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...champions who do stay with students appreciate the personal treatment they receive. “It’s so much better than a hotel,” raves Tanith Belbin, who, with her pairs partner Benjamin Agosto, won a silver medal at the U.S. Nationals this year...
...puts a face on what we’re here for. You actually get to see the individual children that we’re helping,” said Tanith Belbin, who skated with partner Benjamin Agosto. The pair earned a gold medal in the 2002 World Junior Championship...
Starting in 1974 with court-sanctioned bugs and wiretaps under new federal laws, the FBI began building cases that could stand up. Last July, the legal snooping, aided greatly by the testimony of Joseph Agosto, who turned Government informer and described his supervision of the skimming, produced federal convictions of five mobsters for siphoning off proceeds of Las Vegas' Tropicana casino. "You gotta be a thief to steal your own goddam money," Agosto had complained in one taped conversation. He died of a heart attack shortly after the Tropicana trial...
With Informer Agosto dead, speculation on who will testify for the Government in the new case centers on two men not indicted. They are Glick, who lives as a retired multimillionaire on his huge and heavily guarded estate near La Jolla, Calif., and Frank ("Lefty") Rosenthal, who had been paid $250,000 annually by Glick to oversee his casinos, even though Rosenthal's only known previous legitimate business experience was running a Chicago hot-dog stand. A map of Click's estate had been sought by Triggerman DeLuna, according to testimony in the Tropicana case. A bomb exploded...
...outright assassination," protested Puerto Rican Novelist Pedro Juan Soto, father of one of the victims. "It was a setup that was meant to be a lesson to others," declared Senator Miguel Hernández Agosto, head of the island's once ruling Popular Democratic Party. "The Governor planned it all. It was part of a systematic plan to wipe us out," charged Socialist Leader Juan Mari Bras...