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...impulsive nature; he is no intellectual and appears unreflective. "Clearly, he's not a great thinker," says one longtime Massachusetts political observer. "But he makes up for it by doing." A close friend notes, "He's incredibly competitive. Imagine racing him in a 100-yard dash with a brick wall at the 101st yard. I'd start slowing down at the 90th yard, but Joe will run full tilt to win the race, even though he is certain to hit the wall...
...brick walls which line the inside of the ice cream shop caused sanitary problems because they are very difficult to keep clean in a food preparation area, Nicoloro said...
...over the windows and crucifixes above the doors. Most of its residents were Italian and middle class. She would pass mom-and-pop stores, funeral parlors, and butcher shops that displayed an array of Italian sausages in the window. On her right, she often glanced at an inconspicuous red brick building known, oddly enough, as the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club. It caught her attention because there were always men loitering out front. She recalls wondering, What do these men do for a living...
...Justice Department, Gotti was moving up through the ranks of the Mafia. Four years ago, their paths crossed more decisively. Giacalone had become an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, and Gotti was a feared capo in the Gambino family who ruthlessly ran his empire from the same red brick building on 101st Avenue. Giacalone had just successfully prosecuted four men for two armored-car robberies totaling $1 million, and set about to trace the unrecovered money. Some of it, she discovered, had found its way to a place she vaguely remembered, the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club...
...next four years Diane Giacalone pieced together exactly what those men loitering in front of that red brick building did for a living. In doing so, she painstakingly constructed against John Gotti and nine others a case involving loan sharking, gambling, hijacking and murder. Today, in an unembellished chamber at federal court in Brooklyn, Gotti and Giacalone sit across from each other, about the same distance apart as the width of 101st Avenue...