Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's staff to be blinkered by regional prejudice and shortsightedness. We have lived through Kennedy's Boston Mafia, who calculated that all problems were rooted in politics and could be solved by a deal. A few of the staff members who came along with L.B.J. left the impression that if they were defied, the offender's tax records or FBI dossier would end up in Johnson's nighttime reading. We barely survived the season of California narrowness; around Nixon's White House, anyone who did not act, think, look and smell like a U.S.C...
...White House." Says a veteran Carter hand: "Midge puts a little fun in his day-and he needs it." Some feel that her joshing comes on a bit too strong. But, notes an associate, "a more serious woman would be too threatening to them." "Them" refers to the Georgia Mafia led by Hamilton Jordan and Powell. Midge insists that they do not close her out of the action: "The only place they don't invite me is to the men's room." She is more a conduit and an expediter than a policymaker, but sometimes...
...security that, in his view, Nixon had every right to unleash his plumbers against Daniel Ellsberg. Typically, Lasky dwells at length on the well-publicized assassination attempts against Castro while Kennedy was President, but he notes only in a phrase that the CIA's deal with two Mafia figures to rub out Castro was struck under Dwight Eisenhower...
...educational and job histories, and foists the ex-criminal on a largely unsuspecting public, far away. The reason is that the offer of such protection is one of the few ways in which Government prosecutors have been able to get frightened members of the underworld to testify against the Mafia or other well-organized criminals...
...most celebrated former witness to date is Gerald Martin Zelmanowitz, a Brooklyn-born former stock swindler whose testimony resulted in the 1970 conviction of notorious Mafia Capo Angelo ("Gyp") DeCarlo. With his family, Zelmanowitz was relocated in San Francisco, where he became Paul Maris and eventually entered the ladies' garment business. The flamboyant Maris, né Zelmanowitz, got control of a 350-employee company but soon became embroiled in messy civil litigation with the firm's New York financial backers...