Bid to clear the last living Jimmy Hoffa suspect: 'Truly un-American'
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For nearly 50 years, Gabe Briguglio has been called "one of Hoffa's killers." U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., wants the DOJ to exonerate him and the FBI to apologize.
Eric Shawn, a New York-based anchor and senior correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC), joined the network when it launched in 1996. He is currently the co-anchor of FOX News Live. Shawn is also the host of Riddle: The Search for James R. Hoffa on FOX Nation, FNC's on-demand subscription-based streaming service, which is based upon his extensive reporting into the appearance of notorious Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa.
Van Drew has sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking the Justice Department to review Briguglio's plight and issue that "letter of clearance," an official declaration that Briguglio was not involved in Hoffa's murder.
Briguglio's name surfaced a few months after Hoffa disappeared in 1975, from a New Jersey prison inmate, Ralph Picardo. Picardo told the FBI what he thought had happened to Hoffa and authorities used his unsupported claim to impanel a grand jury in Detroit. But it turned out that the FBI, a Justice Department special prosecutor and a federal grand jury later exposed Picardo as "a pathological liar" who had a history of lying to FBI agents and fabricating allegations in cases to help himself.