Word: mobsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...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...
...Hoffa's. Brill reports that also in the car were two of the three musclemen from Tony Pro's New Jersey Teamsters ranks assigned to carry out the killing: Gabriel Briguglio, 36, his brother Salvatore, 47, and Thomas Andretta, 38. Brill, however, does not mention a fourth mobster regarded by the FBI as a prime suspect in the slaying, Thomas Principe...
...union's membership swells to several million under his leadership. Always attuned to the needs of the rank-and-file, Stallone is also aware of the importance of "push," and consequently falls into bad company: he inadvertently sells his soul to the Mafia (in the guise of mobster Babe Milano, played in sleazy enough fashion by Tony Lo Bianco), and watches--along with millions of Americans who saw him do so well against Apollo Creed--as his self-created American dream grows, and then collapses in disarray, about...