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Mafia Runs Teamsters, Informant Says TRYING to STOP Sivii0king?) a * Coo Angeles gimes was.. tar. ta. tato—Pert I 25 e Mafia Runs Teamsters, Informant Says SAN FRANCISCO ( UPI) —The government witness against Tham, with Hoffa's successor, Frank Fitz- Teamsters Union is rim by the Mafia, charged with embezzling 52,791 in simmons. a former underworld "hit man." union funds, most of which was spent "They (the Teamsters) do what James (Jimmy the Weasel) Fratian- to entertain Fratianno and his friends. the Mafia says," Fratianno testified. no, testified Tuesday. Fratianno told the jury, sitting in a The witness admitted he had been Fratianno, who admitted being a case being tried before U.S. District a "hit man" (assassin) for the Mafia. longtime Mafia member and an FBI Judge Stanley Weigel, that he set out informant for many years, said that in 1973 to improve Tham's relation- did some work far them from was the reason he contacted Mafia ship with the international in ex- 19-17 to 1953," he said. members in Cleveland instead of change for Tham's promise to trans- He said he participated in five mur- Teamster offici: z while_ trying to fer the union local dental plan to Fra- ders and had, advance knowledge of he I "in - Teamster Ruy„,, tianno's friends, four others.. am, ho, Frati. ssa—ws m To that end, he said, be talked to Fratianno, a government witness in le—with the international union Mafia members in Cleveland "because a number of recent trials, wound up because he was known as a "Jimmy they run the Teamsters." his testimony in the Tham case and Haifa man." Fratianno said that in a year and a was returned to federal protective Fratianno, 66, was the chief half he improved Tham's relationship TRYING TO STOP SIVII0kING?) ,r---or—,---.--/ .e.- 771,--": i if4-..--7? /71 e....-1-1 e-r„r...5--,ec‹. 5-' 7: g'" 'ea a), ,elzr-e /1--e-)-zte _--e---7--A --e---1-e.1-4--7- —e----i-7--=- _ /Z,e-72..,,.-.--,4z-- , ! s"---s--•-, ,..--(1--0-- 41-....7,--1-c-e- - ,■-..7 I 1 Prk olicsv A Mob Seen Buffs in the Garden State Bare Bumbling Byzantine Braggadocio SOMERVILLE "Nicky Dirt," "Johnny Trim," "Big Nose," "Fat Michael," "Skinny Mich- ael," "Benny Eggs,' "The Colonel," "The Count," "Don Cheesy" and "Cheese." These are some of the characters In a cast of hundreds from the latest Ma- fia show in New Jersey, produced by he repeatedly demanded tribute trout the state attorney generals office. minions who never got around to po- The noms de guerre popped up in se- nying up. cretly taped recordings of alleged An Illiterate, Russo spun off mala- mobsters, played at pretrial hearings propisms worthy of Flip Mahoney in in the past month. "The Bowery Boys," repeatedly telling —for example—of putting hank assets In the first court case of its kind in "into escarole." the nation, the prosecution is trying Russo was slain gangland-style in to prove that there is indeed a Mafia his apartment last April, shot four and that eight reputed members of times in the head. Police never solved the Vito Genovese crime family, most the murder, but more or less conclude of them from resort towns on the cen- that his mob associates feared his scatterbrain nature would eventually tral New Jersey shore, committed a lead him, fumbling all the while, to string of crimes as members of a na- help the state police crack this wide- tionwide mob conspiracy. ranging case. The 60 hours or so of recordings, The prosecution alleges that Russo's made with court-approved wire taps, underlings included "Pee Wee," the room bugs and on-body device in 1977 4-foot-7 alleged numbers boss who and 1978, are invaluable to public un- screamed polysyllabic profanities derstanding of the Byzantine world of when frustrated, and Russo's young the New Jersey Mafia. But the picture alleged enforcers, who were heard that emerges from the tapes is not smoking a controlled substance when one of a coolly efficient band of un- out of sight of Russo, who didn't ap- derworld masterminds, as the state Is prove of recreational drugs. trying to portray. The Mafiosi reveal One of the enforcers, heard to brag without end of his manly performance with women, was bisexual, according Letter From New Jersey to sources—the first alleged mobster in that category, by all accounts. ANTHONY RUSSO As recorded on the tapes, the en- ... be blabbered to reporters themselves as thoroughgoing misfits forcers' routine in extorting from busi- and braggarts, but very scary types nessmen was, on the whole, discrete. just the same. No direct threats. Instead, they talked Their chieftain was Anthony (little of "guys from New York" who might Pussy) Russo, a blabbermouth who look up businessmen if the money talked to almost anyone, including wasn't paid. some reporters, about his strongarm "They're animals," one