The Nation - News from Sept. 20, 1989

A self-described free-lance hit man says in Playboy magazine that former Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa was shot and dismembered and buried near the end zone in Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. In an interview in the November issue of Playboy, Donald (Tony the Greek) Frankos, who is now in the federal government’s witness protection program, claims he told the FBI in 1986 that Hoffa was killed by alleged Irish mob boss Jimmy Coonan in a house near the Detroit suburb of Mt. Clemens. Hoffa’s body was dismembered with a chain saw and stored in a freezer for five months before it was transported to New Jersey, the magazine reported. FBI officials declined comment on Frankos’ account of Hoffa’s disappearance July 30, 1975.