Word: dio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charter, then I can get some more members, then I can collect dues, then I can have a union treasury, then I can buy a Cadillac, then I can take trips to Florida to confer with other union leaders." Even New York Labor Extortionist Johnny Dio was willing to put out $20,000 of his own money to start a Teamsters' local. Nobody ever accused Dio of caring about the working stiff; it was simply a first-rate investment...
...only 88 minutes, a Manhattan jury last week convicted three minor figures in the acid blinding of Labor Columnist Victor Riesel (TIME, Sept. 10 et ante). Two were sentenced to five years in federal prison, the other to two years. Scheduled for trial this week: Mob Chief Johnny Dio (real name: Dioguardi), 42, charged with plotting the attack to keep Riesel from testifying in a grand-jury investigation of trucking-and garment-industry rackets...
Into separate Manhattan jails last week went five more hoodlums accused by the FBI of participating in the acid attack on Labor Columnist Victor Riesel (TIME, Aug. 27 et ante). The gang, whose records range from gun-carrying to robbery to narcotics, was headed by Johnny Dio (born Dioguardi), a highly successful career hoodlum. Raised on the lower East Side, Dio at 20 was milking protection money from garment-district truckers, at 23 was sent to Sing Sing by Racket-Busting Tom Dewey, at 26 emerged to try new fields. Last spring District Attorney Frank Hogan charged Dio had been...
...Riesel attack, according to FBI agents, had been planned last Easter when Dio called a meeting in a lower Manhattan candy store, announced that he needed someone to toss some acid. Storekeeper Gondolfo Miranti relayed the request to Bakeryman Domenico Bando, who sought out Joseph Carlino. Carlino dredged up Hungry Hoodlum Abraham Telvi to carry out the attack. Telvi was given a bottle of sulphuric acid, stationed on a Manhattan side street and told to await a Mr. Marshall, whose wife wanted him burned because he was unfaithful. Go Between Miranti shadowed Riesel to Lindy's Restaurant, spotted...
...Despite Dio & Co.'s arrest, there are nagging loose ends: Was the acid bath to silence Riesel, as the Government insisted, or to even a grudge? If the columnist had to be silenced, why wasn't he murdered? And why should Dio, whose name had not appeared in a Riesel column since 1953, be anxious to attack him? Biggest question of all: Did the chain of command really stop at Johnny Dio...