Although I couldn’t use it because Carrie Bufalino was still alive, Frank told me that while Russell had planned the Hoffa hit to be over in an hour from Hoffa’s pickup to his cremation, it had been Fat Tony Salerno who presided over the murder. And although Salerno gave lip service to being neutral between Hoffa and Tony Provenzano, it was in Salerno’s best interest to eliminate Hoffa. Salerno’s Genovese family dominated the hit, providing four men for the plot: Provenzano, Sal Briguglio, and the two Andretta brothers.
