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When Chicago Mobster Sam Giancana was executed gangland-style in his Oak Park, Ill., home in 1975, FBI agents were gleeful. At last they had a chance to search the house that Giancana used as his command post for Mafia operations. But when they swung open the front door, the investigators were astonished. Instead of the expected depot of pistols and machine guns, they found a cache ofobjets d'art and religious mementos, including a photograph of Giancana having a private audience with Pope Pius XII. Later, when this trove was sold at auction, Giancana's daughter Antoinette...
...scope of the gang's drug operation began to be revealed only last fall. The O.S.I.T., investigating two 1977 mobster-style murders, persuaded four Angels to "roll over" and inform on the club in court. According to one informant, former Angel Hitman James ("Brett") Eaton, now a protected federal witness living under a new identity, the Angels cornered the methamphetamine market by cornering the chemists. In taped interviews with the O.S.I.T., made available to TIME, Eaton stated, "They find someone already making speed and say, 'O.K., now you make it for us.' " Typically, a Hell...
...summer of 1982 just as the prosecutor's investigations were winding up. Last Wednesday the Mafia gunman in one of those murders was convicted in New York City: according to Bronx Assistant District Attorney Martin Fisher, Phil Buono killed Informer Nat Masselli, the son of a mobster, in order "to help and protect the Schiavone Construction Co. and Raymond Donovan...
...memorable performances. Sagawa and Alexander, clowas throughout the show, pull out all the stops in the title song as they bemoan the fate of their boss and any other guy who falls for a doll. Eastman's bellows of "Let's shoot crap!" are worthy of the evilest mobster, and the dance numbers are energetic and enthusiastic...
...Capone, the Caesar of the Chicago gangland, was never convicted of murder, robbery, kidnaping, extortion or even bootlegging. But Treasury agents nailed him for evading payment of $1.2 million in taxes from 1924 to 1929, and the mobster was sentenced to eleven years in federal prison in Atlanta...