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...writing his way to rehabilitation - or at least to use writing as a means of passing prison time constructively. As a participant in a weekly workshop at the federal prison on Terminal Island in Los Angeles Harbor, Liddy is not even unique in his fame. Mobster Scion Bill Bonanno, central character in Gay Talese's Honor Thy Father, was also a workshop student until his parole last week, after serving three years for a stolen credit card scheme. Measured by the professional accomplishments of its members, the class is the most successful program of its kind in U.S. penology...
...this problem have been rooted out." That is going to take some big-time rooting, since there is obviously more to all of this than a couple of dishonest clerks dipping their hands in the till. TIME has learned that two Mafia families-those of Carlo Gambino and Joe Bonanno -were involved. The Gambinos set up the looting, authorities say, and have already pushed 169 lbs. of the stolen drugs in Harlem. The going price: around $100,000 per pound...
...Union Corse also supplied and financed the new gangs of South Americans, Puerto Ricans and blacks, who moved into the vacant territories. All members of the milieu were instructed to avoid disturbing those Mafiosi who still continued to deal in narcotics-chiefly the capos and soldiers of the Bonanno and Gambino families...
...York firing line, and from their own experience as thug watchers. Willwerth's first brush with the Mob dates back to 1969, when an anonymous phone call took him from Manhattan to Tucson, Ariz., and a three-hour interview with a confidant of Family Man, Joe Bonanno. His article appeared with our cover story on the Mafia (TIME, Aug. 22, 1969). Last summer Willwerth reported on the shooting of Joe Colombo...
...approving executions in order to fan the flames and encourage the Colombos and Gallos to kill one another off. Eventually, 73-year-old Carlo Gambino hopes, the war will leave him in undisputed control of four of the five New York Families. The holdout would be the Bonanno family, run by Natale Evola, which controls trucking and narcotics rackets in Manhattan. The other clans are the Lucchese gang, run by Carmine Tramunti; the Genovese family, bossed by Jerry Catena; and the Gallos and Colombos (see chart, page...