Frank Sheeran, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frank Sheeran

American mobster

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1920

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 14-Dec-2003

Profession: trade unionist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Francis Joseph Sheeran (October 25, 1920 – December 14, 2003), known as Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran, was an American labor union official who 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), Sheeran was a leading figure in the corruption of unions by organized crime.
In a lawsuit stemming from the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), the US government named Sheeran as one of only two non-Italians who conspired with the Commission of La Cosa Nostra, alongside such figures as Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano and Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno.
Shortly before his death, Sheeran claimed to have killed Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa in 1975.
Author Charles Brandt detailed what Sheeran told him about Hoffa in the narrative nonfiction work I Heard You Paint Houses (2004).
The truthfulness of the book, including Sheeran's supposed confessions to killing Jimmy Hoffa and Joe Gallo have been disputed by "The Lies of the Irishman," an article in Slate by Bill Tonelli, and "Jimmy Hoffa and 'The Irishman': A True Crime Story?" by Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith, which appeared in The New York Review of Books.
The book is the basis for the 2019 film The Irishman directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran and Al Pacino as Hoffa.