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...hitman offers alibis...
Jimmy Chagra, 39, is accused of hiring a hitman in May 1979 to murder John H. Wood Jr., the federal judge who had been scheduled to preside over his narcotics trial. Wood, 63, had earned the sobriquet "Maximum John" for his draconian sentences to drug dealers. Wood was shot in the back with a high-powered rifle in the driveway of his San Antonio home on May 29, the day originally set for Jimmy Chagra's trial. (Chagra was subsequently convicted on the drug charges and sentenced to 30 years in prison...
...gobbles up the testimony in Edie, culled by Jean Stein and George Plimpton from interviews with some 250 people who crossed paths or swords with the poor little rich girl. An awful fascination obtains to the book's elegant gossip. See Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary and hitman of the double-domed Right, dance wickedly on the grave of one of Edie's ancestors. Recall the night that Rock Star Jim Morrison paid sexual obeisance to Jimi Hendrix on the stage of Steve Paul's nightclub, the Scene. Watch Warhol shrug as a woman invades his Factory...
...they know who killed former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa in 1975, as well as why he was slain. But they have never been able to collect enough evidence that would stand up in court. Nonetheless, the Justice Department last week permitted one of its informers, a self-confessed Mafia hitman, to present his version of the motive for Hoffa's murder. Testifying behind a screen that obscured his features, the man, who now calls himself Charles Allen, told a Senate subcommittee investigating labor racketeering that Hoffa was killed so that he could not carry out a plot to kill...
According to a summary of information previously suppressed by the FBI but disclosed by the Senate committee, an unnamed informant told federal agents that Donovan had "socialized on a regular basis with Salvatore ['Sally Bugs'] Briguglio," a Mafia hitman slain by other mobsters in 1978. Briguglio was able to learn about low bids received by various city and state agencies in New Jersey, and allegedly passed the information to Donovan. Contended the informant, as reported in the committee document: "Briguglio received payoffs from Donovan for his assistance in obtaining the contracts...