Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barnes ran a highly diversified operation. In addition to gas stations and travel agencies in the New York area, he held investments in two federally insured housing projects in Detroit and Cleveland. The use of respectable fronts and legitimate businesses is a time-honored Mafia ploy, and according to police, Barnes learned that trick and many others from the late Brooklyn mobster "Crazy Joey" Gallo when they were in prison together in 1965. (Barnes served five years on a narcotics conviction, which was overturned on appeal...
Investigating whether organized crime has moved into juvenile prostitution, the New York State select legislative committee on crime last week heard testimony from young prostitutes and concerned police and social welfare officials. The committee found that the Mafia has begun moving back into prostitution, which it had largely abandoned in the 1930s in favor of more lucrative drug and loan-sharking rackets. Mobsters of the Genovese Mafia family are alleged to control many of the topless and bottomless bars, where youthful dancers are enticed into prostitution. The racketeers are also believed to own quick-turnover hotels where prostitutes work...
...York City Corrections Department did not classify the TV showing of The Godfather as a special event, but it turned into one. Just as the first segment of the four-part saga of the Corleone Mafia family began to get violent, the clock struck 10 p.m., lockup time in the city's jails. At the Queens House of Detention, 43 inmates protested and refused to go back into their cells, and extra guards had to be called to herd them...
Like the Mounties, the Mafia always seems to get its man. Unlike Canada's national police, however, organized crime always has murder on its mind. FBI and other Justice Department officials are now contemplating the disturbing fact that no protection-not even the supposed secrecy of grand jury proceedings-is a barrier to Mob hit men when they set out to protect omertà, the curtain of silence around Mafia affairs...
...time, Gallina was a key witness before a Newark grand jury, testifying, among other things, on Mafia executions by a special hit squad armed with silencer-equipped .22-cal. automatic pistols. The ".22-cal. hitters" have claimed at least 20 victims in the past two years, including six FBI informants and potential witnesses. Though Attorney Gallina, who had defended major crime figures-notably, members of the East Coast Genovese Mafia family-was killed by .38-cal. bullets, he was undoubtedly the 21st victim. Federal officials blame his slaying on a leak from the grand jury; leaks from secret Government files...