Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police, aided by the FBI, searched for a clue to the murders. They expressed doubt that any top union leaders were involved, and discounted rumors that the Mafia was responsible -rumors fed by unproved campaign charges that Yablonski was linked to organized crime. Police speculated that the murder was the result of an old grudge by one of Yablonski's enemies. Those were so numerous that it might take a long while to run them all down...
...enforcement officials have long maintained that the Mafia has extensive influence over officials at every level of government in New Jersey. The Mafiosi apparently feel that way too. In lengthy transcripts of bugged Mafia conversations made public last week, New Jersey hoodlums boasted of their power to control and corrupt public officials throughout the state, from the statehouse at Trenton to the smallest municipal police station...
...transcript was disclosed at the federal extortion trial of Mafia Leader Angelo ("Gyp") De Carlo, 67, and three associates in Newark. It contained conversations recorded electronically by the FBI from 1961 to 1965, primarily at De Carlo's Mountainside, N.J., headquarters. It was the second major revelation of bugged New Jersey Mafia conversations in the past year. Parts of the dialogue had been published in LIFE in 1967. but the full transcript had never before been released to the general public. A sampler from the 1,200 pages of recorded conversations...
...niceties as a chauffeured limousine and the three-quarters of a million-dollar advance sale for Lovers. He also has a major role in Otto Preminger's Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, plus an offer to do the movie version of Jimmy Breslin's Mafia comedy, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. He has even hired a money manager -"The same one Neil Simon has. I can't go wrong there...
Scott treats blue-chip polluters as firmly as other prosecutors do the Mafia. His list of defendants facing court action reads like a Who's Who of big business: U.S. Steel, Republic Steel, Mobil Oil, American Zinc and Monsanto, to name a few. Under his guidance, Illinois recently joined a number of other states and cities in a Federal Government suit against General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and other vehicle makers. Scott wants the Government to force the auto industry to install antismog devices on all cars and trucks dating back to 1953. In late November, charging that "the exhaust...