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...collective-bargaining demands, the firms were having with a United Electrical Workers local. Ahead of Dio loomed further trials on charges of 1) extorting $11,500 from two New York City merchants,, 2) evading federal income taxes, and 3) plotting the 1956 acid-blinding of Manhattan Labor Columnist Victor Riesel...
...members), shook down businessmen with threats of "labor violence" and picketing. So powerful grew "Mr. Dee" that two months ago, when U.S. attorneys attempted to hale him before a trial jury as the mastermind behind the acid-blinding (TIME, April 16, 1956 et ante) of Labor Columnist Victor Riesel, two key underworld Government witnesses took added five-year sentences for contempt rather than sing against Dio on the witness stand, and Johnny Dio's trial had to be postponed...
...Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). No License to Kill, with Hume Cronyn, Eileen Heckart and blinded Columnist Victor Riesel as narrator...
After deliberating for only 88 minutes, a Manhattan jury last week convicted three minor figures in the acid blinding of Labor Columnist Victor Riesel (TIME, Sept. 10 et ante). Two were sentenced to five years in federal prison, the other to two years. Scheduled for trial this week: Mob Chief Johnny Dio (real name: Dioguardi), 42, charged with plotting the attack to keep Riesel from testifying in a grand-jury investigation of trucking-and garment-industry rackets...
...Victor Riesel: symbol of courage, devoid of fear...