Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Morse said police are trying to narrow the time range of when the crime occurred...
That policy, and the resulting publicity when the Drug Enforcement Administration targeted him as organized crime's top man, began to alienate the other Mafia bosses. While Galante was still in prison, he was stalked by killers...
...Carmine Galante, 69, shot in the left eye and chest, his teeth still clenching his familiar black cigar. Galante was one of the Mafia's most powerful and feared bosses. Killed with him were a bodyguard, Leonardo Coppola, 40, and Turano, reputedly an adviser to Galante's crime family. The restaurant owner's son John, 17, was wounded. The execution had been carefully set up in advance. While the gunmen blazed away, Caesar Bonventra, 28, a Galante recruit who a Mafia insider said had set up his boss for the slaying, stood quietly by. Then he walked...
...answer was simple enough. Satirizing the pop politics of California's Governor Jerry Brown, Trudeau had turned his biting pen on a labor lawyer and Brown contributor, Sidney Korshak, describing him with several harsh characterizations, including "known organized crime figure." While Korshak is no stranger to criminal investigators, the newspapers felt, as the Times put it, that the cartoons were "unfair, irresponsible and unsubstantiated." Callers accused the papers of trying to protect Brown. Said the Guv: "I think it is false and libelous, but I'm flattered by the attention...
When he wants forgotten is not minor. Much more than the actual crime, Kennedy's refusal to clear up once and for all what happened July 18, 1969 sticks in the craw. Ten years after, it still seems possible that the closest Kennedy has come to telling the truth was his confession to the people of Massachusetts that his crime was "indefensible...