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...Government's failed case was launched 17 months ago when the FBI learned that prominent Washington, D.C., Attorney William Borders was claiming to be a pipeline for bribes to Hastings, a longtime friend. The bureau asked a retired agent to pose as Frank Romano, one of two brothers recently convicted of racketeering in Hastings' court. The FBI man struck a deal with Borders: for $150,000, the Romanos' three-year sentence would be reduced to probation. Borders received the money, and last year he was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. The evidence against Borders...
Hello, everybody. This is Father Guide Sarducci, gossip columnist for L'Osservatore Romano. Well, all the Vatican is abuzz with news of the latest scandal to hit St. Peter's Square. No, Yasser Arafat has not been made a Cardinal. No, a Swiss Guard has not run away with Koo Stark. (That's just my little joke.) Instead, some movie people have made a big expensive picture about, get this, an American priest who finances the papacy with money he got from the Mafia. He also has a real steamy love affair with a French lady...
...Immigration Reform and Control Act, co-authored by Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Rep. Romano Mazzoli (D-Ky.) is probably the most fair-minded immigration bill in American history. It won bipartisan support and the editorial acclaim of most major daily newspapers. The Senate approved the bill in August, setting up a vote in the House of Representatives this fall...
...Jimmy Romano's world is with ten minutes of the doorstep of his two-story house. Until his recent retirement, he worked at the Middlesex County Courthouse a few blocks away on Thorndike St. To buy groceries, to get a haircut, to pray at his parish church, to socialize evenings, all Jimmy Romano does is take a short stroll to Cambridge...
...neighborhood has little of the transience found in sections of Cambridge dominated by apartment dwellers and students. Many residents, like Romano have lived in the same house...