Word: briguglio
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According to Government informers, Provenzano and his muscleman, Salvatore Briguglio, ordered in early January 1973 that $500,000 in cash be delivered to a White House courier in Las Vegas. Provenzano allegedly told an associate he had collected the money at Fitzsimmons' request and that another $500,000 had been provided for Nixon -also on Fitzsimmons' orders-by Allen Dorfman, a convicted Chicago labor racketeer and adviser to the Teamsters Union pension fund. Provenzano was quoted further as saying the cash had been requested by White House Aide Charles Colson, who handled the Administration's relations with...
Last week federal officials reported that sources within Local 560 had accused three of Provenzano's New Jersey associates of committing the crime. The trio: Salvatore Briguglio, 47, an ex-con described by Government agents as an enforcer for Tony Pro in the rackets and union affairs; Gabriel Briguglio, his brother and a union underling; and Thomas Andretta, 38, a collector for loan sharks who was once imprisoned for threatening borrowers' lives...