Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nineteen other victims are listed by the FBI in the case of the .22 hits. Almost all were dispatched with multiple shots to the head from a .22-cal. automatic pistol. All had in some way crossed the Mob. The most noteworthy...
...Tamara Rand, 54, San Diego businesswoman, murdered at home in November 1975 to keep her from telling what she knew about Mob-dominated gambling casinos in Las Vegas...
...Frank Chin, 48, professional wiretapper gunned down with six bullets to the head in a New York City apartment building Jan. 20. Also a potential state's witness against the Mob, Chin (TIME, Feb. 21) had been hired by DiGilio to screen the gangster's offices for police eavesdropping devices...
...been found. But both men were also linked through their mutual connection with DiGilio. The New Jersey gangster is currently appealing a prison sentence for conspiracy to rifle the files of the FBI's Newark field office -files that some officials think may have tipped off the Mob that Bompensiero and Maniaci were informants...
...identity of the hit men is a mystery to most of the Mafia too. Some Mob insiders believe they are a squad of "greenies"-gunmen lately brought illegally into this country from Sicily. Others say the .22 hits are the work of young Viet Nam War vets. Still other sources pin the killings on two seasoned triggermen of New York Drug King Carmine Galante. Whoever they are, they have brought the silenced .22 loud notoriety...