Bob Garrity, the FBI Hoffa case agent during the heart of the investigation, had written the memo a few weeks after Hoffa’s disappearance. I was privileged to meet Bob Garrity in 2005, fourteen years after Frank’s Mona Lisa trial, when Bob bought my paperback at a book signing. He asked me to make it out to “Bob Garrity.” “How do I know that name?” I looked up. “I was the Hoffa case agent. I read the hardback twice.” In the Hoffex memo, which formed the basis for the other books written on the Hoffa murder, Garrity had put together an accurate list of suspects, including Sheeran and Bufalino.
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