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...move was a step in the right direction, some investigators and officials in the field nonetheless contend that it is another case of the cleanup team's doing the barest minimum necessary to keep the feds at bay. The Buffalo local, they say, is such a well-known Cosa Nostra fortress--and so prominently featured in the Justice Department's original complaint--that union investigators had to act. Also, some of the ousted officials took with them large life-insurance policies with immediate cash value. Those officials also dropped a lawsuit against the international union that could have forced Coia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRUITS OF THEIR LABOR | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...masterminding the 1993 car bombs that damaged the Uffizi museum in Florence, two churches in Rome and an art gallery in Milan. He planned the bombings following the arrest of Salvatero Riina, the Mafia's Boss of bosses, and Pope John Paul II's public condemnation of La Cosa Nostra. -->