Word: gravano
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DIED. PETER MAAS, 72, writer who chronicled the lives of Mafia insiders; in New York City. He collaborated with such high-profile Mob informants as Joseph Valachi (The Valachi Papers, 1969), confidant to Vito Genovese, and Sammy (The Bull) Gravano (Underboss, 1997), whose testimony helped undo John Gotti. In between, Maas wrote the best-selling Serpico, about a steadfast New York City cop who exposed graft in the police ranks...
...Pacino, respectively; in New York City. When Maas received $400,000 for the film rights to the story of Frank Serpico's struggle against corruption within the New York City police department, he gave half of it to Serpico. He also chronicled the careers of Sammy ("The Bull") Gravano, the Mafia informant, and Aldrich Ames, the CIA turncoat. DIED. KIM STANLEY, 76, stage and screen actress best remembered for her portrayal of Cherie, the saucy nightclub singer in the original Broadway production of Bus Stop; in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her performances in the films Seance on a Wet Afternoon...
...creditors; in Tokyo. Mizushima headed Sogo for 38 years before stepping down last year amid the company's mounting financial troubles. After suffering from heart-attack symptoms last week, he checked into a Tokyo hospital, where he was questioed by police and arrested. PLEADED GUILTY. SALVATORE ("SAMMY THE BULL") GRAVANO, 55, to charges of running an Arizona-based ecstasy-dealing ring; in a Brooklyn federal court. A former hit man for the Gambino crime family, Gravano had been on the witness protection program since he testified against Mafia boss John Gotti...
...intense surveillance, the police moved in on Feb. 24. They arrested Sammy, Debra, his daughter Karen, her fiance David Seabrook, Gerard as well as Papa and 41 others. In raids on their properties, police found ecstasy pills, guns and nearly $100,000 in cash, most of it in the Gravano house. (In Sammy's separate apartment, the only drugs found were pot and Viagra.) Gravano, who has pleaded not guilty, is still in jail, unable to come up with $5 million bail. There is some skepticism about the extent of Gravano's role among federal officials who know him. They...
Still, a DEA source theorizes, even as a mentor, Gravano "seems to have forgotten all he learned. He just did everything wrong. He used his own house for meetings and to store drugs. He used his own telephone without even trying to use code words. He drove a flashy Lexus that made him stand out. He left records of the transactions around. He used his wife to monitor the money and kids to run the operation. He prided himself on being a mobster. But he sure forgot what John Gotti taught...