Word: telvi
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...agents, had been planned last Easter when Dio called a meeting in a lower Manhattan candy store, announced that he needed someone to toss some acid. Storekeeper Gondolfo Miranti relayed the request to Bakeryman Domenico Bando, who sought out Joseph Carlino. Carlino dredged up Hungry Hoodlum Abraham Telvi to carry out the attack. Telvi was given a bottle of sulphuric acid, stationed on a Manhattan side street and told to await a Mr. Marshall, whose wife wanted him burned because he was unfaithful. Go Between Miranti shadowed Riesel to Lindy's Restaurant, spotted him for Telvi when the columnist...
...work, said the FBI, Telvi was paid $500 and hustled out of town; he had burned his own face as well as Riesel...
When he discovered the identity of Mr. Marshall, Telvi came back and demanded $50,000. He was promised an additional payment, and two weeks later he got it: he was shot in the back of the head and dumped into an East Side gutter...
...week arrested Finger Man Miranti and Contractor Carlino, charged them with conspiring to obstruct justice by trying to prevent Columnist Riesel's appearance before a Federal Grand Jury investigating labor rackets. Agents also locked up three material witnesses who knew enough to be "hot" too. To Columnist Riesel, Telvi and his confederates were "complete and absolute strangers." But he was sure that their trail would lead to labor racketeers. "They picked on me," he told reporters, "because they wanted to silence the papers...
...week's end the FBI was still on the trail of its real quarry−the man or men who hired Telvi and paid him off twice...