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...nicknamed "Lillo" and "The Cigar," possesses truly impressive criminal credentials. He has spent almost half his life in prison on charges ranging from gambling, narcotics trafficking and bootlegging to extortion, assault and homicide. Galante first gained respect within the Mafia for his suspected involvement in the murder of Carlo Tresca, an Italian-American newspaper editor and enemy of Benito Mussolini; police believed that Tresca was knocked off at the urging of il Duce himself...
...Carlo Tresca, of whom it was said that the first word he learned in English was "guilty." In 1937 she dismayed her Socialist friends by joining the Communist Party, and her activity in strikes from coast to coast landed her in jail a dozen times. She began her longest prison term in 1955 when she was convicted with other U.S. Communist leaders un der the Smith Act on the charge of conspiring to overthrow the government and spent 28 months at the Women's Federal Reformatory at Alderson, W. Va. By then, Elizabeth was no longer a slim...
...right thumb in the Spanish Civil War, was a longtime hatchet man for Stalin's secret police. In Mexico in 1940 he had a hand in the organizational work behind the assassination of Leon Trotsky, and, later, in the New York shooting of exiled Italian anti-Communist Carlo Tresca...
...Fight to the End. Had he lived, Carlo Tresca could have wielded great anti-Communist influence in postwar Italy. But on the night of Jan. 11, 1943, as he stepped from an office building into the wartime brownout of New York streets, a gunman killed him. Two days before, Tresca had told his friends: "Vidali is in town. That means there is a job to be done. I smell the stink of death." Police sought Vidali-Contreras for questioning, but could not find...
...wind was from the West, where Vidali was, Tito, like Tresca, might be able to "smell the stink of death...