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...deception of Wilfred ("Willie Boy") Johnson, a Gambino-family associate. Caught carrying $50,000 in a paper bag in 1981, Johnson invited New York City detectives to help themselves to the cash. They charged him with bribery. After that Johnson, who hung out at Gotti's Bergen Hunt and Fish Club, kept the cops posted on how the rising star was progressing. He also suggested where bugs might be placed...
...Most of its residents were Italian and middle class. She would pass mom-and-pop stores, funeral parlors, and butcher shops that displayed an array of Italian sausages in the window. On her right, she often glanced at an inconspicuous red brick building known, oddly enough, as the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club. It caught her attention because there were always men loitering out front. She recalls wondering, What do these men do for a living...
...Bergen Hunt and Fish Club was then the haunt of a smart and sharp young hoodlum named John Gotti. Over the next 15 years, while Giacalone moved from college to law school to a job at the Justice Department, Gotti was moving up through the ranks of the Mafia. Four years ago, their paths crossed more decisively. Giacalone had become an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, and Gotti was a feared capo in the Gambino family who ruthlessly ran his empire from the same red brick building on 101st Avenue. Giacalone had just successfully prosecuted four men for two armored...
...parts of Ozone Park, Gotti is a folk hero. He lives in Howard Beach, a few miles away, in an unpretentious, tree-shaded house. On a corner of 101st Avenue, a few blocks down from the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club, Connie, a school crossing guard, has been escorting children across the same street for ten years. "People here look up to him," she says of Gotti. "As soon as you mention his name, he gets respect. As far as I'm concerned, they're crucifying him." A young mother in a powder blue jumpsuit, who is picking...
LAST FALL, Democratic National Chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. '60 and his cadre of politicos at the Democratic National Committee put together a new "Policy Commission" to inject some excitement into their moribund party. The mandate of this fearsome phalanx was to hunt down some New Ideas and forge them in the Great Democratic Furnace. The desired result? A new image for the Democratic Party...