{"id":2680,"date":"2019-09-30T10:42:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T14:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2019-09-30T10:44:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T14:44:09","slug":"martin-scorseses-new-jimmy-hoffa-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/martin-scorseses-new-jimmy-hoffa-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Scorsese&#8217;s New Jimmy Hoffa Movie @jacklgoldsmith @nybooks @Harvard_Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith discusses Martin Scorsese&#8217;s new film&nbsp;<em>The Irishman<\/em> and the unsolved disappearance of union leader James (Jimmy) Hoffa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2019\/09\/26\/jimmy-hoffa-and-the-irishman-a-true-crime-story\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NYR%20Daily%20Jack%20Goldsmith&amp;utm_content=NYR%20Daily%20Jack%20Goldsmith+CID_050c7b0ca3bbb0fe124ab82e428e2d78&amp;utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_term=Jimmy%20Hoffa%20and%20The%20Irishman%20A%20True%20Crime%20Story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here&nbsp;<\/a> for the New York Review of Books. Professor Goldsmith writes in part,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Irishman&nbsp;<\/em>purports to do what the FBI and others seem unable to do: tell us who killed Hoffa, and how. The film is based on a 2004 book by Charles Brandt called&nbsp;<em>I Heard You Paint Houses&nbsp;<\/em>(the title alludes to supposed mob slang for carrying out a hit). The book\u2019s central claim is that Frank \u201cThe Irishman\u201d Sheeran murdered Hoffa. Sheeran was a Teamsters official in Delaware, an associate of Hoffa\u2019s as well as senior mob figures, and a well-known boozer and thug. Brandt\u2019s book recounts Sheeran\u2019s confession to the murder, and describes the house where he claims the murder happened. I have a personal stake in the veracity of Sheeran\u2019s confession. Sheeran repeats the public conventional wisdom since 1975 that a man named Charles \u201cChuckie\u201d O\u2019Brien drove the car that picked up Hoffa from the suburban parking lot and delivered him to his killers. O\u2019Brien&nbsp;was Hoffa\u2019s closest aide for decades. He is also my stepfather. I was twelve years old when Hoffa disappeared, and I lived through the bedlam of the Hoffa investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yes, Professor Goldsmith&#8217;s essay gets more intriguing from there. Read on, Macduffs.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith discusses Martin Scorsese&#8217;s new film&nbsp;The Irishman and the unsolved disappearance of union leader James (Jimmy) Hoffa here&nbsp; for the New York Review of Books. Professor Goldsmith writes in part,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[236,132],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-film","tag-james-hoffa","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-He","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}