Franklin Village allegedly was where labor leader Jimmy Hoffa was killed on July 30, 1975.
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