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...Speed) Salerno was ousted last September by the Teamsters' court-appointed administrator. Salerno, 77, who has been convicted of extortion in the past, is not a "made" Mafia member. But he allegedly diverted union money to his brother Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno, a former front man of the Genovese clan, who is serving a sentence of 170 years for racketeering and murder...
Neil Rudenstine is known for consulting with a wide range of people before he makes decisions. Apparently, it runs in the family. All three of his children say the close-knit Rudenstine clan stays in close contact, rapping on everything from academic politics to public education reform...
...will benefit from a large sympathy vote. An alternative theory is that Indians, aghast at the party's desperate flounderings, will opt in large numbers for the better-organized but politically ominous B.J.P. The outcome in either case would be an ironic footnote to the history of an illustrious clan: its latter-day stamp on public life would have come from an act of great violence...
...name for excellence; they promoted liberal orthodoxy and civic virtue, but had scant national profile. Thus it is a touch baffling that the past four years have yielded four books linked to the family feud that led to the sale of the dailies and reduced to mere wealth the clan's erstwhile power...
VIDEO: Goodbye to J.R. and his clan...