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...more than a year U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani and his partners in law enforcement had been waiting for this day. From March 1984 through last February, Giuliani's New York office produced eight indictments against the city's most powerful Mafia bosses and their lieutenants. Last week the first two of those cases opened with the selection of anonymous juries in Manhattan's federal district court. It is a major test for an ambitious prosecutor: if Giuliani can win enough convictions in these and other trials scheduled to begin during the next six months, he not only would deal...
Retired Mobster Joe Bonanno had no qualms about discussing his life as "a man of honor" in his 1983 autobiography of that name. But when U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani wanted Bonanno to talk about eleven alleged mobsters who rule New York City's crime families, the self-confessed capo clammed up. Bonanno, 80, who now lives in Tucson, suffers from high blood pressure and a narrowing of the coronary arteries. He claimed that the stress of testifying against his old associates could kill...
Like earlier immigrant gangs, observes Manhattan-based U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, the new arrivals "at the core are acting as parasites on their own people." In classic fashion they concentrate at first on shaking down local merchants. One difference, officials agree, is that the modern gang is vastly more violent and better armed than its predecessors. The Viet Ching, Vietnamese of Chinese extraction in Los Angeles, pack .357 Magnums and, occasionally, machine guns. In San Francisco, says Inspector John McKenna, "it's not uncommon to see guys carrying grenades...
Many law-enforcement officials contend that giving corporate criminals the benefit of a double standard is destructive to society. Asks Rudolph Giuliani, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who has prosecuted some of the largest tax-fraud cases: "If executives who make healthy salaries can't abide by the law, how do we expect the disadvantaged not to break the law?" Says Anton Valukas, the U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois: "I guess what bothers me is that we are talking about privileged people, people with the best educations who seem to have the basest motives...
Harsh penalties may be the most effective deterrent to executive-suite misdeeds. Says U.S. Attorney Giuliani: "Corporate crime is a crime of greed and fear. The best way to combat it is to raise the fear." Experts hope that the sentence given Thayer and the long prison term that Butcher is expected to receive will send a message to would-be business criminals about the consequences of getting caught...