Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deception of Wilfred ("Willie Boy") Johnson, a Gambino-family associate. Caught carrying $50,000 in a paper bag in 1981, Johnson invited New York City detectives to help themselves to the cash. They charged him with bribery. After that Johnson, who hung out at Gotti's Bergen Hunt and Fish Club, kept the cops posted on how the rising star was progressing. He also suggested where bugs might be placed...
...Most of its residents were Italian and middle class. She would pass mom-and-pop stores, funeral parlors, and butcher shops that displayed an array of Italian sausages in the window. On her right, she often glanced at an inconspicuous red brick building known, oddly enough, as the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club. It caught her attention because there were always men loitering out front. She recalls wondering, What do these men do for a living...
...Bergen Hunt and Fish Club was then the haunt of a smart and sharp young hoodlum named John Gotti. Over the next 15 years, while Giacalone moved from college to law school to a job at the Justice Department, Gotti was moving up through the ranks of the Mafia. Four years ago, their paths crossed more decisively. Giacalone had become an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, and Gotti was a feared capo in the Gambino family who ruthlessly ran his empire from the same red brick building on 101st Avenue. Giacalone had just successfully prosecuted four men for two armored...
LAST FALL, Democratic National Chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. '60 and his cadre of politicos at the Democratic National Committee put together a new "Policy Commission" to inject some excitement into their moribund party. The mandate of this fearsome phalanx was to hunt down some New Ideas and forge them in the Great Democratic Furnace. The desired result? A new image for the Democratic Party...
...rush of '86 is considerably different from that of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Back then, when the price of gold soared to $850 per oz., dozens of small operators and thousands of individual prospectors jumped into the hunt. Most of those revenants of the sourdough era have since disappeared in an industry shake-out that began in the early 1980s, as the value of gold headed downward. The boom is now mostly confined to large, well-financed firms that were initially attracted by gold's higher price. With gold currently selling at more than...