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...page transcript of FBI tape recordings was filed in Federal District Court in Newark, N.J. The tapes were presented by the district attorney in connection with extortion-conspiracy charges against Simone Rizzo ("Sam the Plumber") De-Cavalcante, a New Jersey Mafia leader. The FBI had bugged four mob hangouts in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, including the office of DeCavalcante's Kenilworth, N.J., plumbing-supply firm...
...your wheel, we don't have to embarrass your family.' That's what they should have done to Willie. Sure, that man never should have been disgraced like that." Added DeCavalcante: "It leaves a bad taste. We're out to protect people." At times, the mob seems to have a conscience...
...mayor of Elizabeth, N.J. DeCavalcante then asked: "Do you think we could get any city work?" Dunn (laughing): "Well, maybe." When the tapes were released, Mayor Dunn denied that the mobster had any influence over his administration and said that he had not been aware of DeCavalcante's mob connections when he accepted a $100 campaign contribution...
...states in the Deep South have adapted to the impetus of integration as successfully as South Carolina. In contrast with Alabama and Mississippi, the old Palmetto State weathered changes with relatively little trauma. Thus, it came as a shock in February 1968 when police fired into a mob of Negro college students during a racial disturbance, killing three and wounding 27. The "Orangeburg Massacre" joined Selma and Neshoba County in the litany of racial violence...
...Warning. Police witnesses said that 66 highway patrolmen were attacked by a "thundering" mob of 150 to 200 State College students near the campus. The students threw rocks, bottles and other objects and, said some cops, fired guns. Only then did the police open fire. Testified Police Captain Jesse Spell: "I am positive that we couldn't have stopped the group if we hadn't fired...