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...Corse. "When the Mafioso is spilling his guts," says one U.S. intelligence official, "the Corsican is still silent-refusing even to give you his name." In the early 1960s, for instance, a Union Corse member who called himself Antoine Rinieri was arrested in New York with a suspected narcotics payoff of $247,000 in cash. In the Corsican tradition, he refused to give his real name or explain what he was doing with the money. His silence caused him to be sent to jail for six months for contempt of court. At the end of his term, the U.S. deported...
...going to send you to the chair." On the eighth day, she broke, crying, her body suddenly racked with sobs, sweating profusely. "And she made a good confession," Sprague says. After that, it was easy to get Huddleston to confess that he was the conduit for a payoff from union officials. Sprague is still sniffing along the trail that he is sure leads upward into the U.M.W. hierarchy...
...Nixon and not George McGovern. What concerns me is that I think the Democrats are exploiting this more than is socially appropriate. When candidates throw around big tax packages, they are really talking about the redistribution of income rather than tax reform. But there would be a lot more payoff for everybody in pulling together to get a solid, noninflationary expansion of the economy...
...also important to recognize that the present income tax structure is progressive, that it does have some favorable redistributive effects. I think that some of our tax preferences for the rich are an unmitigated outrage. But the payoff for eliminating them is more virtue than revenue. Of course, virtue is important. The real reason for wanting to get rid of these horrendous outrages is not to save money for the guy in the $15,000 income bracket, but rather to come to him and say, "You ought to pay your share. Everybody else is paying his share." It is really...
...Washington PayOff, Winfer-Berger...