Word: salerno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOSTON--Yesterday's election gave the Boston City Council its first progressive majority, as neophyte Rosario Salerno proved the experts wrong by winning an at-large council seat...
...incumbent Albert L. "Dapper" O'Neil as the top votegetter in the at-large race, with 47,817 votes. But supporters of rent control and stronger civil rights policies won three of the panel's four at-large seats. Christopher Ianella was re-elected with 45,472 votes. Rosario Salerno received 39,089 votes and incumbent Michael J. McCormack came in fourth with 36,326 votes. In the nine district elections every incumbent was reelected...
...race, which saw all the incumbents returning to their seats, proved surprising with the election of Salerno to the one open seat...
...ruling came in the case of Mob Boss Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno, head of the Genovese crime family, and Vincent Cafaro, a reputed captain in the same Mafia clan, who were charged last year with racketeering. A federal appeals court in New York City ruled that to deny them bail would violate constitutional guarantees of due process...
Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno may have thought the news could not get any worse, but life -- and the law -- had a surprise in store. Two weeks ago a federal jury found Salerno and seven other mobsters guilty of directing racketeering operations of the Mafia. Last week federal prosecutors in New York City unsealed a September indictment naming Salerno, 75, who heads the Genovese crime family, and three associates as co-conspirators in fixing the election of Jackie Presser as head of the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters in 1983. Whether or not Salerno is found guilty of these latest charges...