Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...widely reported that Hughes left Nassau because the Bahamian government suddenly found that several of his aides-the "Mormon Mafia" -did not have the work permits required of foreigners. Actually, the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, which is conducting a grand jury investigation of the Irving hoax, had issued a subpoena for Hughes to testify. On Valentine's Day, U.S. postal inspectors appeared in Nassau with the summons; federal officials intended to impanel a grand jury in either Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands to hear Hughes -at night, if he so desired. The postal inspectors consulted...
...response to a question whether he would permit the Mafia to recruit at the OGCP, Wickenden said, "I would discuss that with Dean Whitlock...
...Hughes. U.S. postal investigators were checking hotel records in Florida and other places to determine whether Irving ever met Hughes, as he claims, for more than 100 hours of talk. Other federal men pursued a lead that Irving may have needed money to pay off loan sharks of the Mafia family of Carlo Gambino. Meantime the Internal Revenue Service signed tax liens against all of Irving's 1971 earnings, including the $650,000 in publisher's advances to "H.R. Hughes" that the Irvings had banked in Zurich. Swiss officials issued warrants for the Irvings' arrest...
...release Peter and John then set but to blackmail a cop who is dealing the confiscated dope on the sly? That complications follow--from the introduction of heroin to a mock-up of the South Station to a climactic shoot-out at Walden Pond between the cops and the Mafia? That Peter and Susan survive it all to ride off into the sunset...
...EVEN BEYOND such ennui, the film's fraught with moral confusion. Caught between disdainful comedy and genre suspense, Dealing is schizophrenic. The audience ends up applauding the comic Mafia types as they gun down the rather thuggish cops while boogie-woogie hammers away in the background. The final, irrelevant shoot-out is reminiscent of Jacobean revenge drama--and just about as decadent...