Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York-area Mafiosi had expected Masselli to testify in Special Federal Prosecutor Leon Silverman's probe of Donovan's activities as an executive of New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. Nat worked for his father William, 56, a convicted hijacker who owned an excavating firm that had subcontracts with Donovan's firm. Testimony in the Bronx County trial showed that Salvatore Odierno, 68, and Phil Buono, 68, Mafia soldiers, had met Nat Masselli last August to talk him out of cooperating with Silverman...
...What am I going to do?" asked a distraught Manhattan banker who, at 25, had invested $25,000 of his parents' savings with Saxon. He was seeking advice from the office of New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams. A New Jersey caller reported buying $250,000 worth of gold from Saxon. Declared one weary investigator: "Many of these people even sound well educated and experienced...
...Jersey Nets guard Michael Ray Richardson, who last week admitted he had succumbed again to a cocaine dependency, was waived yesterday by the National Basketball Association team...
...sticky situations has been tried before. In 1982 Manville filed for reorganization to protect itself from an estimated $2 billion worth of suits flowing from alleged health dangers of its asbestos products. The company today is thriving. The Supreme Court is now reviewing a case in which a New Jersey building-supply company declared bankruptcy to escape a labor agreement with the Teamsters. A lower court has already ruled in favor of the company, saying that the terms of the contract were "burdensome...
...accommodate the higher costs of running hospitals in urban areas. (The rate for a simple appendectomy in Chicago: $3,825; the same operation in Lawton, Okla.: $2,773.) Psychiatric hospitals, long-term care facilities and rehabilitation centers are exempt from the new regulations. So are hospitals in Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, which have their own cost-containment programs...