assassinated. You state that with Lyndon Johnson becoming President, they believed that Attorney General Robert Kennedy would be fired. Do you believe the Mafia was behind the assassination of John F Kennedy, and even Robert Kennedy, who may have become the President had Sirhan Sirhan not assassinated him in 1968? What were Ragano's thoughts on whether Carlos Marcello, Sam Giancana, and/or Santo Trafficante (being the architects of the Plot To Kill the President (as RICO author G. Robert Blakey alleges)? Salerno, who you cite as a mob expert, does not agree. Where lies the truth in your opinion? Selwyn Raab: Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. Despite Trafficante’s death bed statements to Ragano, Frank eventually concluded that Trafficante probably was boasting and trying to take credit for the murder in a pathological attempt to demonstrate the power of the Mafia. Frank agreed with me that mob leaders wanted JFK eliminated and profited immensely from his death because it ended Bobby Kennedy’s crackdown. Half a century after the assassination, conspiracy theories sell books but there is not one solid fact to support the theory that the Mafia was involved. Michael Woodiwiss: So who was responsible for the disappearance and obvious murder of Jimmy Hoffa? You suggest in your book with Ragano that Salvatore Provenzano killed Hoffa. How does this comport with Frank Sheeran’s, I Heard You Paint Houses: The Biggest Hit in Mob History (2010) representations that the Bufalino Family was involved with the murder of Hoffa? Selwyn Raab: Sheeran’s supposed involvement has never been substantiated despite the scientific attempt to find blood stains and other evidence in the house where Sheeran said he killed Hoffa. No doubt Sheeran was a hit man. I buy Ragano’s recollections of what Trafficante told him about the reasons the Mafia wanted Hoffa dead. Ragano believed that Provenzano hated Hoffa, considered him loose “a cannon” who was about to co-author a book exposing Mafia secrets, and campaigned for the Commission to sanction the killing. Even if therefore Sheeran was involved he had no idea where or how the corpse was
assassinated. You state that with Lyndon Johnson becoming President, they believed that Attorney General Robert Kennedy would be fired. Do you believe the Mafia was behind the assassination of John F Kennedy, and even Robert Kennedy, who may have become the President had Sirhan Sirhan not assassinated him in 1968? What were Ragano's thoughts on whether Carlos Marcello, Sam Giancana, and/or Santo Trafficante (being the architects of the Plot To Kill the President (as RICO author G. Robert Blakey alleges)? Salerno, who you cite as a mob expert, does not agree. Where lies the truth in your opinion? Selwyn Raab: Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. Despite Trafficante’s death bed statements to Ragano, Frank eventually concluded that Trafficante probably was boasting and trying to take credit for the murder in a pathological attempt to demonstrate the power of the Mafia. Frank agreed with me that mob leaders wanted JFK eliminated and profited immensely from his death because it ended Bobby Kennedy’s crackdown. Half a century after the assassination, conspiracy theories sell books but there is not one solid fact to support the theory that the Mafia was involved. Michael Woodiwiss: So who was responsible for the disappearance and obvious murder of Jimmy Hoffa? You suggest in your book with Ragano that Salvatore Provenzano killed Hoffa. How does this comport with Frank Sheeran’s, I Heard You Paint Houses: The Biggest Hit in Mob History (2010) representations that the Bufalino Family was involved with the murder of Hoffa? Selwyn Raab: Sheeran’s supposed involvement has never been substantiated despite the scientific attempt to find blood stains and other evidence in the house where Sheeran said he killed Hoffa. No doubt Sheeran was a hit man. I buy Ragano’s recollections of what Trafficante told him about the reasons the Mafia wanted Hoffa dead. Ragano believed that Provenzano hated Hoffa, considered him “a loose cannon” who was about to co-author a book exposing Mafia secrets, and therefore campaigned for the Commission to sanction the killing. Even if Sheeran was involved he had no idea where or how the corpse was
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