Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Henke, and Henke's true political allegiance, become matters of increasingly risky perplexity. A hit man (nicely played by Richard Romanus) shows up from Detroit and makes the first of many at tempts on Shaver's life. Before things settle down, the KGB, the CIA and the Mafia all get involved, and all, for their respective reasons, get sore at Shaver. Even his girl friend (Cristina Raines) grows testy. Shaver deals with all the vexations as best he can, with bluff and a little muscle, looking the while as if he just wants to get away on vacation...
...younger days, Gerardo Catena was convicted of eight felonies, ranging from hijacking to bribing a federal juror, but those inconveniences did not slow his steady rise through the Mafia hierarchy. By the late 1960s he was boss of 600 button men in northern New Jersey and heavily involved in gambling and loan-sharking. Thus it was only logical for the state commission of investigation to summon him in 1970 for questioning about organized-crime activities. Granted immunity from prosecution for his answers, Catena still refused to talk, so a superior court sent him to jail. Under civil contempt procedures common...
...disappearance, Hoffa was scheduled to have lunch with two Mafiosi: Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, unofficial boss of New Jersey's Teamsters, and Detroit's Anthony ("Tony Jack") Giacalone. Investigators believe that on the agenda was a $3 million loan from the fund that the Mafia was trying to arrange for a "recreation center" in Detroit. On some previous loans from the fund, Mob figures had got a 10% kickback from the borrowers; on the recreation-center loan, they reportedly were demanding an additional 10% from the union officials...
There seems little chance that the unsavory publicity about Mafia connections likely to be brought to light by Hoffa's disappearance will deflect the union from its course very much. The lurid headlines are an embarrassment, certainly. The Teamsters lately have sought respectability through a magazine and billboard advertising campaign that proclaims: TEAMSTERS-A PART OF THE AMERICAN LIFE...
...everything but his costly cotton undershorts; his old friend Thaxter, an eccentric literary conman with expensive tastes, has squandered thousands of Citrine's dollars given to start an intellectual quarterly. In addition, Citrine's silver-gray Mercedes has been vandalized by a petty hood, a Mafia buffo character named Ronald Cantabile, to whom Citrine unwittingly gave a bad check in payment for a minor gambling debt...