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Much more sinister conspiracies will be described by Government witnesses in the trial. The prosecutors will contend that the Commission approved three murders and directed loan-sharking and an extensive extortion scheme against the New York City construction industry. The killings involve the 1979 rubout of Bonanno Boss Carmine Galante and two associates. Bonanno Soldier Anthony Indelicato, 30, and alleged current Bonanno Boss Philip (Rusty) Rastelli, 68, are accused of plotting the hit, with the Commission's blessing, to prevent Galante from seizing control of the Gambino family. (Rastelli, already engaged in a separate racketeering case, will face trial later...
...night before his father William ("Billy the Butcher") Masselli, 55, was to appear before a New York grand jury investigating new charges against Donovan. The Massellis were embroiled in a financial dispute with some Mob-connected business associates, and conceivably that could have been the reason for the rubout. But some law enforcement sources thought it was more likely that Nat Masselli was killed in retaliation for cooperating with Silverman or as a warning to the elder Masselli to keep his mouth shut...
...communications within the Eastern bloc, Harvey developed a reputation for accomplishing the impossible. That proved his undoing. When the Kennedy brothers ordered a secret operation to overthrow Castro, Harvey was put in charge. He employed all the tricks of his trade, including the recruitment of Mafia figures for a rubout, but he failed. After that, it was all downhill as he drank away his frustrations and died of a heart attack...
...Harder They Come Now that reggae has made the cover of the Rolling Stone and is no longer the exclusive province of the chic, maybe this Jimmy Cliff "country hick to shantytown to bigtime to rubout" regional novel of a flick will make it beyond the cult who love it already. You can see it if you really want...
...circumstances seemed to suggest a classic Mafia rubout: the cheery last supper followed by the kiss of death from a trusted friend who had been persuaded to betray Giancana at the Mob's bidding. Though Giancana had so far told the grand jury nothing of value, the Mafia might have been worried that eventually he would. And though he was still a member of the Mafia's nationwide high "Commission," the Chicago local had some months before excluded him from all its activities, believing that the investigations he had inspired had crimped Mob business in Chicago. The gang...