Word: vito
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rocks. Determined to persuade the city to put a second man in all patrolling squad cars and to eliminate lie detector tests for recruits, Chicago's finest started a "job action"; they festooned almost anything that moved with tickets. Even Mayor Richard Daley was outraged. When Alderman Vito Marzullo discovered a ticket on his Cadillac, he was driven to philosophical speculation: "Are they performing their duties now, or have they neglected their duties in the past...
...once summoned to his native Italy to receive the personal praise of his deported boss, Lucky Luciano, for jumping into a Madison Square Garden ring and slugging the referee after one of his fighters, Rocky Castellani, was beaten. He climbed steadily in the family of Luciano's successor, Vito Genovese, partly by shooting straight. He reportedly carried out a contract in 1962 to gun down Anthony Strollo, another rising Genovese aide, who had insisted on dealing in narcotics against the family rules. Eboli fell out of mob favor for a time when he was so brash as to distribute...
Gallo was sighted at Umbertos Clam House in Manhattan's Little Italy on April 7 by a small-time racketeer who quickly spread the word. Most interested was Carmine ("Sonny Pinto") DeBiase, a soldier in the Mafia clan once headed by the late Vito Genovese. He recruited Phil ("Fat Fungi") Gambino, a distant relative of Carlo's, and two Brooklyn mobsters identified so far only as brothers...
Leniency. The New York police share that suspicion and are hoping to find Yacovelli before the Gallos do. But there are other suspects, including Carmine DeBiase, a member of the Mafia family headed by the late Vito Genovese. By decree of the Gambinos, the Gallo contract was "wide open"-meaning that any executioner from any family could kill him and have the backing of the Gambinos. The Gallos think, however, that two Colombo men killed Joey: one of them, Rocco Miraglia, seems to fit the description of the assassin. Besides, Gallo's men recall that a few months...
...tension was noticeably high on both teams before the important their game. As John Kiely, the Garden's organist tickled the keys of his Whirling Wurlitzer" in a stepped up tres vito Jerry Lucas, the Knicks center, paced up attention poised Knick bench. This was it. If the Celts lost, they would be down 3-0 facing elimination in New York on Friday...