Word: ratnoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gregory Moore '74 of Eliot House and Auburn, Ala., President; Paul J. Fornaro '74 of Claverly House and Huntington, N.Y., and William D. Ratnoff '74 of Claverly House and Huntington, N.Y., Publishers: Thomas W. Clough '73 of Mather House and Morristown, N.J., Business Manager...
...John Lindsay to take action. At that time it had little more to go on than the testimony of an honest cop named Frank Serpico. To try to get some corroboration of Serpico's tales of graft, the commission employed the services of a shadowy electronics buff, Teddy Ratnoff, who is famed for his sophisticated bugging techniques...
...year-old Dutch-born madam on the fashionable East Side of Manhattan, by telling her that he wanted to observe the judges and politicians who frequented her brothel. One fateful day, Phillips, who usually avoided dealing with prostitutes because he felt they were untrustworthy, showed up to demand money. Ratnoff made a quick check, since all sorts of people claiming to be cops were in the habit of trying to shake down Xaviera. He found that, sure enough, Phillips was a bona fide policeman. "Let's wire up on him," a commission member told Ratnoff. They had their...