Head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the then richest union in the world.
He had become a personal enemy of
Robert F. Kennedy, who wanted to attack his power and traffics (such as laundering for the Maffia).
Hoffa financed
Richard Nixon's 1960 campaign against
John F. Kennedy.
Robert F. Kennedy asked one of his assistants, Daniel Moynihan, to lead a discreet investigation to know whether Hoffa was linked to his brother's assassination. Moynihan concluded that the union man was not directly involved in the JFK assassination.