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...Wilson did make some remarkable admissions during the interview with Beaty: he acknowledged receiving help from an alleged mobster ("It wasn't much money") and said he had used his influence to help his supporter ("We tried to help with a Government-guaranteed loan but it didn't work, and they had to get the money from the Teamsters...
...being one of our largest domestic news bureaus, in terms of the population and territory it covers (from North Dakota and Minnesota south to Oklahoma), the Midwest bureau is also the oldest. It was established in 1929 and counts as the first cover it reported a 1930 piece on Mobster Al Capone. Nowadays the big stories that occupy the bureau can range from projects involving long-term reporting, like our November 1978 cover on "The New U.S. Farmer" to this week's fast-breaking examination of "Grain As a Weapon." Such high-pressure assignments can be tough...
Christy, a respected trial lawyer who has not been active politically in recent years, was once a U.S. Attorney, and won a conviction in 1959 against Mobster Vito Genovese on a narcotics conspiracy charge. In 1954 he helped convict Frank Costello, then the so-called prime minister of the underworld, of income tax evasion. Christy promised to conduct his investigation "as expeditiously as possible." As before, the President was standing by his aide, who has denied the allega- tions. During the probe, Jordan will stay on as Carter's Chief of Staff...
...labor relations, serves as a trustee of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and counts some of New York's most prominent politicians among his friends. But because of his occupational affiliation with the city's notoriously corrupt waterfront and his 1957 marriage to the niece of Mobster Albert Anastasia, police considered Scotto to be a criminal. In 1969, the FBI went so far as to identify him as a capodecina, or lieutenant, in the Mafia family of Carlo Gambino, an allegation that the union leader vehemently denied...
...unsettled charges against him. Instead, Castro has received an appointment as U.S. ambassador to Argentina, providing welcome respite from the state's temporary political heat. U.S. District Judge Walter E. Craig, exposed by the IRE team for mysteriously reversing a jury's murder conspiracy conviction of reputed mobster Joe Bonanno's son amid rumors of influence-peddling by the Bonanno family, has received no disciplinary action of any kind. Judge Craig's sudden reversal of Bonanno's conviction aroused suspicions because it occurred fully a month after the guilty verdict was handed down, and because the judge failed to poll...