you were good friends with jimmy hoffa. i worked for jimmy in different matters. eric: did you ever kill for jimmy hoffa? i took care of his problems. that s what i did. he said he came to see him in 1975 to ask him a favor. and you knew what that meant if he ran. he was going to get killed. the mafia wouldn t allow him to go with that other punk that was running it, fits i am modges. they owned him. so he started talking, he was talking to the grand jury and congressional committees and journalists. word on the street was that jimmy hoffa was making too much noise. here is hoffa fighting to get his union back. here is tony provenzano trying
battery out of the cup that night before the fbi showed up to get him. the provenzano crew decided to go red alert and get the body out of there. eric: but where would the drum holding his body go? i identified two locations. one a paid parking lot and abandoned. i thought the easiest place would be another moscato property or one of his restaurants. which is how we got to the gentleman s cabaret stiletto. but what was then the strip club, the bench. i drove to trenton, new jersey to visit the investigators who would know about moscato and the bench. in 192 the agency in 1992 there was a massive report on bars and restaurants. and on page 14 there was his
would never take place. james hoff a jra was last set this restaurant. he was either taken or is mission. he was swallowed from sight. it took time to digest. the newsroom was upside down. my father james r. hoffa has been missing. he left for an appointment at machus red fox restaurant july 30, 1975. eric: though hoffa never made it inside, he was going there he thought to make peace with his nemesis, tony provenzano. a guy who threatened to rip hoffa s guts out and threatened to kill hoffa s grandchildren.
the family, th the teamsters and the american people need the answer. it s the biggest mystery in americana and this is a case that has to be solved. some of the best confessions you get later on. people grow old. alliances change. whether they come forward openly or whisper in the ear of law enforcement officials it does happen. eric: would you support a dig? absolutely. if we get to the point where we are going to tell and my confidence is high that it s le why it matily the spot, yes. eric: is phil moscato right, was jimmy hoffa s body driven 1,600 miles from detroit to new jersey to be buried at tony pro s trophy? with phil willing to go to