Word: extortionists
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...union, then I can get a 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...
...acid of his pen consistently at Communism, racketeering and racial bias in U.S. unions. His words have often been as hard as his father's fists. Typical opening jab: "For March, my private crook-of-the-month club award goes to Joe Fay [of the Operating Engineers Union], extortionist emeritus of the mobs...
...vice president. Since then Beck has watched with apparent helplessness while Hoffa expanded his sphere of influence. Not long ago, in a bid to get enough votes to control the teamsters' New York Joint Council, Hoffa quietly procured charters for seven small New York locals, dominated by convicted Extortionist Johnny Dio. Nor does Hoffa's ambition stop with control of the I.B.T. as it now stands. Ultimately, as his negotiations with the I.L.A. suggest, he hopes to incorporate the maritime industry in the teamsters' empire...
Died. Louis ("Little New York'') Campagna, 54, retired Capone gang gunman, extortionist and gambling boss; of a heart attack suffered while playing a 30-lb. fish on a pleasure cruiser at sea; in Miami. A graduate of New York's "Five Points" gang, Campagna followed Capone to Chicago as his bodyguard, later, after Capone went to prison for income-tax evasion, shared control of his vice and gambling syndicate with Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti. Sentenced to ten years in prison in a $1,000,000 movie extortion case in 1943, he was paroled after serving...
...soon goes on to tell what it's like to be a lamster's widow. "I thought it would last forever, like one of them watches you don't have to wind. But we sure done a lot of windin'." For a while the extortionist plays in-and-out-the window with the hot-car ring, but the game soon ends with the Feds an easy winner all around, and the extortionist's victim (Ruth Roman) sighing gratefully up at the great big wonderful...