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...United States must focus on economic growth, health and crime and saving the inner cities to meet its socio-political challenges, said House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich (RGa.) last night at the ARCO Forum...
...Arco's allegations are disturbing for several reasons. An articulate communicator with deep knowledge of interfamily operations, D'Arco is viewed by federal agents as the nation's most important Mafia rat since Joseph - Valachi, who provided the first real glimpses into organized crime 30 years ago. D'Arco has appeared on the witness stand in virtually every major Mob trial of this decade. If he is lying about Carey, his credibility as a witness is badly damaged. And if D'Arco is telling the truth, the credibility of the government is in question for sitting on hot information that...
...last week and confronted with the FBI report, IRB member Frederick Lacey, a former federal judge, sounded less absolute. "The matter is still open," he said uncomfortably. "We are awaiting further evidence relating to these allegations." The problem, insiders say, is that the FBI has refused to make D'Arco available for an in-depth interview by the IRB. Unfortunately, FBI officials refuse to discuss the subject...
...Once his memory is jogged, Carey insists that "there has never been an allegation of corruption in 239 from the government or from anyone else." In fact, Carey himself terminated the local's trustee in 1992, leaving the chapter in the hands of Patrick Bellantoni. According to D'Arco, Bellantoni is better known to the wiseguys as "Pat Lagano," a protector of Lucchese family interests...
...Trerotola, whom D'Arco links to Carey, was one of the country's most powerful Teamsters before he quit in dis grace. He was also a chairman of the Irish American Teamsters, whose letterhead listed Carey as a "committee member." In 1986 the group celebrated its silver anniversary with a dinner dance honoring union boss Jackie Presser as its "man of the year." Presser subsequently died before he could be tried on embezzlement charges. Carey, through a spokesman, remarkably insists he has "never been on any committee of Irish Teamsters...