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...classic case of how the Mob infiltrated the Brotherhood. This local controls the labor at roughly 85% of the city's 900 parking facilities and comprises 4,600 workers, most of them black or Hispanic. After a 20-year reign as the group's president, Cirino (Speed) Salerno was ousted last September by the Teamsters' court-appointed administrator. Salerno, 77, who has been convicted of extortion in the past, is not a "made" Mafia member. But he allegedly diverted union money to his brother Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno, a former front man of the Genovese clan, who is serving...
...garage business was a bonanza for the wise guys. The garage owners allegedly made payoffs to the Mob in exchange for being allowed to cheat employees out of as much as $70 million in lost wages and benefits. Cirino Salerno made weekly deliveries of cash skimmed from the local to his brother's East Harlem headquarters, according to a former top Genovese soldier, Vincent (Fish) Cafaro. In a 1987 affidavit, Cafaro, now a government witness, claimed that "Speed" had the garage industry "locked up through 'sweetheart contracts' with the owners . . . If someone buys or builds a garage or parking...
Eugene Bennett, 65, one of the city's few black Teamster leaders, gained control of the local last autumn after a power struggle with Salerno's distant cousin Frank and son Robert, a retired New York City cop. Bennett has investigated and dismantled the union's skimming arrangement, which operated through most of the 1980s. While employers were obligated to make payments on behalf of employees to the local's health and pension plans, an estimated 1,600 parking-lot attendants were kept out of the union and its funds, Bennett says. The workers, most of them illegal aliens from...
...commission last night reported that the remaining six spots on the November ballot were by proressive Rosaria Salerno, a one-term incumbent from Fenway with 15.4 percent; Michael McCormack, fourterm incumbent from the West End with 14.8 percent, and three-term School Committee member John Nucci, with 11.6 percent...
Anne- Sophie Mutter and Viktoria Mullova head a wave of female performers that also includes Kyung- Wha Chung, Nadja Salerno- Sonnenberg and Midori. They are ebullient and intense, fiery and formidable; when they play, the intoxicating perfume of the theater fills the air. "Music is a form of love, the highest form of love," says Mutter. "It is passion...