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There is increasing doubt that Johnson was in the service of Brooklyn Mobster Joe Gallo, as was initially theorized. There is no evidence to link Johnson with the black gangsters recruited by Gallo. Moreover, there is a growing rumor that the contract for the Colombo "hit" was let by Carlo Gambino, the most powerful of the New York Mafiosi; and that Carmine ("Snakes") Persico, a Colombo caporegime, played a key role in carrying out the attempt...
...COLOMBO'S civic career is a recent development. Until he organized the Italian-American Civil Rights League, he was a much more private person, intent on following his father's profession. Anthony Colombo was a successful Brooklyn mobster until he was garroted one night in 1938 in the back seat of his car along with his girl friend. The killing forced young Joe to quit high school and go to work in a printing plant to support his mother and younger sister. He enlisted in the Coast Guard in World War II, but he got into so much trouble that...
McHale is somewhat more indulgent, when lampooning the fear and prosperous conventionality of middle age. Even Arthur, the only wholly human member of his family, has "two Cadillacs, two homes and safe money in Swiss banks." His friend, the mobster Serafina, has a yacht as well. Serafina is a fine parody of the Godfather. Trailed ceaselessly by the feds, he cheerfully gives their car a push when the batteries go dead. When he reads of the violence in Chicago at the Democratic Convention, he personally guards Philadelphia's Liberty Bell on the theory that no judge is going...
...mangy hound dog is full of fleas." Meanwhile the governing board of the American Bar Association, after a special meeting in Chicago, expressed reservations about parts of a separate bill aimed at subduing the organized underworld. Originally devised by another Democrat, Arkansas's John McClellan, the mobster measure was expanded with the help of Justice Department staffers and whisked through the Senate in January. Legal experts have now detected a startling number of sleeper clauses. Their objections have provoked close scrutiny from the House Judiciary Committee...
McClellan's anti-mobster bill is advertised as an attempt to deal with the frustrations that police and prosecutors meet in dealing with organized racketeers. Recent Supreme Court decisions have knocked down such heavyhanded police practices as raids without search warrants, third-degree interrogations and indiscriminate wiretaps. Even evidence developed as a result of leads from illegal techniques is not admissible in a trial. If a defendant thinks the Government has used forbidden tactics in developing its case against him, he can ask to see all the raw material in order to establish his right to have it thrown...