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...carefully avoided spilling any secrets about his long career with the Genovese family. Gigante has a rap sheet going back four decades, with arrests for bookmaking, gambling, receiving stolen goods and handgun possession. In most cases the charges were dropped or reduced, but in the early 1960s Gigante served five years in prison on drug charges, along with then godfather Vito Genovese. He apparently resolved to avoid the slammer: before this May, Gigante was arrested only once more, in 1970 on charges of trying to bribe the entire police force of Old Tappan, N.J. Gigante got the charges dropped after...
These are difficult times for the 25 families, or "brugads," that make up America's Cosa Nostra (rough translation: our thing). During the 1980s, some 1,200 Mafia operatives were convicted, including the leaderships of New York City's five brugads and 11 smaller Italian gangs in cities ranging from Denver to Kansas City to New Orleans. The bloodletting has decimated two major New York City families (Colombo and Bonanno) and enabled Gambino family boss John Gotti, a flamboyant newcomer, to rise up overnight as America's leading media mobstar...
...with Yemen and Cuba abstaining, to authorize "such measures commensurate to the specific circumstances" to enforce the sanctions voted against Iraq four days after the invasion. At Soviet insistence, the phrase "minimum use of force" was dropped, but that is still what the new, vaguer language means. With five dissent-free votes condemning Iraq in three weeks, the Security Council has taken on surprising new life as an international policeman...
...true that if we find someone guilty and recommend sanctions, it is very difficult because that person's a friend. This committee looks at every one of these cases individually, looks at the Keating Five individually, looks at the D'Amato case individually, and we will let the chips fall where they may. It's the institution that matters most...
...says. That day came in 1987 when she was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to be director of community-relations service at the U.S. Justice Department. Harley Hughes, who faced yet another reassignment, possibly to Europe, decided that this time his three-star career would give. He retired five years ahead of schedule...