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...that point, they’re just the Montreal Expos of the Ivy League, playing one half their schedules on the road, the other at a neutral site that might as well be Puerto Rico given the Harvard student body’s overwhelming apathy towards traveling to support its athletic squads...
We’ve had a great year. Not only have we been able to purchase more musical arrangements and recruit more musicians, we have also played on wonderful special occasions, such as the reception for Governor Sila Calderón of Puerto Rico. Preparing for these events has been hard work but very rewarding. In fact, for the governor’s reception, we arranged two songs from Puerto Rico and even had the entire audience singing...
...never been written into law before and that was designed for a sum of money that was incomparably smaller. This unusual formula mandated that each state receive a minimum of three-quarters of 1% of the total pot of money, with smaller shares going to territories like Puerto Rico. That meant that 40% of the funds had to be divided up equally among the states, regardless of size or population...
...feds do, though. They know Massino's influence is as big as his girth. For five years, they have painstakingly constructed a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) case against Massino. A windowless room in the FBI's lower-Manhattan office block is filled to the ceiling with dusty files. Here, agents from the Bonanno squad (known in the gumshoe world as C-10) pore over surveillance photos, audio recordings and bank records detailing Massino's alleged three-decade career in crime...
...Gotti's O.K., quickly rebuilt the family, set up rackets, installed new captains and established his power. And he was careful. According to the government, he closed down the social clubs (they were like flypaper to electronic bugs), stopped going to Mob funerals and weddings (enterprise evidence in a RICO case) and traveled as far as Mexico, France and Italy to meet with family captains and avoid surveillance. But Massino made one mistake. He believed that his men, including his brother-in-law, would honor omerta as scrupulously as he did. Massino was arrested...