Frank Sheeran

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Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran(born ?? 1920 - December 14, 2003) is one of several people believed to have been behind the killing of Jimmy Hoffa. Hoffa was to meet with Mafia leaders Anthony Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano at the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 14:30 on July 30, 1975. Hoffa was never heard from again.

In 1999, Sheeran told author Charles Brandt that he had fired two shots into the back of Hoffa's head as part of a mob hit to prevent Hoffa from becoming re-involved in the Teamsters. He claimed that he was later told that Hoffa had been cremated.

Two years later, Sheeran told Fox News the same story, and gave directions to the house where he claimed Hoffa had been killed.

Additionally, Sheeran claimed to have been the triggerman behind another famous mob-related murder, that of Crazy Joe Gallo.

Sheeran died December 14 2003, a resident in a nursing home outside Philadelphia.

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• Charles Brandt, I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran and the inside story of the Mafia, the Teamsters, and the last ride of Jimmy Hoffa, Steerforth Press, Hanover (NH, USA) 2004 (ISBN 1-58642-077-1)