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...informant for the FBI, testified at hearings of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime about links between organized crime and labor unions, including one headed by a major supporter of Bill Clinton's. They may have different words for him now that Fino has linked another name to the mob--Jack Kemp...
...staff members about a Buffalo, New York, hotel developer, James Cosentino, who was a Kemp friend and contributor. (Documents from the Federal Election Commission show that Cosentino and his family gave $6,300 to Kemp's campaign in the mid-'80s.) According to Fino, Cosentino was tied to the mob--a charge he denies. In the 1980s, when Kemp was a Buffalo Congressman, Cosentino allegedly got at least $5 million in loans for a hotel construction project from a pension fund of the Buffalo local of the Laborers' International Union of North America, a union that recently signed a consent...
According to Fino, Kemp once asked him point blank whether Cosentino was connected to the mob (Fino says he told him yes), but Fino is hazy about when this exchange took place. Alixe Glen, Kemp's spokeswoman, calls the allegations "unfounded" and "politically motivated." Representative John Conyers of Michigan, the Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, has formally requested that the committee bring Fino back to Washington for questioning...
...year older and some things never change. The other day, the lure of e-mail compelled me to trek from Mather to the Science Center. Not realizing that the Freshman Mixer had been moved indoors because of the rain, I was soon stuck in a mob of eagerly socializng first-years doing the Electric Slide. Part of me wanted to get out of there as soon as possible, but part of me remembered how fun all this had been. And that's when I realized exactly what sophomore meant...
...neatly organized system at the GOP convention in San Diego, though, which fed the throngs smoothly to the metal detectors, the Chicago security team has no idea how to organize the lines leading to the gates. On Monday night, as thousands of people pressed forward in an agitated mob, impatient delegates and Democratic staff began jumping the line and forcing their way into an already claustrophic mass. Senior White House aide George Stephanopoulos burst out laughing when, making his way through the chaos, he spotted a fuming magazine photographer being frisked by Secret Security at the front door. Said...