New York Times story today:

The former federal prosecutor who heads the Teamsters' internal anticorruption program resigned yesterday, along with 20 other investigators and lawyers involved in that effort, saying the union's president was not fully committed to fighting corruption.

The former prosecutor, Edwin H. Stier, sent a sharply worded letter that accused James P. Hoffa, the Teamsters president, of blocking a broad investigation into possible union corruption in Chicago and of dragging his feet in a case of alleged embezzlement by a Teamsters leader in Houston...

Is this the same Jimmy Hoffa whom many Republicans rooted for back in the '90s when Teamster president Ron Carey suffered a corruption scandal and then was removed from the presidency (Carey was seen as having corrupt ties to the Democratic Party)? Is this the same Hoffa who, after he won the next Teamster election, was invited to the 2000 Republican convention and honored there at a party, where Republican National Committee chair Jim Nicholson said this?

Mr. Hoffa has restored honor and decency to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters – he’s brought common sense and respect back to this great organization.

Is this the same Hoffa who was Bush's guest at the 2002 State of the Union address?