Justice Department Pays for Horse Barn Demolished in Hoffa Search

Even though Jimmy Hoffa’s remains weren’t found, the Justice Department paid $160,000 to the owners of a Michigan horse farm to replace a barn the FBI removed last summer, records show.

Records released to The Detroit News under

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Even though Jimmy Hoffa’s remains weren’t found, the Justice Department paid $160,000 to the owners of a Michigan horse farm to replace a barn the FBI removed last summer, records show.


Records released to The Detroit News under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act show the agency paid another $65,000 to excavators, anthropologists, and other contractors involved in the project.


The FBI was criticized for its two-week dig last May at the Hidden Dreams Farm in Milford Township, northwest of Detroit, by those who said the effort was costly and yielded nothing more than a water line, a beer can and other trash.


The $225,000 price tag for the search does not include salary or travel costs for what the FBI said at the time was 40 to 50 agents involved in the dig

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