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  1. Jan 3, 2020 · And in the 1992 film “Hoffa,” Danny DeVito played Mr. Hoffa’s sidekick, Bobby Ciaro, a composite character based largely on Chuckie.

    • Early Life
    • Union Organizer
    • Jail Time and Downfall
    • Murder

    Robert Ciaro was born in Detroit, Michigan to an Italian-American family, and he became a truck driver. Ciaro was poorly treated by the company, and he met Teamsters union organizer Jimmy Hoffaone night in 1935. Ciaro had been sleeping in his cab on a roadside when Hoffa approached him and declared that he was entering the cab; Ciaro was hostile, a...

    Bobby Ciaro served as Hoffa's right-hand man, and he worked as an organizer for the Teamsters union. Ciaro helped Hoffa with making a connection to the Detroit Partnership, translating the boss' Italian sentences into English and serving as an intermediary. In 1958, after Hoffa became the President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Cia...

    In 1967, Ciaro was sent to prison alongside Hoffa for bribery, extortion, and other crimes after Peter Connelly ratted them out, but Hoffa's friends in the justice system ensured that Ciaro was supplied with a winter blanket, a bookshelf, cigars, a Playboy magazine, several posters, and an increasingly large amount of gifts throughout his prison se...

    On 30 July 1975, Ciaro and Hoffa drove to the remote roadhouse diner in Bloomfield Township, and they waited for the mafiosi for four hours. Hoffa refused to leave, and Ciaro repeatedly brought him coffee and made phone calls to the mafiosi, failing to locate their messenger. Ciaro also had conversations with a young teamster named Paddy Dougal, an...

  2. Updated: 4 December 2019. Tweet. Jack Nicholson as Jimmy Hoffa in Hoffa (1992) “American movies present the ideals of the middle classes. But it is even more correct to say that American movies represent the ideals which the middle classes would like to have.” Hoffa is available to stream or download from digital stores.

  3. Dec 25, 1992 · It comes as a shock, about halfway through “Hoffa,” to discover that the Teamsters leader has a wife and daughter. They turn up during a crowd scene. But this film about Jimmy Hoffa has no time to show him meeting his wife, courting her, marrying her, setting up housekeeping, or fathering a child.

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    On July 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa and his longtime friend Bobby Ciaro are impatiently waiting in the parking lot of a roadhouse diner.

  5. Nov 28, 2016 · Jimmy Hoffa and Bobby Ciaro were impatiently waiting for a meeting in the parking lot of a roadhouse diner on July 30, 1975. The first flashback to 1935 then occurred. Hoffa was a Teamsters union organizer who was working to organize the various trucking firms and laundries around Detroit, Michigan.

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  7. Dec 25, 1992 · A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt. This is quite an interesting postulation about the internecine politics of the USA in the 1960s.

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