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...Ties between Flood and Pennsylvania Rackets Boss Russell Bufalino. The suspected link: the Wilkes-Barre firm of Medico Industries, controlled by President Philip Medico and his brothers. The FBI discovered more than a decade ago that Flood steered Government business to the Medicos and traveled often on their company jet. Investigators say Bufalino frequently visited the Medico offices; agents tape-recorded Bufalino's description of Philip as a capo (chief) in his Mafia family. Elko's testimony has sparked new investigative interest in the Flood-Medico-Bufalino triangle...
...eyes were on Frankie and Dean. A few were on the audience, which included top Mafiosi from New York and other parts of the country. Among them were Jimmy ("the Weasel") Fratianno of San Francisco, Mike Rizzitello of Los Angeles, Tony Spilotro of Las Vegas, Russell Bufalino of Scran ton, Pa., and several associates of Philadelphia Boss Angelo Bruno...
...Mafiosi were Russell Bufalino, now the mob boss in Scranton, Pa., and two lesser fry: James Plumeri and Salvatore ("Sally Burns") Granello, of New York City. Before Castro overthrew Dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, the three men controlled a race track and a huge gambling casino near Havana. When Castro took power, he banished the three. The trio left behind $450,000, which they asked friends to hold for them. The money, the take from the casino's last days, belonged to Mafia clans in New York, Chicago and Pittsburgh...
...Road. When the CIA was planning the Bay of Pigs invasion, its agents learned about the $450,000 and reckoned that Bufalino, Plumeri and Granello would be anxious to get even with Castro. The agency asked the three to use their contacts in Cuba to assess the chances that an invasion would set off a popular uprising against Castro. The CIA also assigned the Mafia to pinpoint the roads that Castro might use to deploy troops and tanks in meeting attacking forces. Bufalino, Plumeri and Granello ordered their old contacts on the island to set up a small network...
Hoffa either ignored the board's clean-up recommendations or evaded them by appealing to higher courts-with significant success. He also stalled. The former Hoffa-appointed monitor, Daniel Maher, started skipping meetings. His successor, William ("Buffo") Bufalino, a Hoffa crony and head of a Detroit Teamster local that was described by the Senate rackets committee as "a leech preying on working men and women," started walking out of meetings. Strangely, insurgent-appointed Monitor Lawrence T. Smith was hard to find when meetings were called, and he accused Chairman Martin F. O'Donoghue of being obsessed with "getting...