Word: contract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...board (so is Rice) who owns about 40% of the stock but is not actively involved in management. When the company went public two years ago, he netted $20 million. He is also the company's prime asset: this is the third year of a seven-year contract under which anything he writes has to go to the Group...
...their trust and came close to being initiated as a wise guy -- a "made" Mafioso. He helped arrange business deals between crime families in different parts of the country and was the subject of three Mob-style tribunals, or "sit-downs," any of which could have resulted in a contract on his life. "In the Mafia, it's always someone you know real well who kills you," says Pistone, 48, a tall, swarthy, bearded man with the build of an athlete...
Danger still lurks: the Mafia commission put out a $500,000 contract on Pistone's life, forcing him and his long-suffering family to live under an assumed name somewhere in New Jersey. Pistone, who left the FBI in 1986, is no longer protected by the agency but carries a .38-cal. pistol at all times. The Mob has reason to rage at the former agent: his daring double life was instrumental in gaining more than 100 federal convictions of organized-crime members. He was a key witness in the "pizza connection" case involving Sicilian heroin importers, as well...
...unloading stolen trucks and buying stolen guns. "What would happen, I thought, if I'm out with Sonny and Lefty and we get caught in a battle," he recalls. The situation never arose, but as he came closer to being initiated into the Mob, he was given a contract by Sonny Black to kill a fellow Mafioso. Before Pistone could run the mobster to earth, the FBI ended the operation, and on July 26, 1981, Agent Pistone came in from the heat...
...dispose of hazardous waste. The Pentagon had never asked for the advice, but Senator J. Bennett Johnston, a Louisiana Democrat, found time to stuff the chestnuts into the pork roast for his own constituents. Xavier's share of the grant, about $7 million over two years, is its largest contract ever...