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Besides Desist, seven other men and women were arrested, including Chief Warrant Officer Herman Conder, 35, who was recently transferred from Orléans to Fort Benning, Ga.; Frankie Dio, 48, operator of a Miami Beach nightclub and younger brother of Brooklyn Mobster Johnny Dio; and Jean Nebbia, 52, and Jean-Claude Le Franc, 50, both leading figures in France's Mafia-backed dope-smuggling fraternity...
...Momo") Giancana is a top-echelon Chicago mobster who brags that he reads Shakespeare. As the star boarder of the Cook County jail for the past seven months, he has had plenty of time to brush up on the bard-and, no doubt, to reflect on Caesar's fate and other most unkindest cuts. For whatever else he may have done in a long and lucrative career-and he has only twice gone to prison before-Sam at 57 is in durance vile for indulging his red-blooded American right to plead the Fifth Amendment...
Lippy, Unlamented Mobster. His sea of troubles washed over the hood last May, when U.S. Attorney Edward Hanrahan haled him before a grand jury and craftily granted him immunity from prosecution for any crimes to which he might admit complicity. But Giancana, the syndicate's top man in Chicago, still refused to talk. Since he was thus in no danger of incriminating himself, a federal judge ruled that Sam was in contempt of court. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that ruling, in effect consigning him to his cell for as long as he chooses...
Backed by the Supreme Court ruling, the Justice Department intends to repeat its ploy of bringing top hoods before grand juries and promising them immunity if they testify. If any feel tempted to sing, they have only to remember the late unlamented Manny Skar, a lippy mobster who was unwise enough to threaten to talk to federal authorities if the boys refused to treat him right. They promptly treated him right. Manny was getting out of his car in the basement of his North Side apartment in September when he was shot dead by a couple of the boys...
...Agents Culp and Cosby do their best to protect the life of an arrogant mobster so he can inform on a Hong Kong racket. Color...