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...Socialist government holds that he machines are a source of endless trouble. Officials say gangsters supply most of the slots to bar owners and then rake off half of the take. Interior Minister Gaston Defferre, who first proposed the ban, alls the machines "the milk cow of the underworld...
...manufacture of cocaine paraphernalia is a small industry in itself: users spend millions of dollars a year on coke spoons, free-base pipes and extraction kits, digital gram scales and the like.) Selling coke is, in the words of one U.S. drug official, "the most lucrative of all underworld ventures...
...United Nations, began making inquiries in New York Mafia circles. Working under a code name, "the Tailor," Campione was led to an influential Mafia consigliere in Brooklyn who makes his living by helping Italians move to the U.S. "The Fat Man," as the arranger is known in the underworld, agreed to put Campione in touch with a fugitive Mafioso from Italy who was hiding out in New York...
...American and Italian intelligence agents. Lombino was hustled away to a hotel a block from the U.S. embassy. Twice during the next day, he met with Franca Musi, a Red Brigades courier who had been captured two weeks earlier in Rome. The Italians thought that Musi, whose family had underworld connections, might give valuable information to Lombino, but she claimed only to know that Dozier was being held some where in Padua...
...enforcement authorities speculated that somebody was fearful that Dorfman might seek to cut his jail sentence by telling Teamsters or underworld secrets. Said Patrick F. Healy, executive director of the Chicago Crime Commission: "A lot of people in the criminal world will sleep better tonight knowing that Dorfman is silenced." Silence comes often around Chicago: this was the area's 1,081st gangland-style killing since the commission began keeping records...