Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suffered by not having any top ambassador to business. Robert Strauss got close to the job for a while, but then was sidetracked into foreign trade and Middle East policy. Businessmen consider Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal to be too wounded by sniping from the White House's Georgia Mafia to be an effective envoy. Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps is the Cabinet's best bridge between the White House and business, but, says Jack Carlson, "she heads a weak Cabinet department and does not have the clout...
...undercover snoopers sniffed Bonanno's garbage and found enough evidence to obtain an indictment against Bonanno last week for conspiracy to obstruct justice. In a basement closet they also discovered a 250-page life story, detailing Bonanno's rise to leadership of one of the foremost U.S. Mafia families. The manuscript even carried a working title: My Reign, 1939 to the Present. Investigators speculated that Bonanno intended the autobiography to be published posthumously. Considering the Cosa Nostra view of such things, it still could...
...King, 53, has run up a remarkable string of fumbles. Apparently oblivious to the advice of much of his own staff, King made a series of appointments so carelessly selected that within weeks four of them were forced to resign. One was pushed out for reputed ties with the Mafia and another for alleged conflicts of interest and mismanagement of union funds. A third was found to have been an associate of a lawyer convicted of fraud and arson. The fourth had claimed to hold degrees from two prestigious European universities but turned out to be a high school dropout...
...rest of the loot apparently went to DiPalermo and another Lucchese capo, Paul Vario, one of the regulars at the old Roberts Lounge, who supervises rackets at Kennedy Airport for the mob. By now, the FBI suspects the money probably has been effectively dispersed through a maze of Mafia business channels...
Goldman is co-author of "Dope Incorporated," a recently published book which documents a British intelligence trade conspiracy and which likens major Zionist organizations to the Mafia...