Word: rikers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosecution's key witness, produced by Detectives Michael Geary and Larry Doherty, testified under an assumed name, William Burns. A longtime informant, Burns claimed that Odierno talked freely about the Masselli killing when the two were inmates last year at New York's Riker's Island jail. According to Burns, Odierno got mad when Masselli, sitting beside him in a parked car, rejected a deal in which the Mob would cancel loans to the Massellis if the pair would pledge silence in the Donovan investigation. Burns said that when a device that looked like a tape recorder...
Richard McMurray, who pulled time in the field last year, and who is back this year for grand larceny and possession of stolen property ("He catches the summers here," chides a buddy. "Some people go to the Hamptons") says it is a world apart from Riker's Island. "Over there it's a diseased cesspool," says McMurray. "Am I right or wrong," he yells to a dozen fellow diggers. "Right!" they holler, then go back to shoveling dirt into the gash that holds the ten coffins that Charlie Garcia has placed in their charge...
...None of us felt that it was adequate," said Riker. "We wanted something more tangible," he added...
...Riker explained that the student group established 10 committees to consider the various aspects of the tenure issue. Some groups will meet to make amendments to the proposal at hand, while others will try to persuade Tufts students to withhold their contributions to the senior class pledge drive until the administration agrees to these amendments...
Although many students will continue their efforts to protest the administration's refusal to grant tenure to Dreier, "the group is more interested in focusing its energies on the tenure process in general," said Riker...