of the de- activities. The taped Russo dropped fendants warned a contractor, refer names of dozens of police officials, ring to the New Yorkers. "Ruthless." politicians and businessmen he It became clear in the recordings claimed to have in his pocket, but that there were, in fact, no "guys from state investigators said they found New York"—it was a rus.e by some not that most of his claims were false. very convincing guys from New Jer- "Little Pussy"—the name dates to sey. his early years as a cat burglar— Ragtag as they were, the mobsters surely deserves the mob's Rodney were involved in an impressive list of Dangerfield award for his perform. crimes, including the operation of a ance. Obsessed with lack of "respect" large numbers ring in North Jersey, from colleagues and underlings alike, - - ready prompted federal indictments extortion, robbery and the murder of of six men. Two of Russo's associates organization used by its members to an alleged Trenton mobster for hav- were charged variously with holding commit crimes and maintain power ing shot another Mafia associate, the hidden interests in the Jolly Trolley over rivals and victims." prosecutors claim. Casino in Las Vegas and with skim- There are still some people—criml- The state's best evidence Is on the ming profits from the casino. Federal nologists, newspaper columnists and Russo gang's loan sharking. A build- investigators also. charged that a far- even some law enforcement officials— ing contractor wore a microphone in a mer Las Vegas police detective took who doubt that there is a Mafia. jock strap at meetings where the en- bribes. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover denied forcers threatened to break his legs The big fish in both the federal and there was a mob for the last several and make his children "fatherless" un- New Jersey's Mafia conspiracy case is decades of his life. less he kept up payments of his 150 Ruggerio (The Boot) Boiardo, 89, a re- Most other federal law enforcement percent yearly "rig," or interest. puted capo regime in the Genovese officials believe that the U.S. Senate's The tapes also reveal apparent mob family who sarned his nickname as a organized crime hearings in the late interests in a wide range of legitimate bootlegger in the 1920s. 1950s proved there was a Mafia. businesses, from restaurant chains He is charged with ordering the The busting up of a nationwide, and seashore resorts to real estate de- murder of Trenton mobster Paul Cam. meeting of the mob at Apalachin, velopments. pantie and a robbery and overseeing N.Y., in 1957, seemed further confir- The authorities also learned a lot an extortion ring. as well as with con- mation, as did the subsequent Con- about the configuration of the nation- soirees, as a Mafia member. His law- gressional testimony of Mafioso Jo- wide mobs. They were helped in thim yers contend that Boiardo is too physi- seph Valachi. not only by Russo's garrulousness but cally and mentally feeble either to he Though the current case has gene- by his familiarity with many top mob- a mob captain or to stand trial. rated considerable publicity, mans sters around the country from his But a recording of a June 12, 1978, New Jerseyans think trying to prove days as chauffeur to Vito Genovese, conversation in a Newark luncheo- the existence of a New Jersey Mafia is once the Mafia's "boss of all bosses." nette shows Boiardo alert and force- like trying to confirm through the In some of his most unguarded mo- ful. He tells Russo, "I'm the boss," rules of evidence the existence of the ments, Russo chattered away about and scolds him for losing his grip on New Jersey Turnpike. mob attempts to infiltrate casinos in loan-sharking and casino-skimming op- One newspaper columnist here Las Vegas. Federal and state officials erations. rote that by telling us that there is a have taken notes. Mafia after all—in 1980--New Jersey "We'll be taking a lot of criticism Attorney General John Degnan might Russo said repeatedly that Anthony for putting an 89-year-old man on (Tony Pro) Provenzano and Matthew as well assert, 250 years after Newton, trial," said a top New Jersey law en- that "things generally fall downward." (Matty the Horse) Ianniello secretly forcement official. "But we think a run one casino. Provenzano, a long- man who can order another's murder —John Mintz time Teamsters Union leader in New is a dangerous man." Jersey, Is now serving a 20-year fed- eral sentence for racketeering. Ian- Perhaps harder to prove than Bolas- niello, reputedly Manhattan's leading do's competency will be the state's loan shark, controls many midtown main contention—that there exists a Manhattan bars and restaurants, ac- Mafia or Cosa Nostra, described in the cording to law enforcement officials.
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