Word: mobster
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...state's governor, Raul Castro, although ostensibly for other reasons, resigned after the IRE team uncovered consistent misbehavior on Castro's part--including charges of using state police guards as servants, pressuring state officials to give building contracts to political cronies, and befriending and accepting campaign contributions from reputed mobsters and the millionaire liquor dealer suspected ot engineering Bolles's murder. In contrast, the state's new governor, 40-year-old Bruce Babbitt, is by almost all accounts serious about putting a stop to Arizona crime, and the recent prosecution of the state's two most notorious land fraud artists...
...extraordinary nocturnal sentry duty by Galante's bodyguards demonstrates both the Mafia's remarkable influence inside U.S. prisons and the fact that there is no rest for a mobster who strives to become godfather and fails. Sooner or later a rival will try to put him out of the running, permanently...
...wily Dellacroce, 63, paid his respects to Gambino's memory by letting the late capo's brother-in-law, Paul Castellano, remain titular head of the family, while Dellacroce was elevated to the Mafia's ruling commission last summer. He emerged as the most powerful U.S. mobster...
...fact told Cuban Exile Leader José Aleman during a 1963 conversation about Kennedy that "he's going to be hit." This was Aleman's story when questioned by committee investigators in March 1977, and it seemed to lend credence to a theory that mobsters had plotted to kill J.F.K. because of his Administration's crackdown on organized crime. But Aleman, admitting that he was afraid of Trafficante's wrath, remembered differently last week. The mobster, he testified, probably meant only that Kennedy would be hit by Republican votes in 1964, not bullets...
...mobster's testimony provided a melodramatic ending to the committee's four weeks of hearings. In more than 100 hours of testimony from 59 witnesses, the committee re-examined the known facts about the assassination, convincingly shot holes in the major conspiracy theories and turned up no solid evidence to challenge the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy...