Financing the murder of Jimmy Hoffa

How the case against a corrupt federal judge and his connections to the Mafia led me to Hoffa's alleged burial site

Introduction

During the spring of 2007, I received a grant from The Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund—administered by investigative journalist and author Joe Conason—to probe the background of Alcee Hastings, a former federal judge, with fellow journalist David Corn, then the Washington editor of The Nation.

A Mafia figure who was safely ensconced in …