Word: triggermen
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Night after night, just before bedtime for federal prisoners, two Mafia triggermen walked up to the modern twelve-story Metropolitan Correction Center near New York's city hall. With unidentified inside help, locked doors opened mysteriously for the gunmen, who took up positions in the hall outside one particular cell. Tossing restlessly on the hard pallet behind the bars was chunky Carmine ("Lillo") Galante, 68, who once aspired to become the Mafia's capo di tutti capi (boss of bosses). As lights dimmed in the cell block, the two armed men settled down for a nightlong vigil. Their...
...mystery to most of the Mafia too. Some Mob insiders believe they are a squad of "greenies"-gunmen lately brought illegally into this country from Sicily. Others say the .22 hits are the work of young Viet Nam War vets. Still other sources pin the killings on two seasoned triggermen of New York Drug King Carmine Galante. Whoever they are, they have brought the silenced .22 loud notoriety...
...voters in the 1972 elections seemed to want liberation. As it also happens, Albizu had waged a lifelong terrorist campaign. He instigated the 1950 assassination attempt against Harry Truman and in 1954, after four of his followers sprayed gunfire around the House of Representatives, wounding five Congressmen, hailed the triggermen for "sublime heroism...
...more than four tormented years, Kenneth and Joseph ("Chip") Yablonski have waited for justice in the murder of their father, United Mine Workers Insurgent Joseph A. ("Jock") Yablonski, their mother and sister. Prosecuting Attorney Richard Sprague has labored relentlessly those same years, winning the convictions of three triggermen and four co-conspirators and working his way up to the suspected mastermind of the plot. Last week it was all over after 4½ hours of jury deliberation in Media, Pa.: "Guilty, in the first degree," droned the jury foreman. "Guilty, in the first degree," he said again and once again...
State Judge Francis Catania told the jury that under Pennsylvania law, if a defendant is found guilty of ordering a murder, he is as culpable as the actual triggermen. The jury's decision turned out to be easy. Said the foreman: "There were never any firm votes for not guilty...