Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eleven days and through half a dozen operations, during which both legs and his right arm were amputated, Bolles had fought for his life. His last whispered words−"Mafia ... Emprise...
Investigators were inclined to doubt that the Mafia had ordered Bolles' assassination. Said a Department of Justice expert on organized crime: "The gangsters are smart enough to know that getting rid of a reporter only causes more trouble than the reporter could stir up in the first place." Arizona authorities finger home-grown mobsters as more likely to commit such an act. They suggest that, despite his apparent loss of interest, Bolles may have been close to linking some big names to illegal schemes. Phoenix Police Lieutenant Jack Bentley told TIME Correspondent William F. Marmon Jr.: "Bolles had reams...
...most colorful and cooperative defendant was Grille, a former Marine sergeant in Viet Nam, who told the tribunal that he had once worked as a bodyguard for a bookmaker ("who probably pays taxes to the Mafia") before his service with the F.N.L.A. in Angola. Grillo willingly propagandized against his adopted country. "The part of American society I come from," he said, "was a monster, full of power seekers and status seekers, with lots of drugs and so on. In New York they have restaurants for dogs while people die in the streets of cold and hunger...
Police detectives in New Jersey could hardly believe their ears. A mobster hit man named Joseph Rodriguez was spilling detail after gory detail about the 1972 slaying of Mafia Boss Emmanuel ("Nello") Cammarata. Rodriguez, 32, fearful that a contract was out for his own head, hoped for police protection by implicating himself and a New Jersey father and son in the killing. Rodriguez described with professional precision how the son, deftly disguised as a jogger, took aim at Cammarata as he was walking away from a North Miami bistro and drilled him with eight rounds from a .30-cal. carbine...
...their crimes in the "holiday" period, Miami Homicide Lieut. Gary Minium, who has the Cammarata case, says he would politely thank the killer, bid him goodbye and move the case records from unsolved to solved. Meanwhile, police are holding Rodriguez in protective custody. Somebody may want him-including the Mafia...