Word: snitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under a law barring criminals from making money from their crimes, Mafia snitch Sammy ("the Bull") Gravano shouldn't benefit from his work with author Peter Maas on a book about life in the Mob. Publisher HarperCollins says he was not paid, but one victim's daughter thinks that's bull. Last week Laura Garofalo sued Gravano for wrongful-death damages to the tune of $50 million...
...expertise to adjudicate the accuracy of events as related by the title figure to author Peter Maas in Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia (HarperCollins; 308 pages; $25). Like most people when you get right down to it, our protagonist--the most famous snitch in Mob history, the man whose testimony helped put "Teflon Don" John Gotti behind bars for good--sees himself as a voice of reason in a world of blowhards and sociopaths. A contract on his brother-in-law, which Gravano himself doesn't carry out but which good manners force...
Flamboyance did not breed success, however, and he had a string of convictions. Picked up yet again in a Dayton's department store the day after Thanksgiving--opening bell of the Christmas shopping season--he offered to snitch on the Dicks. Once, he said, he enjoyed such a close relationship with them that they bailed him out of jail. But now he professed embitterment at lowball paybacks. One policeman admitted, "I was a little surprised that he was giving up a source of his income." But when Thomas, dialing from memory, called the Dick residence with the offer of merchandise...
...royalties to inner-city activist groups such as Mothers Against Gang Wars, will not discuss his legal future. Court records show that his case recently reached the federal appeals system after an unusually lengthy entanglement over key testimony from a prosecution witness, now deceased, who was an active jailhouse snitch. "I simply don't believe that I am going to be executed," Williams says calmly. Death-row federal appeals commonly run a three-to-four-year course, and for Williams, whatever time remains has a clear purpose. "As much as you might want to fit in, don't join...
...what garb defines this sassy salmagundi of decades, this wham, glam, thank you ma'am era? Get one of those NEW kneelength skirts, if you're too proud to snitch one out of your mother's closet. Pull on the tights of a Varga girl--How's that for fishnet worth? A tuxedo jacket--can you say Marlene Dietrich? (I can't.) Skinny belts are in. If not you, why not your belt...