Word: hoodlumism
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...Jersey stop the hoodlum onslaught? Probably not. Concedes Michael...
Ullo, 49, a short, wily onetime New York City hoodlum who moved west 14 years ago, had been arrested a week earlier on a convenient charge of loan-sharking, with bail set at $1 million. Federal officials believe that he murdered Jack Molinas, 43, a gambling figure and porn-film distributor who was found shot in the head in his Hollywood Hills home in August 1975. The other victim: Vincent Calderazzo, a New York Mafia soldier whose bones were discovered by hikers in a shallow desert grave near Victorville, Calif., in March. Both were killed with...
...Winchester, he managed to loot a Maltese investment fund of $600,000 before being jailed. Joseph Barboza, a New England hit man with 27 murders to his credit, was relocated in San Francisco as Joseph Bently; shortly afterward, local authorities arrested him-for murder. Louis Bombacino, a Chicago hoodlum, was given a floor-sweeping job at the Arizona Public Service Co. in Tempe. He was eventually caught peddling irrigation equipment stolen from the company and profiting from a gambling-prostitution ring. Justice officials admit that at least 10% of relocated witnesses are arrested again later, and the Government rarely compensates...
...with nothing to lose, are recruited to drive the explosive by truck over a road that traverses swamps, rain forests, mountains and deserts. Unlike Clouzot, Friedkin gives us extensive biographies on three of them-an Arab terrorist, a French banker who has been caught in fraud, a small-time hoodlum who has made the mistake of robbing the parish church of a Mafia boss (during which his brother, a priest, was wounded...
...dons. Years ago, the don was both a prince of crime and social arbiter among Italians in his territory. But the breakup of the old Italian neighborhoods has stripped away his social functions?and any romanticism that might have surrounded him. Today he is no more than a hoodlum who has reached the top by outwitting, frightening, maiming or killing his rivals. Says Schiller: "We are dealing here with brutality and inhumanity beyond belief...