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...indictments reach 1 higher and more broadly into the ; Mafia hierarchy in the Midwest. The accused include the Milwaukee chief Balistrieri, 64, and his two sons, Joseph, 43, and John, 34. The defendants in Chicago, who supervise their Milwaukee subordinates, include Aiuppa, 75, and Jackie Cerone, 69, the underboss. The main Kansas City defendants are Carl DeLuna, 56, the underboss there, and Carl Civella, 73, whose late brother Nick had headed the city's Mafia operations. In Las Vegas, Defendant Tony Spilotro, 45, is described by investigators as a hitman and watchdog for the Chicago crime group...
...should read it as Z but would always stand ready to switch it to the real meaning, inside the real meaning of the false meaning, which he would read as M." Pop is Angelo Partanna, consigliere to the nation's most puissant Mafia family. His son Charley is underboss and chief enforcer for the family, a geratic Brooklyn Mob headed by Corrado Prizzi, 84. Charley, the anti-hero of Prizzi's Honor, is somewhat deficient in the paternal paranoia that has helped earn the gang international clout and an annual gross income of $1.7 billion. However, he took...
Mellowest Tones. Federal authorities think the victims may include Eli Zeccardi, 67, underboss of the Genovese clan, and his top associate, Dominick Dequatro, 55; both have disappeared in the past month. Officials say the disappearances may be connected with the rise in the family of Vincent ("Chin") Gigante, 49. An ex-boxer, Gigante won lasting notoriety as the gunman who unsuccessfully tried to liquidate Mafia "Prime Minister" Frank Costello in 1957. The investigators doubt that Gigante is acting...
...Graying, grandfatherly Aniello Dellacroce (translation: "little lamb of the Cross"), who has spent only six of his 62 years in prison, for attempted burglary, assault and tax evasion. He was long Gambino's underboss and chief peacemaker. As befits an ex-assassin for Albert Anastasia's Murder, Inc., Dellacroce settled disputes between rival clans by a direct method: having troublemakers eradicated. He took over the Gambino family soon after his release from prison last December after serving 4� years for tax evasion and contempt of court...
...going on in Chicago, where the 250-member Mob, known as the Outfit, is still nominally in the hands of Anthony ("Big Tuna") Accardo, 71. He spends most of his time at his $126,000 condominium in Palm Springs, leaving day-to-day operations in the hands of Underboss Joseph Aiuppa, 69, nicknamed "Doves" because he once slaughtered hundreds of the birds while hunting in Kansas. But Aiuppa's grip is shaky?some authorities say he has no executive ability?and eager young thugs are on the warpath against the old guard. So far, they have not gone after Accardo...