Word: mafiosi
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...same, talk the same and come from the same backgrounds." At one lunch with a detective, Tompkins saw his source exchanging wary greetings ("How's the wife?") with some men at a nearby table. They were members of the Mob. Both sides are reluctant to talk: the Mafiosi fear exposure, and the police hesitate to divulge information that might cripple prosecutions. "Occasionally, a criminal thinks the reporter will be a future help and comes to us," says Barrett...
After weeks of digging, our correspondents developed some new perceptions of the Mafia. Says Tompkins: "The morality of the Mob is somewhat closer to the morality of the average American citizen than it used to be. The Mafiosi always said they were no more corrupt than anyone else, and today more and more people might agree." Barrett notes some disturbing reasons for the Mafia's increasing success: "The public is a willing victim of organized crime-buying black-market cigarettes and participating in illegal gambling. It's also difficult for people to think of some racketeer-who lives...
Special Roles. Longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, his colleagues believe, worried that undercover work would allow agents to operate largely outside the bureau's rigid discipline. Under Clarence Kelley, however, agents have posed as Mafiosi, fences, jewel thieves and swindlers...
...cheek. Asked about the ominous embrace, Quartuccio said sadly, "My friend? He had the courage to console me and clasp me after the terrible event." In the next four weeks, two brothers of the slain jeweler were gunned down in the wholesale vegetable market, two 20-year-old suspected Mafiosi were shot dead in Piazza Don Bosco, and two others disappeared...
...that kidnaped his wife. It first appeared that the kidnapers had hastily released Graziella when they realized they were not tangling with just any old Siciliano. As it turned out, however, Graziella had been forcibly rescued by some of her husband's friends. Apparently the kidnapers were younger Mafiosi, who in recent years have grown markedly disrespectful of their elders' feelings. Even the favored nephew of Giuseppe Garda ("Don Peppino"), the boss of Monreale and an associate of Quartuccio's, was kidnaped in 1974 and ransomed for $1.5 million. To Sicilian police, the wave of killings suggested...