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...ways of moving the women around town without notice of the camera crews, using techniques he honed as a 1980s prosecutor in the San Francisco organized-crime strike-force office. There he planned movements of such famous guests of the federal witness-protection program as Aladena ("Jimmy the Weasel") Fratianno...
Once the Mafia's top West Coast enforcer, Aladena ("Jimmy the Weasel") Fratianno became one of the Government's most valuable informers in 1977. Since then, he has testified at numerous trials and written two books on the Mob. The Justice Department placed him under the Witness Protection Program, and has spent $1 million protecting Fratianno and moving him to a secret location with a new identity...
Last week, however, the department decided that Fratianno had outlived his usefulness. The former mobster lost his government subsidy, and will have to live on book royalties and Social Security. For the Weasel, that is cold comfort. "I put 30 guys away -- six of them bosses," he told a reporter. "I'm a dead...
Jill Rosen (Rosanna Arquette) is bright, Jewish and just pretty enough to be told she has that Audrey Hepburn quality. "Sheik" Capadilupo (Vincent Spano) is Italian and shiftless, with Vaselined hair and a wardrobe that Giorgio Armani might have designed for Jimmy ("the Weasel") Fratianno. She loves rock 'n' roll, he loves Sinatra. She's going to Sarah Lawrence, he's going nowhere. They have nothing in common but an over whelming love for her. But something in Jill thrills to the troubles Sheik gets himself into and to the threat he poses to her middle...
Besides giving evidence on the Bompensiero murder, Fratianno has provided the FBI with details of at least ten West Coast gangland slayings since 1951. Most were disciplinary actions aimed at small-fry mobsters. He has also given authorities a firsthand account of the Mafia's Las Vegas rackets. He has described how Chicago Mob bosses demanded $1 million from an unnamed casino owner. When their regular Las Vegas contact, John Roselli, failed to collect the money, the dons ordered Roselli killed; he was asphyxiated in 1976 (Roselli gained notoriety in 1975 when he told a Senate committee that...