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...travel agencies in the New York area, he held investments in two federally insured housing projects in Detroit and Cleveland. The use of respectable fronts and legitimate businesses is a time-honored Mafia ploy, and according to police, Barnes learned that trick and many others from the late Brooklyn mobster "Crazy Joey" Gallo when they were in prison together in 1965. (Barnes served five years on a narcotics conviction, which was overturned on appeal...
...Osaka, the police and public are cooperating in the same strategy of calculated humiliation. Local activists have picketed known gang headquarters. Landlords have tried to evict mobster tenants. For their part, the police have been summoning gang leaders to appear at the police station for tongue-lashings in an effort to shame them into giving up crime. "We are trying to change the waters the gangsters swim in," said a police officer. Perhaps the most devastating weapon the communities wield against the yakuza is social ostracism. Parents tell their children not to play with those of the gangsters; shop owners...
...story behind the Calderazzo killing was apparently more complicated. Investigators say that it involved an old associate of Ullo's from his New York City days: Manhattan Mobster Vincent ("Chin") Gigante, a power in the Mob family once headed by Vito Genovese. Calderazzo worked in Gigante's gambling network. Following a 1976 FBI raid on his operation, Gigante suspected he had been betrayed by Calderazzo and ordered him to Los Angeles-ostensibly for his own protection...
...Some mobster money ends up in the pockets of the high-priced lawyers who keep them out of jail. Carlo Gambino's cousin Joseph Gambino...
...from his modest, $55,000 stucco house, also watches over the Chicago Mob's investments in Las Vegas casinos and controls loansharking, narcotics and prostitution along the Strip. Says a Justice Department official: "Spilotro has become the most powerful man in Las Vegas, next to Moe Dalitz [a legendary mobster on the Strip]. Spilotro takes a cut of all illegal activities of any consequence." He spends much of his time traveling by private jet on Mob business in California, where he has helped Fratianno and Rizzitello guide new Mob investments in narcotics trafficking, bookmaking, loan-sharking and extortion from legitimate...