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...Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" from the script-a shrewd piece of bargaining, since "Mafia" had never appeared in the script anyway and "Cosa Nostra" had been used only once. Also, he hired some people associated with the league, including a Las Vegas nightclub M.C., Gianni Russo, who got the role of the Godfather's treacherous son-in-law Carlo. Russo, a friend of Colombo's son Anthony, provided the cast with tips on how Mafiosi would act. He cheerfully observes that the Mob is "like the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts. Everyone should have an organization...
...word Mafia isn't used much any more. And I never heard the term Cosa Nostra until Joe Valachi* used it. But there is one big gang that runs organized crime in this country. It has many different names-the Organization, the Syndicate. We generally call it the Mob. New young people who become members call it the Outfit...
...powerful Commission, which dominated Mob affairs across the country for decades, has likewise fallen into disarray. After the disastrous Apalachin meeting in 1957, where 58 mobsters were arrested, the Commission abandoned full-scale gatherings. For a while, its members met in twos and threes to conduct Cosa Nostra business?sometimes on Sunday morning when, they assumed, FBI agents would be in church. When these arrangements failed, the dons were left to communicate with one another from outdoor phone booths?a far cry from the grand council meetings in luxury hotels. The vacuum in leadership and logistical planning opened...
...after bloody battles to curb the power of a single leader. Gambino's assertion of leadership?quite apart from the Colombo family's need for revenge?makes it possible that a full-scale battle may erupt. Beyond doubt, the attempt to murder Joe Colombo has profoundly affected the Cosa Nostra. Gallo blocked off the street where he lives the night after the attack, and that same night, only twelve hours after Jerome Johnson fired three bullets into Colombo, business in a small Italian restaurant outside New York City began to pick up. A group of well-dressed men sat around...
...Anastasia had settled back comfortably in a barber chair in Manhattan's Park-Sheraton Hotel, his bodyguard conveniently excused himself. Two men walked in quickly, drew pistols and turned Anastasia and the shop into a blood-spattered nightmare. It was the last murder of a major Cosa Nostra leader...