Word: bonomi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tantrum on the bench like a baby in a high chair,"testified Jean Cox, an attorney for the Legal Aid Society. On one occasion, she said, the judge had denounced her as "just a crummy little lawyer from the crummy little Legal Aid Society." Former Assistant District Attorney John Bonomi agreed that lawyers and attendants were often "Cooperized"-i.e., "excoriated and publicly humiliated"-for smiling or rustling papers. To defendants, especially juvenile delinquents, the judge was withering. "You are all punks," he told a group of young defendants on one occasion. When a grand jury committee made a recommendation that...
There were other facts of life, too, Gibson admitted. The cartel paid $9,000 to Hoodlum Frank ("Blinky") Palermo, who is allegedly running Carbo's boxing empire while the boss is in jail. While Gibson doodled, Subcommittee Investigator John Bonomi summed up his testimony: "Almost every leading manager or promoter in the U.S. is either closely associated with or controlled by Frankie Carbo in some degree...