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...SENTENCED. MIJAILO MIJAILOVIC, 25, for the fatal stabbing in a shopping mall of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh; to life in prison; in Stockholm. After confessing in January, Mijailovic told police that voices in his head, among them Jesus Christ's, commanded him to kill the popular politician, but a court ruled he was mentally fit to be sentenced. Insisting that the death was not politically motivated, he testified at his trial two months ago: "I saw Anna Lindh, then the voices came...
...Luciano in 1931. It was Massino who revived the Bonannos after the humiliation of the Donnie Brasco caper, in which FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone infiltrated the gang and spent five years posing as a hoodlum named Brasco and, with his court testimony, helped send 200 Mob men to prison. Already reeling from the Pizza Connection prosecutions (after a bust that exposed a giant heroin distribution racket run from pizza parlors), the Bonannos were thrown off the Five Families commission and left for dead. With brains and muscle, Massino restored the clan to its old strength. And "Big Joey...
...theater he borrowed from Gigante, whose cronies used to tap their chin to signify their boss. The Bonannos' Old-World code of discipline was such that until recently not a single "made guy" (ranking gang member) had ever cooperated with law enforcers. As the other bosses bunked down in prison, that helped the Bonannos become, in the words of one of the FBI's organized-crime agents, "the most powerful family" in New York--and ensured that Massino was as unknown to the public as his rival bosses were notorious. By the late '90s the Bonannos' street cred had quietly...
...mistress at lakeside resorts, court records say. After several years, he turned himself in and twice stood trial, in '86 and '87. At the first one, he was found guilty of labor racketeering, along with then boss Rastelli and Teamsters from Local 814, and spent five years in prison. It was while he was there, when Rastelli died of natural causes in '91, that he was promoted to boss of the Bonannos...
After a stint in prison and a three-week hiatus, Dan Mathews, vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) returned to Harvard Square yesterday, only this time fully clothed...