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Hoffa, Jimmy
     
Hoffa, Jimmy
(1913?-1975) the president of the Teamsters, a powerful trade union in the US, who was put in prison in 1967 for financial crimes. He left prison in 1971, but disappeared in 1975 and many people believe that he was murdered, though his body was never found.
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