Word: mobster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blood on the picture of a saint. The picture was then set afire. The act meant that "if I should betray the organization, my flesh would burn like this saint," Tommaso Buscetta told fascinated spectators in a jammed federal courtroom in New York City last week. The stocky mobster then coolly proceeded to betray his blood brothers in a most dramatic way, fingering seven of the 22 defendants in the courtroom as Mafia members involved in a conspiracy to import and sell $1.6 million worth of heroin...
...Retired Mobster Joe Bonanno had no qualms about discussing his life as "a man of honor" in his 1983 autobiography of that name. But when U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani wanted Bonanno to talk about eleven alleged mobsters who rule New York City's crime families, the self-confessed capo clammed up. Bonanno, 80, who now lives in Tucson, suffers from high blood pressure and a narrowing of the coronary arteries. He claimed that the stress of testifying against his old associates could kill...
...skeptical Federal District Judge Richard Owen traveled from New York to Tucson last week to weigh Bonanno's claim in an improvised courtroom next to St. Mary's Hospital and Health Center. The old mobster stated that his doctor "recommended me not to testify." He complained of chest pains and refused to answer questions. Government medical experts said that Bonanno was healthier than he claimed. The judge agreed, calling Bonanno's performance "an arrogant flouting of the duty to give testimony." Owen found Bonanno in contempt of court and ordered him to prison until he changed his mind, or until...
Forced to unravel the web mobster, cultists, and horseracing in which he finds himself, Theron follows the trail to a bordello in New Hampshire and the dark offices of head Boston mobster Vincent Ciullo...
...plot gets rolling in a subtle fashion with the gory massacre of some Colombian drug dealers, a beautifully filmed sequence complete with coke, blood and dollar bills flying. When the Colombians get their revenge by kidnapping Diana Luna (Molly Hagan), the daughter of Italian mobster Tony Luna (Mike Genovese), Norris singlehandedly comes to the rescue...