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FBI looks at land near NJ landfill for Jimmy Hoffa’s remains

(AP) — The decades- a document with his father’s
long odyssey to find the detailed story.
remains of former Team- “I’ve pushed all my chips in
sters boss Jimmy Hoffa on this thing. I believe that
apparently has turned to we’ve got it,” Moldea told
land next to a former New the AP. “Certainly the FBI is
Jersey landfill that sits be- taking this seriously. ... This
low an elevated highway. is wonderful, on the verge of
total and complete vindica-
The FBI obtained a search tion for their 46-year investi-
warrant to “conduct a site gation. I’m hopeful they suc-
survey underneath the Pu- ceed.”
laski Skyway,” said Mara Sch-
neider, a spokeswoman for The search over the years
the Detroit field office. has included various digs in
rural Michigan and even the
“On October 25th & 26th, about the Hoffa mystery, said ure Anthony “Tony Pro” according to Moldea. removal of floorboards at a
FBI personnel from the he was contacted by the FBI Provenzano at a restaurant in Detroit house.
Newark and Detroit field of- in September 2020 after in- suburban Detroit. Paul Cappola, worried that
fices completed the survey terviewing the son of a key police might be watching that Hoffa was president of the
and that data is currently be- figure. The latest effort appears to be day, dug a hole on New Jer- 2.1 million-member Team-
ing analyzed,” Schneider said tied to interviews given by a sey state property, about 100 sters union from 1957-71,
in a written statement Friday. “I’ve been assured that the man named Frank Cappola, yards from the landfill, and even keeping the title while
body hasn’t been dug up yet,” who was a teenager in the dumped the unmarked barrel in prison for trying to bribe
She didn’t indicate whether Moldea told The Associated 1970s. He said he worked at there, Moldea said Friday. jurors during a previous trial.
anything was removed. Press, referring to the FBI the old PJP Landfill in Jer- He was released from pris-
visit in October. sey City with his father, Paul “Then he put 15 to 30 steel on in 1971 when President
“Because the affidavit in sup- Hoffa’s disappearance has Cappola. drums on top of it, which Richard Nixon shortened his
port of the search warrant been unsolved for more than were filled with toxic adhe- sentence.
was sealed by the court, we 45 years. He was last seen on Cappola said his dying father sives, and bulldozed the area It has been long speculated
are unable to provide any ad- July 30, 1975, when he was in 2008 explained how Hof- flat,” Moldea said. that Hoffa, who was 62, was
ditional information,” Sch- to meet with reputed De- fa’s body was delivered to the killed by enemies because
neider said. troit mob enforcer Anthony landfill in 1975, placed in a Frank Cappola spoke to Fox he was planning a Teamsters
Dan Moldea, a journalist “Tony Jack” Giacalone and steel drum and buried with Nation and Moldea before comeback. He was declared
who has written extensively alleged New Jersey mob fig- other barrels, bricks and dirt, he died in 2020 and signed legally dead in 1982.

Interior secretary seeks to rid US of derogatory place names

Sams, a citizen of the Confed- base maintained by the Board The board also voted in
erated Tribes of the Umatilla on Geographic Names shows 2008 to change the name of
Indian Reservation, would be there are more than 650 fed- a prominent Phoenix moun-
an asset as the administration eral sites with names that tain from Squaw Peak to
works to make national parks contain the term. Piestewa Peak to honor Army
more accessible to everyone. Spc. Lori Piestewa, the first
The task force will be made Native American woman to
The Native American Rights up of representatives from die in combat while serving
Fund applauded Haaland’s federal land management in the U.S. military.
move to address derogatory agencies and experts with the
place names, saying action Interior Department. Tribal In 2020, the Phoenix City
by the federal government is consultation and public feed- Council voted unanimously
long overdue. back will be part of the pro- to rename Squaw Peak Drive
cess. to Piestewa Peak Drive after
“Names that still use deroga- it was decried as a demeaning
tory terms are an embarrass- The process for chang- and degrading word.
ing legacy of this country’s ing U.S. place names can
(AP) — U.S. Interior Sec- said in a statement. “Today’s colonialist and racist past,” take years, and federal offi- In California, the Squaw
retary Deb Haaland on actions will accelerate an im- said John Echohawk, the cials said there are currently Valley Ski Resort changed
Friday formally declared portant process to reconcile group’s executive director. “It hundreds of proposed name its name to Palisades Tahoe
“squaw” a derogatory derogatory place names and is well past time for us, as a changes pending before the earlier this year. The resort
term and said she is taking mark a significant step in nation, to move forward, be- board. is in Olympic Valley, which
steps to remove it from honoring the ancestors who yond these derogatory terms, was known as Squaw Valley
federal government use have stewarded our lands and show Native people — Haaland also called for the until it hosted the 1960 Win-
and to replace other de- since time immemorial.” and all people — equal re- creation of an advisory com- ter Olympics. Tribes in the
rogatory place names. spect.” mittee to solicit, review and region had been asking the
The first Native American to recommend changes to other resort for a name change for
Haaland is ordering a federal lead a Cabinet agency, Haa- Environmentalists also derogatory geographic and decades.
panel tasked with naming land is from Laguna Pueblo praised the action, saying it federal place names. That
geographic places to imple- in New Mexico. marked a step toward recon- panel will be made up of trib- There is also legislation
ment procedures to remove ciliation. al representatives and civil pending in Congress to ad-
what she called racist terms The U.S. Senate on Thurs- rights, anthropology and his- dress derogatory names on
from federal use. day confirmed Oregon Under Haaland’s order, a tory experts. geographic features on public
resident and tribal citizen federal task force will find lands. States from Oregon to
“Our nation’s lands and wa- Charles F. “Chuck” Sams III replacement names for geo- In the 1960s and 1970s, the Maine have passed laws pro-
ters should be places to cel- as head of the National Park graphic features on fed- Board on Geographic Names hibiting the use of the word
ebrate the outdoors and our Service, making him the first eral lands bearing the term took action to eliminate the “squaw” in place names.
shared cultural heritage — Native American to hold the “squaw,” which has been use of derogatory terms for
not to perpetuate the lega- position. used as a slur, particularly for Black and Japanese people.
cies of oppression,” Haaland Haaland said previously that Indigenous women. A data-