Word: frigenti
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Gangsters deported from the U.S. to Italy usually suffer from acute nostalgia for the old easygoing, easy-taking American ways. Last week a deported Chicago hoodlum named Frank Frigenti remembered enough of his American education to organize a sort of Neapolitan public-relations campaign. Frigenti was once condemned to the electric chair for murdering his mother-in-law, but his sentence was changed to life imprisonment, ending in deportation...
...What are we supposed to do?" asked aggrieved expatriate Frigenti. "Form another mobsters' syndicate-or eat each other?" Instead, he offered to lead 500 gangster exiles in a 140-mile hunger march from Naples to Rome for a demonstration before the U.S. embassy to seek re-entry into the U.S. "In America," Frigenti proclaimed, "these people were used to handling thousands and thousands of dollars. They drove in powerful automobiles...
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