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Hankering after a larger share of the New York City chicken market, Frank Perdue found he had little choice but to deal with mobsters. He agreed to supply birds to Dial Poultry, a distributing company owned by sons of Gambino Family Crime Boss Paul Castellano, the Mob chieftain who was gunned down in midtown Manhattan last December. Perdue knew with whom he was dealing. Later he turned to Castellano, unsuccessfully, for assistance in easing labor troubles in Virginia. "They (the Mafia) have long tentacles," the poultry producer testified last September before the President's Commission on Organized Crime. "I figured...
...sympathetic to Duvalier cronies. There was widespread outrage when it was disclosed that the council had given safe passage to Brazil to Colonel Albert Pierre, head of Baby Doc's feared political police and a man said to enjoy taking a personal role in torture. Days later, an angry mob at the Port-au-Prince airport forcibly prevented retired Duvalier Secret Police Chief Luc Desyr from boarding a flight out of the country. Meanwhile, calls for the resignation of two members of the ruling council closely associated with Baby Doc grew more insistent. Lieut. General Henri Namphy, Haiti's acting...
...Irish electrician and an Italian mother, Hill entered the crime business at age eleven, when he took a part-time job at a Brooklyn taxi stand run by the brother of a local mob boss. Under the capo's tutelage, Hill slowly learned how to run crap games, pass off counterfeit money, torch buildings for a fee and, finally, how to take over businesses and squeeze them dry. Along the crooked way, he married a nice middle-class girl from Long Island, who realized rather late that her husband was not just another up-and- coming businessman...
...federal jury yesterday found reputed New England mob underboss Gennaro J. Angiulo, two of his brothers and an associate guilty of running a racketeering operation the government said included murder conspiracies, gambling and extortion...
Prosecutors said Angiulo was underboss to the late Raymond U.S. Patriarca, who allegedly ran mob enterprises across most of New England from his Providence, R.I., headquarters...