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Hard to argue that civilization is in tip-top shape, and Elmore Leonard isn't in the mood to try. In Pronto (Delacorte; 265 pages) it's the Mob that has gone mushy. Harry Arno, a South Florida bookie, has reached what would be retirement age if you retired from the kind of business associations he has made, which you don't. But he does. He has been skimming the Mob's share of the take for years, and he has used the boodle to buy a villa in Rapallo, Italy, where he was stationed during World...
Anyway, Arno is pursued ineptly by the Florida Mob and its bumbling parent organization in Italy, and also by his mistress Joyce and a U.S. marshal named Raylan Givens. Arno, who's 66, is thinking of trading in Joyce, who's about 40, for a younger tootsie, although maybe not; she still looks pretty good, and he hasn't decided. Straight-shooting Raylan's determined to find Arno, save Joyce from peril and foil the evildoers, and by page 256, it all works out. Always has in Leonard's quirky tales; always will...
Today 295 is run by two court-appointed trustees, including Michael Moroney, a labor-racketeering investigator since the 1970s. Even so, Carey earlier this year took a detour around the Teamsters' constitution by intervening in a dispute against Local 295 on behalf of its Mobbed-up sister Local 851. The Lucchese clan has long dominated 851, as Moroney reminded Carey in a stinging letter last February. Yet Carey told the Detroit News in June he had no knowledge of Mob influence at 851. Two months later, the local's leaders were indicted for Mafia-linked extortion...
...Carey's memory failing -- or is he a friend of the Mob? If his family ties turn out to be real and continuing, it will be a crushing blow for a faltering union that believed it was finally getting a breath of fresh...
Does crusading union president Ron Carey have mob ties...