Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first they called it Operation Star Quest. But when a federal grand jury last week indicted alleged Mob Boss Carmine ("the Snake") Persico, 51, and ten other members of the Colombo clan, one of New York's five major Mafia families, federal agents triumphantly renamed their probe Star Struck. Those involved were said to control seven union locals in New York City's restaurant, trucking and construction businesses, extorting large payments from restaurateurs and contractors...
...help straighten out the inept clan. Franzese was not named in the indictment. Rudolph Giuliani, the U.S. Attorney in New York, told TIME, "We have a lot more to do." Indeed, Washington officials said an organized-crime strike force in Brooklyn, which handled most of the Colombo probe, is preparing cases against two much more powerful New York crime families, the Gambinos and the Luccheses...
...sulfur and sugar. But the FBI, apparently tipped off by a group of Texas oil traders, had begun looking into Rich's dealings and was soon joined by agents of the Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service and Customs Service. Rich's often inept efforts to stonewall the probe took on a burlesque quality. His company refused to turn over documents to a grand jury, provoking $50,000-a-day contempt-of-court fines that messengers dutifully delivered to court each week. The payments eventually totaled $21 million...
...records of Jo-Pel and Schiavone were subpoenaed by the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, Republican Robert B. Fiske Jr., with FBI cooperation, but this probe produced no legal action. Fiske's successor, Democrat John S. Martin Jr., obtained guilty pleas from Masselli and Orlando for hijacking and conspiring to manufacture synthetic cocaine. After Ronald Reagan won the 1980 election and announced in December that he wanted Donovan as his Labor Secretary, FBI officials in both New York and Washington seemed to lose interest in the Schiavone evidence...
...probe that culminated in last week's roundup originated nearly a decade ago when the Federal Bureau of Investigation began looking into the activities of the New York Mafia "family" of Joseph Bonanno. The inquiry shed light on a faction headed by Salvatore Catalano, a Queens, N.Y., baker and entrepreneur who seemed to be doing more than selling pizza at his Al Dente pizza parlor. It gathered momentum when investigators obtained evidence that couriers for Catalano's group were transferring enormous amounts of cash through investment houses and banks in New York, Italy and Switzerland...