Author Biography
As a former reporter of organized crime for The Philadelphia Inquirer, John Hilferty wrote about the New Jersey connection to Hoffa's disappearance, particularly an unsecured $85,000 loan of Teamsters health & welfare funds to a waste disposal company in Michigan where Hoffa's body was to have been incinerated. Hilferty, in 1980, shared a Pulitzer Prize for General Local Reporting for The Inquirer's coverage of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. He shared an AP Managing Editors' Award for an investigation into the murder of Philadelphia Mafia boss Angelo Bruno the same year. He is also the author of Moonlight in Vermont, a Novel, judged by the National IndieExcellence Awards to be the best independently-published Romance novel of 2007. With his wife, Ellie, he co-authored The Mad River Valley of Vermont, a photographic history published by Arcadia.
