Word: mafiosi
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...Erdman believes, the largest market manipulation in history, and his fact-filled fictional explanation goes like this. Some American Mafiosi, looking for a place to launder their tainted, untaxed dollars, buy a small Swiss bank. One of their first ventures is to bankroll an aristocratic Iranian who claims to have a huge silver mine. Word of this hoard leaks out to one of the world's richest men who also enjoys cornering the world's silver supply. Fearing that the Iranian's silver will flood the market and dilute the price, he makes an offer that even...
...Bronson) shuttling between New York and Los Angeles, getting blood on his own hands from time to time. The plot is infernally tangled and unrelieved by humor. There is a good, loud, nasty showdown in a subterranean garage, and an effectively brutal scene of a mass mob assassination. The Mafiosi, portrayed with almost parodistic seriousness by the likes of Martin Balsam and Alfred Ryder, hire Viet Nam veterans to do their dirty work, a bit of practicality that also passes for covert social comment. The Stone Killer concludes in sober fashion with a sermon on evil, which, we are told...
Pascal Calabrese, the former Mrs. Leonhard's new husband, was paroled soon after his testimony helped convict five Mafiosi, including a reputed underboss who got 20 years. A "contract" was reportedly out on Calabrese and his family, but the informer went directly from prison to a new residence and identity, complete with faked supporting credentials that a grateful Government had provided for him, his new wife and the three Leonhard children. That was fine for them, but "what about me?" Leonhard asks...
...knew about the marriage, which took place before Calabrese's imprisonment. He was even able to write to his ex-wife through Thomas Kennelly, a former federal attorney who had prosecuted the Mafiosi with Calabrese's testimony and is the one man who knows the family's whereabouts. But she absolutely refused to let Leonhard see his children, even at a neutral location, for fear they would give away their new identities. Leonhard went to state court to gain full custody of the children. He won after his former wife refused to take the risk of appearing...
Over the past three years, San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto's life has been a long odyssey through litigation and apparent scandal. In September 1969, a Look magazine article accused him of consorting with known Mafiosi. Then the State of Washington filed a civil suit against him in an attempt to recover $2.3 million in legal fees. On top of all that, the Federal Government indicted him on bribery charges...