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Francis Joseph Sheeran (October 25, 1920 – December 14, 2003), also known as " The Irishman ", was an American labor union official and enforcer for Jimmy Hoffa and Russell Bufalino. He was accused of having links to the Bufalino crime family in his capacity as a high-ranking official in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), the ...
Mar 10, 2024 · Frank Sheeran was a hitman for the Philadelphia Mafia who claimed to have killed Jimmy Hoffa and other mobsters. Learn about his life, his war crimes, his friendship with Hoffa, and his deathbed confessions in this article.
Nov 1, 2019 · FBI agents, prosecutors, reporters, and criminals who knew Frank Sheeran have said Sheeran’s confession—on which Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is based—lacks credibility.
Nov 27, 2019 · In Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, Robert De Niro plays Frank Sheeran, the alleged mafia hitman who claims to have murdered Jimmy Hoffa. We sorted through the fact and fiction of...
Aug 5, 2019 · Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran was an Irish-American labor union official who helped facilitate organized crime activity into labor unions and claimed to have killed Teamster...
Feb 7, 2020 · Sheeran—a former truck driver, onetime local president in the Teamsters Union, and friend of Jimmy Hoffa's—was dying of cancer when he told Brandt that he had committed one of the...
Oct 31, 2019 · Frank Sheeran. Depending on who you ask, the real Frank Sheeran was something between a crooked two-bit Philly Teamsters leader and one of the most prolific mafia hitmen of all time.
