Word: zelmanowitz
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...most celebrated former witness to date is Gerald Martin Zelmanowitz, a Brooklyn-born former stock swindler whose testimony resulted in the 1970 conviction of notorious Mafia Capo Angelo ("Gyp") DeCarlo. With his family, Zelmanowitz was relocated in San Francisco, where he became Paul Maris and eventually entered the ladies' garment business. The flamboyant Maris, né Zelmanowitz, got control of a 350-employee company but soon became embroiled in messy civil litigation with the firm's New York financial backers...
...question of ultimate responsibility for the conduct of protected witnesses has yet to be resolved. In the meantime, former hoodlums keep re-entering polite society every day. Zelmanowitz-Maris, for instance, has been relocated with yet another set of identity papers. The Government will not, of course, say where he is, but he has assured friends that his new business venture promises to be bigger than ever...
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