Word: valachi
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...Valachi, the twelve days of Christmas always turned up 13. "I believed in Santa Claus and hung up my stocking," he solemnly attests in a recently completed 1,180-page autobiography. "But all I would get on Christmas was having my father try and give me a glass of whisky." So, as any child psychologist might have predicted, Joe joined the Cosa Nostra, muscled his way up through the ranks and then, in a long-running 1963 TV series that might have been called 1,000 Days with Bobby Kennedy, transferred his allegiance to the Irish Mafia...
Along the way, Hoover obliquely rapped Senator Robert Kennedy, who, as Attorney General, had successfully pressed for publicizing the secret testimony of ex-Mafia Hood Joseph Valachi. Hoover noted that "no indictments were returned" as a result of Valachi's testimony and, without mentioning Bobby's name, continued: "I was not in favor of the release of Valachi's testimony because I felt if there was any merit to what he had to say it ought to be run down and tried in court. My feeling in approaching the criminal problem has been...
Among the Italian-Americans, Keating made inroads by playing on their resentment of the Justice Department's Valachi hearings, in which lurid ta'.es of hoodlums with Italian names were told to the American public. Keating also nailed down the Greek vote by condemning Turkey's actions in Cyprus. There are only 31,000 Turks in New York, but there are 77,000 Greeks...
Many of Keating's charges--the mishandling of the sale of General Aniline and of the Valachi hearings--involve Kennedy's conduct as Attorney General. And Kennedy has been personally hurt by these accusations. He is, with at least some justification, fairly proud of his term at the Justice Department, and Keating's charges, most of which are underhanded political trash, have deeply offended...
...year dispute over the World War II seizure of the General Aniline & Film Corporation. He has charged Kennedy with walking out on civil rights by resigning as Attorney General when the Civil Rights Act had yet to be implemented: And, finally, he has charged that through the Valachi hearings Kennedy did an unnecessary disservice to Italian-Americans...