Word: goldstock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equal importance, Pistone exposed the degree to which Government crime- busting efforts have weakened the Mafia, says Ronald Goldstock, director of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. The Mob, which once ran thorough security checks on any stranger, simply lacked the "discipline and internal controls" to unmask the agent, he says...
...particularly bloody period of gang warfare, the commission divides turf among families, settles disputes and sanctions the slayings of those who break the rules. It now has several vacancies that may not be easy to fill. "The machinery to resolve those disputes has been wiped out," contends Ronald Goldstock, head of the New York State organized-crime task force. But if Mob rivalries are allowed to fester, he notes, the result could be a new outburst of gangland violence...
...Goldstock and other investigators think the shrewder members of the Mob may now either pass up the vacant leadership slots or else move into them only gradually to keep from being spotted by press or prosecutors. Predicts Lieut. Remo Franceschini, one of the New York police department's top Mob watchers: "We are going to see a return to the old days, when the Mafia really was a secret organization...
...between the Lucchese boss and his driver, Salvatore Avellino, to agents trailing discreetly in various "chase cars," which rebroadcast the signals to a recording van. "It was the most significant information regarding the structure and function of the Commission that has ever been obtained from electronic surveillance," declared Ronald Goldstock, chief of the Organized Crime Task Force. After building his own case against the Lucchese family for a local carting-industry racket, Goldstock alerted Giuliani to the broader implications of using the evidence to attack the Mob's controlling Commission...
...They also suspected that Castellano had been the source of information for the Government's case against the Commission, through an FBI bug planted in his neoclassical Staten Island home. The leaders were probably convinced that they had a greater likelihood of getting off without Castellano around. Says Ronald Goldstock, director of New York's organized crime task force: "Everyone agreed that they were better off with him dead." But New York FBI Chief John Hogan asserts, "The killing does not hurt our investigation...