Word: mobster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going through more than two hours of processing, including a computerized check of his fingerprints against those of known fugitives, Donovan was led by detectives to a New York State Supreme Court room jammed with reporters. Arraigned before a state judge, the Secretary had some unusual company: a convicted mobster newly charged with murder, a bookie accused of being an accomplice in the killing, a Democratic state senator and seven dark-suited executives of a construction company that held more than $500 million in government contracts last year...
...when William Masselli, a soldier in the Genovese Mafia family, seized control of a small construction firm that held subcontracts on large Schiavone projects. The firm was owned by Louis Nargi, who had made the mistake of borrowing some $350,000 from Masselli and from one of the mobster's associates, Louis Cirillo, now in prison on a narcotics conviction. When Nargi failed to repay the money on time, Masselli, who had no construction experience, appropriated Nargi's equipment, hired his workers and muscled the owner aside. This was protested by Salvatore ("Sally Blind") Frascone, a soldier...
...about Masselli's Mob connections and his operations. With this information, the New York agents on Jan. 4,1979, got a court order to bug conversations and tap telephones at Masselli's meat-packing warehouse in The Bronx. Over six months this produced 892 tape recordings. The mobsters talked about Jo-Pel, the Frascone murder and Democratic officials in New York City and Albany who, they claimed, were corrupt. Donovan was mentioned in various contexts at least six times. The references to Donovan were mostly casual or vague. At one point, Mobster Masselli claimed to "get along good...
...mobster's "song" brings a wave of arrests and new details of the drug trade...
...process, Buscetta painted a picture of a 1980s-style Mafia that differs considerably from the all-in-the-family cliches of Mario Puzo's The Godfather. Today's mobster, in both Italy and the U.S., is greedier, meaner and less likely to respect the Mafia's internal code of honor than were the Mafiosi in the generation of his father's father (see box). Officials on both sides of the Atlantic consider Buscetta's break with the Mob a significant gain for law enforcement, which has thus far had only limited success in getting those...