Word: dioguardia
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...Murder. Valachi quickly kissed Genovese back "to let him know I was smart and I would answer him in the same style-kill him too." Valachi was so frightened he asked prison guards to put him in solitary confinement. But as soon as he got out, Mafia Mobster John Dioguardia (Johnny Dio), who was in charge of the prison shower room, invited Valachi in to take a shower. Valachi, convinced he would be murdered there, refused. Panicky, he tried to "stay out of crowds" in the prison yard, finally grabbed a length of iron pipe lying conveniently in the yard...
Hoffa admitted that John Dioguardia, a convicted New York extortioner, was a close friend of his. He said that he met Dioguardia several years ago in union meetings but now believes that his friend has no connection with organized labor...
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