Word: rico
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trip was given courtesy of the Puerto Rico, U.S.A. Foundation and a lobbying Washington law firm...
...District of New York, who has been leading the major anti-Mafia crusade and who takes personal affront at the damage done by the Mob to the image of his fellow law-abiding Italian Americans. Declares G. Robert Blakey, a Notre Dame Law School professor who drafted the 1970 RICO law now being used so effectively against organized crime: "It's the twilight of the Mob. It's not dark yet for them, but the sun is going down." Insists John L. Hogan, chief of the FBI's New York office: "We are out to demolish a multiheaded monster...
Reading that book, A Man of Honor, helped Giuliani realize that the little understood 1970 RICO act could be used against the Mob. "Bonanno has an entire section devoted to the Commission," Giuliani recalled. "It seemed to me that if he could write about it, we could prosecute...
...increasing use of wiretaps and tapes, says another investigator, is "like opening a Pandora's box of the Mafia's top secrets and letting them all hang out in the open." Both top Mafia trials will depend heavily on tapes as evidence, as have numerous RICO cases around the country. The FBI's bugging has increased sharply, from just 90 court-approved requests in 1982 to more than 150 in each of the past two years. The various investigating agencies, including state and local police, have found novel places to hide their bugs: in a Perrier bottle, a stuffed...
Meanwhile, U.S. military planners began going through the motions of considering other possible training sites. Fort Benning, Ga., was mentioned. So was, to the horror of some officials at State, politically volatile Puerto Rico. But most experts suspected that in the end, as part of a "covert" anti-Sandinista campaign that has been wide open all along, Honduras would agree to maintain the "covert" contra training camps while officially denying their existence. One Honduran official seemed resigned to as much when he likened dealing with the U.S. to "being in bed with an elephant: whatever movement there is, no matter...