Word: mobster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Abbott's first hit, the 1926 Broadway, which invented what have since become the cliches of backstage sagas and gangster melodramas. Pat Patton's staging abounds with campy cabaret numbers, menacing slapstick and chorus-girl goofiness, and centers on a superbly acted struggle for the heroine between a sinuous mobster (Castellanos) and a cheery hoofer (Brian Tyrrell). Broadway celebrates the gutsy traditions and restorative powers of the theater. Some 2,500 miles off Broadway, Ashland does the same, season after season...
...Mafia lawyer worked closely with reputed Colombo Family Lieutenant Gregory Scarpa, tipping off the mobster about clients of his who he thought might be cooperating with federal authorities. The penalty for informing: execution. Said Light of Scarpa: "He could have dinner with you, then when it comes time for dessert, he could kill...
...former Las Vegas Casino Owner Allen Glick explained, an offer he simply couldn't refuse. In 1978, when the Mafia was leaning on Glick to sell his interest in Vegas' sprawling Stardust casino, Kansas City Mobster Carl ("Tuffy") DeLuna was dispatched to deliver him a chilling message. "He said I might think of my life as expendable, but I might not think of my children's lives as expendable," Glick testified. "Then he read off the names and ages of my sons and said if he did not hear the announcement to sell immediately, my sons would be killed...
Whoever gunned down Castellano, investigators say, had the approval of the Commission. The cautious mobster, whose sister had been married to the late Crime Chief Carlo Gambino, was reviled by his fellow dons. They mocked him as a dainty executive who had served only one short jail sentence (for armed robbery) and had never bloodied his hands except when he trained as a butcher in his youth. They also suspected that Castellano had been the source of information for the Government's case against the Commission, through an FBI bug planted in his neoclassical Staten Island home. The leaders were...
...could last as long as six months. Defense attorneys will assail Buscetta's credibility, and are expected to charge that he is singing in an effort to avoid prosecution for Mob murders in Sicily. But to date, Buscetta has provided the most revealing glimpse into the Mafia since ( American Mobster Joseph Valachi first outlined the structure and the secret name of the Cosa Nostra...