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...didn't have his gun in the shower like in the spaghetti westerns." Federal agents say that Casso, a Lucchese family underboss street-named "Gaspipe" (possibly because of his blowtorch safecracking skills), was hated within the crime family because of his penchant for ordering hits simply because a fellow mobster annoyed him. "We felt that some of the tips were coming from the Luccheses," says FBI agent Donald North, who supervises organized-crime investigations in New York City. "The family wanted him off the street." The elusive Casso was on the run from federal racketeering charges. During...
...media barons. Through a bewildering mesh of subsidiaries, he controls an $8.5 billion communications empire that includes newspapers and magazines in Britain, the U.S. and Australia, the Fox . TV network and movie studio, plus a powerful satellite that beams video programming throughout the British Isles. Like Johnny Rocco, the mobster boss in Key Largo, Murdoch is insatiably ambitious for more -- more publications, more programming, more power. Where it all will end, to cite a famous parody, knows...
...three roles have a taint of cliche: petty crook, idiot savant and mobster. What saves Orphans itself from cliche is the level of emotion that is maintained throughout. Playwright Lyle Kessler builds momentum nicely by shifting alliances and unearthing painful memories within this throwntogether family. A satisfyingly dramatic ending allows the two brothers to acknowledge the pain of their lives...
...because the Clinton Administration's Justice Department will not hound the Teamsters the way Republican Administrations did. Yet Carey's behavior, past and present, indicates that government supervision is still necessary. For example, the Teamsters leader doubts he "ever would have testified" on behalf of a reputed Lucchese family mobster named John Conti. But court records show that Carey spoke highly of Conti in a criminal case...
...infamous Mafia code of omerta, or silence, has been taking a beating lately. Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, a witness against Gambino crime boss John Gotti in a New York City courtroom, is only the latest mobster to testify on the misdeeds of his cronies in exchange for lenient treatment. Last week Mafia gunmen appeared to send a brutal message to all would-be squealers by shooting and gravely wounding the sister of federal informer Peter (Fat Pete) Chiodo...