Gabriel Briguglio, the last living suspect in the murder of James Riddle Hoffa, opens up about how Ralph Picardo misled the FBI, federal prosecutors and media in the investigation.
in its early stages with self-serving, fabricated claims that only served to damage the investigation. The result, he says, has been a false narrative cemented in the American public’s mind of what happened and who was responsible.
"I think it hurt my kids more than it hurt me because I know I was not involved," he says."They knew that what they were saying about me wasn't true." The 1976 FBI Hoffex report, the bureau-wide compilation of the investigation, said Gabe was"a trusted associate of 'Tony Pro' reported by Newark source to be involved in the actual disappearance of JRH" ... James Riddle Hoffa.
"When they first came to see me with the warrant to go to Detroit, because they said I was involved in disappearance … that's when, forget about it. You know, I got even more aggravated because they don't even ask you, ‘Where were you?’ or ‘What were you doing that day?’ I know what I was doing. I can't forget. I won $600 bucks that day," he said, referring to his card playing winnings.
Dooley told Harvard Law professor and author Jack Goldsmith of the Lawfareblog that Picardo would"take the little he knew firsthand and extend it as far as he could, using what he heard, up to and including gossip."Picardo"hated prison," and his claims were"a gambit to get out of jail and get him and his family into the Witness Protection Program. ," Goldsmith wrote.
The New York Times reported that Picardo was"fond of telling federal agents stories that had no basis in fact."He aimed at the White House. Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman was appointed to investigate Picardo's claims, and after the grand jury rejected Picardo's accusations against Donovan, the prosecutor was forced to reveal what certainly must have been an embarrassing revelation: Picardo had lied.
Sal was gunned down gangland style in 1978, three years after Hoffa disappeared, as he left a Mafia social club in Manhattan's Little Italy. It was believed"Tony Pro" feared Sal was going to testify against him in a murder of a New Jersey Teamsters official more than a decade earlier. Sal's killing is still unsolved.
Gabe and his family say his is a story of faulty assumptions, false accusations, inaccurate reporting and a criminal justice system that offers no remedy to correct misguided judgments that tar a person for life.Dan Moldea, a noted Hoffa case expert and author of a 1978 book,"The Hoffa Wars," has said,"As far as the disposal of the body, Picardo is the state of the art.
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