Word: yorks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From New York, Reagan flew into heavily Democratic territory in Boston's blue-collar Dorchester section. He was greeted warmly at an electrical workers union hall by 500 people waving placards (SINK WITH TED: SWIM WITH RON and southie for reagan). Reagan left Massachusetts to Ford without a fight in 1976; he intends to slug it out there this year, even though the hard-working Bush seems much better organized in the state than any other G.O.P. candidate...
...Scotto, 45, has long been laden with two very different reputations. A personable and articulate man who favors $500 pinstripe suits and expensive Manhattan restaurants, Scotto has lectured at Harvard University on labor relations, serves as a trustee of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and counts some of New York's most prominent politicians among his friends. But because of his occupational affiliation with the city's notoriously corrupt waterfront and his 1957 marriage to the niece of Mobster Albert Anastasia, police considered Scotto to be a criminal. In 1969, the FBI went so far as to identify...
...Hearn Jr. As evidence, the prosecution produced 27 tape recordings from FBI eavesdropping on Scotto's conversations over a period of five months. On one 1978 tape, he could be heard accepting $5,000 in cash from Montella in the men's room of a New York City hotel. Montella, the onetime owner of a marine carpentry company, testified that the payment was supposed to help prevent labor troubles...
Scotto admitted receiving a total of $75,000 from Montella and O'Hearn but insisted that the money was intended for political contributions. The union leader said that he in turn donated $25,000 in cash to New York Governor Carey's re-election campaign in 1978 and $50,000 in cash through an associate to Lieutenant Governor Mario Cuomo's unsuccessful campaign for mayor of New York City in 1977. Making political donations of more than $100 in cash is illegal, but Scotto claimed ignorance of the law. Both Carey and Cuomo denied any knowledge...
...bolster his defense, Scotto produced an extraordinary parade of character witnesses, including Carey and former New York City Mayors Robert Wagner and John Lindsay. Carey characterized Scotto as "trustworthy, energetic, intelligent, effective and dedicated." He is, testified the Governor, "one of the outstanding young labor leaders in the United States." After the verdict, Carey changed his assessment. Said he: "I feel compassion for Mr. Scotto's family and regret that a person of such considerable talent and ability has violated our laws...