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...COMPLAINT] Mobster said the producers of Donnie Brasco portrayed him as a murderer...
...landed a Justice Department job with the Chicago arm of John Kennedy's Organized Crime Strike Force. That position led to an early brush with history: he was with his boss Robert Kennedy hours before the Attorney General's brother was shot in Dallas. Schippers' credentials--including nailing reputed mobster Sam Giancana and regularly defending unpopular clients like 1980s porn star Seka--have left him with an urge for rigor when it comes to gathering and evaluating evidence. "You can't prejudge what you don't know anything about," the father of 10 told the Los Angeles Times last month...
...slippers for 12 years in prison duds, U.S. District Court Judge Jack B. Weinstein ruled Thursday. Having already decided that the "Oddfather" had been faking his mental illness, Weinstein imposed a fine of $1.2 million and brushed off pleas from Gigante's lawyer and family (not "family") that the mobster be allowed to spend "his final days" under house detention. Gigante has a host of physical maladies; the judge allowed for his early release if he becomes terminally...
...Coffy, Foxy Brown and Sheba, Baby, Grier's characters were at war with crooked cops and white power brokers, and with the black pimps and pushers who worked for them. In Foxy Brown she has a white dealer castrated; in Sheba, Baby she impales a yacht-owning white mobster who has been intimidating black businesses. In Jackie Brown Grier's character is motivated by necessity and money lust; she's a bagman for a crook, and at one point a cop turns down her offer of a bribe. She's no longer a hero, merely a protagonist...
...coverage to be superficial at best, and I was proved wrong. However, I got a good chuckle when I read the last sentence. According to The Crimson, "Wittey" is the brother of the former UMass President and is currently wanted by federal authorities. To set the record straight: reputed mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, the brother of the current UMass President William Bulger, is currently in hiding. And, to top it all off, anyone will tell you that the former Senate President is the "Wittey"-er of the two, famous for his St. Patrick's Day comedy routine...