Word: decarlo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pocket vetoes and Executive privilege. He also helped arrange Nixon's commutation of jail sentences being served by Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa (which was widely interpreted as a political gesture in return for Teamster support of Nixon in the election) and by Mafia Capo Angelo ("Gyp") DeCarlo. Nonetheless, Clark MacGregor, who headed the re-election committee after John Mitchell resigned, recalls Dean not as part of the power elite but as a "wall sitter"-one who carried out policy rather than helped make...
...real estate in 1945. It now makes up the bulk of his net worth of $300,000. His Democratic opponent next fall will be Brendan T. Byrne, 49, a former superior court judge who likes to recall having been described in the late '60s by Mafioso Angelo ("Gyp") DeCarlo as a politician who could not be bought. Indeed, he likes the tag so much that he used it as his campaign slogan and rolled to an easy victory in a state clearly surfeited with scandal...