Word: capo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city hall. With unidentified inside help, locked doors opened mysteriously for the gunmen, who took up positions in the hall outside one particular cell. Tossing restlessly on the hard pallet behind the bars was chunky Carmine ("Lillo") Galante, 68, who once aspired to become the Mafia's capo di tutti capi (boss of bosses). As lights dimmed in the cell block, the two armed men settled down for a nightlong vigil. Their assignment: to keep other mobsters from putting Lillo to sleep forever...
...away. A few days later, the villains wrap up their captive in a plastic bag and drive to a more remote hideout. After languishing for days in her new quarters, Giovanna falls in love with Daniel. He too is smitten. Offstage he croons the aria Posa il tuo capo sulla mia spalla (Rest your head upon my shoulder...
...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...
...most celebrated former witness to date is Gerald Martin Zelmanowitz, a Brooklyn-born former stock swindler whose testimony resulted in the 1970 conviction of notorious Mafia Capo Angelo ("Gyp") DeCarlo. With his family, Zelmanowitz was relocated in San Francisco, where he became Paul Maris and eventually entered the ladies' garment business. The flamboyant Maris, né Zelmanowitz, got control of a 350-employee company but soon became embroiled in messy civil litigation with the firm's New York financial backers...
...Hawaii. He stays so visible that, in a flurry of stories two months ago, New York newspapers concluded that he had already become the new capo di tutti capi (TIME, March...