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When the inseparable Rudy and Laura start to talk, the most common opener is, "After we won the nationals..." The victory truly changed their lives. Now there is an agent, a tour, deals in the works. Before the nationals, the big money in skating bypassed this modest team. Even before the tragedies of the early '90s, life had not been easy. Jess Galindo had been a busy trucker, carting rocket fuel from Gilroy, California, to Carson City, Nevada. When both his younger children pleaded for skating lessons, he provided them--and settled for a mobile home. Rudy and his mother...
DETROIT: In a blow to organized crime today, Federal agents arrested the boss and leaders of the Detroit Mafia. Seventeen people were indicted on 25 different charges alleging 30 years of murder plots, extortion and racketeering. The indictments came after a long government effort to "drive a stake through the heart" of the mob, following similar arrests in Boston, New Orleans, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Newark, N.J. and New York City. The alleged Mafia boss, Jack Tocco, was arrested this morning in Boca Raton, Fla. along with his brother Anthony and reputed second in command, Anthony Zerilli. "Here in Detroit...
Behind the wheel was Joe Cubas, a 35-year-old Miami contractor who has shadowed the Cuban team for several years. Now the agent for both players, Cubas executed a similar pick-off play with Hernandez two months later in Mexico. The pitchers soon found themselves being wined and dined by a dozen clubs. They even partied with Gloria Estefan, courtesy of the Florida Marlins. They were also offered money beyond their dreams...
...talk about his decision to play David to Big Tobacco's Goliath." Shannon, a Washington bureau correspondent who has covered "nearly every Washington scandal since Watergate," won Wigand over with the persistence and honesty that have marked her 27 years as a reporter. "You're very direct," a DEA agent once told her. "That's a good technique." Good journalism...
When Wade Miller called Atlanta to order volleyball tickets, everything went smoothly until he gave the agent his Santa Fe, New Mexico, address. She said she couldn't sell tickets to anyone living outside the U.S.; he would have to call his own national Olympic committee. Miller says he spent the next half an hour trying to convince the agent and a supervisor that New Mexico was part of the U.S. An Olympics official later apologized to "everybody out in New Mexico...