Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called Bargain Auto Parts Inc. Then, standing on a box inside the two-room trailer, Gold stripped away a section of ceiling insulation and tenderly removed a tiny microphone and a transmitter slightly larger than a pack of cigarettes. The bugging device, Gold explained, had been eavesdropping on the Mafia inner sanctum for six months, dutifully recording what his aides described as "a crime story bigger than Appalachin and the Valachi papers combined...
...that no subpoena was served on Carlo Gambino, the ailing "boss of bosses." Nonetheless, the investigation affords an intriguing look at the workings of both cops and capos and if Gold is right could result in a stunning series of indictments that would attack New York's embattled Mafia clans on yet another front...
...investigation began in December when police, disguised as Christmas-tree salesmen, set up shop across the street from a Brooklyn bar frequented by mobsters. The surveillance led police to the junkyard trailer where Paul Vario, a capo in the Mafia family of Carmine Tramunti, either met or conferred on three phones with, according to Gold, "all the top members of organized crime." Gold, alluding to an "imaginative and innovative approach," is not saying precisely how the bugging device was planted, but it is known that an FBI informer who had unchallenged access to the trailer played a crucial role...
Promising indictments "within ten days," Gold said that a Brooklyn grand jury would be given evidence involving "nearly 200" legitimate businesses that have been infiltrated or taken over by the Mob. Subpoenas were served on Mafia Chieftain Tramunti, the compromise successor to the leadership of the once powerful family run by the late Thomas Luchese, and at least three local officials...
...Marxist. Francesco Rosi, in 1962. He was one of the first of his countrymen to reveal the linkages of local corruption in any hardnosed way, while debunking Sicilian outlaw mythology. Rosi shows what really happened to the legendary Guihano after World War II, when he was paid by the Mafia to attack growing native Communism, and then was himself assassinated. Rosi was not interested in the emotional dynamics of the situation, only in the political case at hand, making his film subtly innovative. He stuck to the twisting logic of his subject matter, reconstructing actual battles and trials, filming...