Word: lewisburg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also tracking Galante was a skilled Colombo family hit man, Carmine ("the Snake") Persico. Serving a 14-year sentence in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta for hijacking, the Snake somehow managed to get himself transferred to Danbury. But during the trip north, he was held briefly at the Lewisburg, Pa., federal prison and was visited there by another Colombo gangster. Federal authorities interpreted the meeting as a sign that something was afoot and detained Persico in Lewisburg...
Jimmy and Tony Pro had long been buddies, but they almost came to blows in July 1967, when both were serving time in Lewisburg, Tony Pro for extortion. A fellow convict told Brill that the two argued over how to divide up Teamster turf, and Hoffa made it clear that he would give no help to Tony Pro. "Tony was explaining to Jimmy how he was going to get right back into things in New Jersey," recalled the convict. "Well, Jimmy exploded at him. 'Look,' he said, 'when you get out, you guys are going to have...
...beginning of the end for Hoffa came in 1971, when President Nixon commuted his 13-year sentence in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary for jury tampering. Once free, Hoffa set out to regain control of the union from Frank Fitzsimmons, his hand-picked successor. But Fitzsimmons had come to enjoy the power and perks and had no intention of stepping down. The mobsters, who had been flourishing during Fitzsimmons' genially relaxed reign-joining various regional Teamster bosses in lucrative loan sharking, pension-fund frauds, sweetheart contracts, management-union kickback deals and other rackets-did not want Hoffa back either. They feared...
...investigation into the case soon stalled. But when Provenzano went to Lewisburg Penitentiary in 1966 for shaking down a trucking firm executive, he became embroiled in a vendetta with a fellow inmate, former Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa, who had enraged Tony Pro by denying him a union pension. Both were eventually set free, and mob leaders summoned Hoffa to a peacemaking conference with Provenzano in a Detroit parking lot on July 30, 1975. Hoffa has not been seen since...
...emphasis has been on selection. In the future it will be on recruitment," noted Richard Skelton of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa. In the meantime, small colleges are fearful. Says Tom Daniels, director of admissions at the 800-student Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, Iowa: "The next 15 years may well be some of the most crucial times in higher education...