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Word: capodecina (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1979-1979
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...politicians among his friends. But because of his occupational affiliation with the city's notoriously corrupt waterfront and his 1957 marriage to the niece of Mobster Albert Anastasia, police considered Scotto to be a criminal. In 1969, the FBI went so far as to identify him as a capodecina, or lieutenant, in the Mafia family of Carlo Gambino, an allegation that the union leader vehemently denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Scotto: Out of the Dock | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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