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...Harvard (LL.B, '51), he served as an aide to Governor Robert B. Meyner for 3% years. In 1959 he was appointed prosecutor of Essex County and came to public attention by successfully prosecuting five contractors involved in construction scandals in Newark, as well as Racketeer Anthony ("Tony Boy") Boiardo. He became head of the state's public utilities commission in 1968 and was appointed by Cahill to the Superior Court two years later...
...prominently in the transcripts of bugged Mafia conversations; the talkative and perhaps misleadingly boastful mobsters discussed him and other prominent politicians as so many common stocks to be bought, held and discarded (TIME, Jan. 19). As the trial of Addonizio and seven others, including reputed Mafioso Anthony (Tony Boy) Boiardo, began, the Government argued that there was more than braggadocio connecting the mayor and the mob. Addonizio, the Government said, had left a safe congressional seat to make "a million dollars" as mayor and then set about doing it by getting the mob to force city contract kickbacks into...
...Mitchell had promised "a massive indictment" of New Jersey public officials, Addonizio and nine present or former Newark city officeholders were charged by a federal grand jury with extortion and income tax violations. The ten officials plus five other men, including a reputed Mafia member named Anthony ("Tony Boy") Boiardo, were indicted for extorting $253,500 from Constrad, Inc., an engineering firm that did business with the city. The charge carries penalties of $10,000 and 20 years in prison. The 15 were also accused of failing to report their payoffs, ranging from $500 to $37,000, to the Internal...
Poolside Chat. For Addonizio, who has been mayor since 1961 after a 14-year career as a Democratic Congressman, the indictment came as something of an anticlimax. A state grand jury questioned him about local gambling last year. Federal authorities have had him under investigation since he and Boiardo were seen chatting at the pool of the Americana Hotel in San Juan, P.R., nearly two years ago. But their case against him really began to develop when Constrad's chief, Paul Rigo, went to the Justice Department a few weeks ago with his records. After he began to talk...
...order the mayor to answer. Shaw declined to issue the order, but did demand that Addonizio explain his refusal in open court. Addonizio justified his silence on the grounds that he felt his answers might help forge a chain of evidence that could incriminate him. He knew the younger Boiardo, he said, and believed that he was under investigation. "Well, I guess that disposes of that one [question]," Shaw commented dryly...