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DIED. TOMMASO BUSCETTA, 71, Italian organized-crime turncoat; of cancer; at an undisclosed U.S. witness-protection location. He testified in the New York "pizza connection" heroin-smuggling trial of the 1980s and helped put away hundreds of mobsters on both sides of the Atlantic...
...denied a reprieve by Bush 11. The X-Files figure 12. Spandau's last prisoner 14. Basso Pinza 17. Cackleberry producer 21. Real estate abbr. 23. Radius site 24. Robertson, who called a McCain co-chairman a "vicious bigot" 25. The Straight Talk Express, for one 26. Mob turncoat arrested for allegedly pushing Ecstasy 27. Sotheby's CEO Brooks, who resigned 28. Java emanation 29. Rebellious Sri Lankans 30. Busy mo. for 1-Across 31. McCain co-campaign chairman Rudman 32. Goldbrick 33. Sacagawea's likeness on the new $1 coin allegedly got a "__ job" 35. Like venison 38. Either...
...Since September, when the LAPD appointed a board of inquiry to investigate misdeeds in its anti-gang Rampart CRASH unit, a portrait has emerged of police power run amok on a horrifying scale. The investigation centers on the testimony of turncoat cop Rafael Perez, a Rampart CRASH officer who squealed after he was caught stealing cocaine from an evidence room. A cover story in Thursday's L.A. Times, for which the paper received exclusive access to Internal Affairs and D.A. documents of Perez's testimony, lists such police infractions as beating and framing innocent people, using deadly force against unarmed...
...girlfriend Jennifer Lopez. In the Hamptons, he sips Cristal with Martha Stewart and Calvin Klein. So why should he have anything but the best when it comes to legal representation? In anticipation of a weapons-felony indictment last week, Combs signed up attorneys Benjamin Brafman--who represented Mob turncoat Sammy ("the Bull") Gravano--and JOHNNIE COCHRAN (you may remember his work with a certain former football player). "There should not be a rush to judgment," said Brafman after the indictment, a sentiment clearly endorsed by Puffy. If convicted, he could face up to 15 years in prison, where...
...parts. NATO has reportedly arrested a spy within its command structure who allegedly passed on sensitive information that allowed Yugoslavia to down an F-117 stealth fighter in March, according to a report in the Scotsman newspaper. Unnamed NATO sources told the paper that a financially motivated turncoat had sold Russian intelligence agents some of the alliance?s Kosovo battle plans, including "detailed flight plans" for the F-117 on the day it was shot down. The Russians immediately passed the information on to the Serbs, who scored their most important propaganda victory of the war in downing the supposedly...