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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 ...
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.
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 president...
May 12, 2021 · Frank Sheeran claimed to be a hitman for the Mafia and a friend of Jimmy Hoffa, the Teamsters Union leader. But his story is disputed by some and unproven by evidence.
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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.
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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...
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Feb 7, 2020 · The Irishman tells the story of Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a hitman with an uncanny knack for finding himself at the center of history. Sheeran, from his retirement home, brings the viewer...
