Word: bagman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some police officials that his son was murdered because the report fingered him as a Government witness. Others are convinced that he was slain by fellow mobsters in a business dispute. Nat Masselli was the second Donovan witness murdered during the probe. In June, Fred Furino, a Mafia bagman who was alleged to have received payoffs from Schiavone, was found dead in the trunk of a car in Manhattan...
...Manhattan jail in preparation for his appearance before a grand jury investigating new charges against Donovan. The FBI is looking into the Masselli assassination as a possible obstruction of justice. It is the FBI's second such probe. Last June, the body of Fred Furino, a Mafia bagman who was alleged to have received payoffs from Schiavone Construction and who became a Silverman witness, was found stuffed into the trunk of a car parked on a Manhattan street...
...Silverman report suggests that Fred Furino, a Mafia bagman whose body was found in an abandoned car on June 11 in New York City, may have been murdered because of his role in the Donovan probe. Furino flunked a lie-detector test on April 27, when he claimed that he had never collected any payoffs from Donovan. He later made two appearances before the grand jury investigating Donovan. On June 2 Silverman subpoenaed John DiGilio, Furino's superior in the Genovese family, to appear before the grand jury as well. The next day Furino vanished. Silverman's report...
...assertion that he had been imprisoned and tortured primarily because he was a Jew and a Zionist. According to Kristol, the real cause was Timerman's association with David Graiver, a mysterious Argentine financier who allegedly looted two U.S. banks of some $40 million while serving as a bagman for the Montoneros, Argentina's leftist guerrillas. Kristol expressed astonishment that Timerman's book makes no mention of Graiver, who had been part owner of La Opinion, the newspaper published and edited by Timerman before his arrest. Still, Kristol conceded that there was "no evidence" that Timerman...
...exaggerations miss the point. For all his drill-field discipline, Bryant is not John Wayne with a whistle, a link to vague frontier tenets presumed lost. The most closely scrutinized coach in America, he could not get away with being a bagman for postadolescent jocks even if he tried. Nor is he a helmet-bashing maniac who views Saturday afternoons in the stadium as the moral equivalent of Dday. He is, at times, treated a bit too royally by those who vest football with more importance than it deserves. But he is also scorned too savagely by those...