Word: cosa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credibility, and are expected to charge that he is singing in an effort to avoid prosecution for Mob murders in Sicily. But to date, Buscetta has provided the most revealing glimpse into the Mafia since ( American Mobster Joseph Valachi first outlined the structure and the secret name of the Cosa Nostra...
...other hand Gian Marco Venturi has provided an outlet for the Peter Pan in us it with a wing shouldered jacket and cowed collar. Leather specialist Gianni varsace has opted for a look that combines the best features of prep punk and cosa nostra the six stalwarts in coordinatingly cashing suits and ties demonstrates that designers have given up trying to teach men now to match their clothes and have decided to convert tastelessness into tastelessness. They matched sets. In the liberated '80's ther is no need for six guys to share the same closed...
...poor man's coke," the powder produces a cocaine-like high at half the price. Methamphetamine, at $60 a gram, is the discount drug of choice on the West Coast and a multimillion-dollar-a-year business for a new form of organized crime, a California-style Cosa Nostra on wheels. "We've got contract murders, interstate narcotics transactions, shipments of stolen property, cars and weapons," asserts U.S. Marshal Budd Johnson, member of a San Diego drug task force, the Organized Special Investigation Team (O.S.I.T.). "The Hell's Angels today are the new Mafia...
Never passed along to the committee, for example, was an FBI report that "one source indicates the upper management of the Schiavone Construction Co. [where Donovan was a vice president] is closely aligned with the Vito Genovese family of L.C.N. [La Cosa Nostra]." It named the company official, who was not Donovan, allegedly providing this Mafia tie. This report was initialed by two top FBI officials, Francis Mullen and Charles P. Monroe. Both appeared at the confirmation hearings, but report told the committee of this alleged Mafia connection...
...confirmation hearings. The FBI did warn Fred Fielding, a Reagan transition aide handling background checks on Cabinet nominees. In a written report following up telephone calls to Fielding, the FBI told him that it had corroborated information that Donovan had "close personal and business ties with known La Cosa Nostra figures." Neither Fielding, who is now the White House Counsel, nor anyone on the transition team nor the FBI gave this report to the Senate committee at that time...