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...felt that some of the tips were coming from the Luccheses," says FBI agent Donald North, who supervises organized-crime investigations in New York City. "The family wanted him off the street." The elusive Casso was on the run from federal racketeering charges. During the don's 32 months underground, prosecutors charge, he ordered at least seven murders -- many over the phone. Appropriately, FBI agents traced Casso through his cellular-telephone calls transmitted through a radio tower near his hideout...
...home. "Look at the roadblocks the law sets out for somebody who has a need for child care and cannot find qualified U.S. workers," says Ted Ruthizer, a Manhattan attorney who specializes in immigration law. "The law hasn't discouraged unauthorized employment -- it's just made people go underground...
...lavished gifts on Katie and her teenage half-brother. On Dec. 28, Esposito reported that Katie had vanished from a video-game arcade where they had gone together. He didn't say he was the one who abducted her. Last week the girl was rescued from a small underground chamber where Esposito had kept her hidden for 16 days. Most of that time, Katie was kept in a coffinlike loft, 2 ft. by 3 ft., that contained a mattress, pillows and a television; often, she was chained by the neck. Every day Esposito brought his prisoner meals. Police suspect that...
...hard life of a child held captive underground for 16 days...
...normal. With the wettest months still to come, some reservoirs, such as Little Rock in Antelope Valley, right, that were low just months ago are now overflowing. Still, % meteorologists refuse to concede that the six-year drought is over, insisting that two more wet years are necessary to replenish underground water tables and permit an end to conservation efforts...