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Died. Carlo ("Don Carlo") Gambino, 74, chief of New York City's most powerful Mafia family; in his sleep; in Massapequa, N.Y. The Sicilian-born Gambino came to the U.S. as a stowaway at the age of 19. He assumed control of his underworld clan in 1957 after the assassination of its boss, Albert Anastasia, in the barbershop of the Park-Sheraton Hotel. Although the Federal Government tried to deport Gambino for ten years, a series of heart attacks enabled him to successfully thwart expulsion to Italy...
...time. As they near their destination, they are transferred to smaller trucks to reduce the risk of detection and the loss in case of seizure. Once in New York, some of the cigarettes are sold at cut rates-often 350 a pack below normal retail prices-by underworld operatives in bars, offices, factories, beauty parlors and apartment buildings. Others are marked with counterfeit tax stamps and distributed to ostensibly legitimate retail dealers. The counterfeiting, say state authorities, is often so expert that it can be detected only by laboratory tests...
Emprise. A little more tangled. Emprise is a Buffalo, N.Y. conglomerate, allegedly well-connected with underworld figures. It controls about 160 corporate entities, but its biggest business is gambling in Las Vegas and dog tracks around the country. Emprise owns all six of Arizona's dog tracks, but has to sell two of them by 1978, mostly because Bolles's articles forced a lethargic state legislature to correct the monopoly. But it still keeps the tracks for two more years after Bolles's death...
...tipster Bolles was to meet, or so it said on the note Bolles left on his desk. Police searched Adamson's apartment after the bombing and found equipment for and books on how to make bombs. A business partner, Robert Lettiere, another minor figure in the Phoenix underworld, said under oath later that while he and Adamson were riding around, Adamson mentioned he was going to blow up a car. He was going to blow up the car, Adamson said, "because some people don't like this guy." On June 5, Adamson was ordered to stand trial for murder...
...investigation in spite of Dassault, police found that De Vathaire had compiled what he regarded as an incriminating dossier concerning the finances and sales of the Dassault conglomerate. Suspicions of blackmail were reinforced when police learned that the seemingly respectable accountant had recently become enmeshed in the French underworld. Around the time of the death of his wife, who drowned in a bathtub last March, De Vathaire took up with a nightclub hostess, the estranged wife of a man wanted by the Paris police. A friend of hers introduced the $60,000-a-year accountant to Jean Kay, a flamboyant...