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“Bayonne Joe” Zicarelli, Irving Davidson, and Israel
Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy Online Addendum to Chapter 4 “Bayonne Joe” Zicarelli, Irving Davidson, and Israel By Jonathan Marshall “Bayonne Joe” Zicarelli’s international circle of business contacts and political allies extended far beyond the Caribbean. In particular, he teamed up with adventurers, criminals, lobbyists, and intelligence agents involved in creating and defending the state of Israel. Their unorthodox tactics were reminiscent of the China Lobby’s. Both groups were dedicated to saving a small and beleaguered nation by any means necessary. Like the China Lobby, this pro-Israel network illustrates the deep political nexus between organized crime, corruption, and intelligence. In the early 1950s, according to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Zicarelli was “alleged to have been involved in the traffic of arms and munitions sold to the government of Israel.” Probably not coincidentally, the gangster was also a business partner of two leading Jewish bootleggers, Abner “Longie” Zwillman and Schenley CEO Lewis Rosenstiel.1 More than a few prominent Jewish gangsters, including Meyer Lansky, Zwillman, “Bugsy” Siegel, and Mickey Cohen, supported the Jewish underground with money and logistics help in the late 1940s.2 Zicarelli’s partner in the sale of arms and stolen securities, Steven Irwin Schwartz, had been a prominent gunrunner to Jewish armies in Palestine. Schwartz was an officer in ABCO, a New Jersey cigarette vending company controlled by Zicarelli and New York Mafia underboss Carmine Galante. “Since 1946,” the FBN report noted, “Schwartz has been engaged in the traffic of arms, a good portion of which have been obtained from Communist Bloc nations and shipped first to Israel and later to Cuba.”3 Associated with Schwartz in those ventures were Irving “Swifty” Schindler and TWA flight engineer Adolf Schwimmer. -
Avoiding the Fall Bankruptcy Filings Plummeted in 2015, but Will the Trend Continue This Year?
20160314-NEWS--1-NAT-CCI-CL_-- 3/11/2016 3:23 PM Page 1 VOL. 37, NO. 11 MARCH 14 - 20, 2016 HIGHER ED: Akron Business of Life University fights drop in enrollment P. 4 Fun mail Local companies will send FOCUS: Big Fun you stuff other than bills Owner adjusts to Internet age P. 15 P. 22-23 SOURCE LUNCH CLEVELAND BUSINESS The List John Petures Jr. talks local giving Employee benefit services firms P. 24 P. 27 Avoiding the fall Bankruptcy filings plummeted in 2015, but will the trend continue this year? BY JEREMY NOBILE Mirroring a national trend, Ohio’s commercial and per- sonal bankruptcy filings continued to plunge in 2015, hitting a multi-year low in response to factors in- cluding a generally stronger economy and a prolonged low-interest rate environment. But that could change this year, partic- ularly for corporate filings tied to more unstable industry sectors, like oil and gas, which many businesses in this region are exposed to. According to the American Bank- ruptcy Institute, all filings in the Unit- ed States fell 10% in the 2015 calendar year from 2014. That includes a 14% annual drop in commercial filings and 10% drop for consumers. Those 819,285 commercial and personal bankruptcies filed in calendar year 2015 are the fewest filings logged nationwide SEE BANKRUPTCY, PAGE 12 DANIEL HERTZBERG Global Center out Local donors back to reduce vacancy BY JAY MILLER reach. It has more than 500 offices in 67 countries. Kasich Super PAC [email protected] Its job will be to lease the remain- @millerjh ing 20,000 feet of vacant space in the four-story building, that, along with Businesses, execs give $1.3 million to New Day for America The Global Center for Health In- the First Merit Convention Center of novation is hiring Colliers Interna- Cleveland, comprise a $465 million BY JAY MILLER according to Federal Elections Com- based gambling operations. -
Nixon's Caribbean Milieu, 1950–1968
Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy Online Appendix: Nixon’s Caribbean Milieu, 1950–1968 By Jonathan Marshall “Though his working life has been passed chiefly on the far shores of the continent, close by the Pacific and the Atlantic, some emotion always brings Richard Nixon back to the Caribbean waters off Key Biscayne and Florida.”—T. H. White, The Making of the President, 19681 Richard Nixon, like millions of other Americans, enjoyed Florida and the nearby islands of Cuba and the Bahamas as refuges where he could leave behind his many cares and inhibitions. But he also returned again and again to the region as an important ongoing source of political and financial support. In the process, the lax ethics of its shadier operators left its mark on his career. This Sunbelt frontier had long attracted more than its share of sleazy businessmen, promoters, and politicians who shared a get-rich-quick spirit. In Florida, hustlers made quick fortunes selling worthless land to gullible northerners and fleecing vacationers at illegal but wide-open gambling joints. Sheriffs and governors protected bookmakers and casino operators in return for campaign contributions and bribes. In nearby island nations, as described in chapter 4, dictators forged alliances with US mobsters to create havens for offshore gambling and to wield political influence in Washington. Nixon’s Caribbean milieu had roots in the mobster-infested Florida of the 1940s. He was introduced to that circle through banker and real estate investor Bebe Rebozo, lawyer Richard Danner, and Rep. George Smathers. Later this chapter will explore some of the diverse connections of this group by following the activities of Danner during the 1968 presidential campaign, as they touched on Nixon’s financial and political ties to Howard Hughes, the South Florida crime organization of Santo Trafficante, and mobbed-up hotels and casinos in Las Vegas and Miami. -
EAST SIDEY NEWS I Vegetables: ' Funmy Bivins Enters Als 9-S
Thome hits record home run n Jim Thome hits longest home run I I SPORTS in Cleveland's history on Sat, July 3, 1999. MENU TIPS Thome hit a fastball off Don Wengert of the Royals, an estimated 511 feet, to beat the Roy- EAST SIDEY NEWS I Vegetables: ' funmy Bivins Enters als 9-S. On JuneS, 1999, Thome hit a ball464 ISSUED FRIDAY feet The record for Jacobs field was 48.5 feet, A Great Way SERVING LARCHMERE - WOODLAND, S.HAKER SQUARE, BUCKEYE, WOODLAND, Boxing Hall ofFame Mark McGuire on April30, 1997. 476 feet Mo Vaughn, Sept 29, 1998. 464 feet, Ken GriJfey, To Start Your Day MT. PLEASANT, LEE & AVALON, HARVARD- LEE, MILES- UNION, UNIVERSITY Jr., June 18, 1999. The record at Cleveland Sta- CIRCLE AREA, WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, VILLAGE OF See Page 7 dium is 477 feet by Luke Easter on June 23, SeePage 8 1950. There is no record for League Park: FREE HIGHLAND HILLS AND CITY OF EAST CLEVELAND READ ON - WRITE ON Thesday, June 22, 1999 -Friday, Ju~e 25, 1999 George W. White's career 'reflected' Vol. 20 No.3 "COVERING THE NEWS TODAY FOR A BETTER TOMORROW" .--::.- - By CLAUDE STARKS crimination. to work for." White defeated incum Attorney Stanley Three indicted for buried corpse Former Chief U.S. bent Robert Grogan in 1968 for Tolliver, who has a "50 year," re He was arrested for Judge for the Northern District Common Pleas judge, completing lationship with White, said that By CLAUDE STARKS Chambers' death in his Terrace of Ohio George W. White re an unexpired tenn. -
Justice Department Implicated in Teamster Murder?
Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 4, Number 22, May 31, 1977 LABOR Justice Department Implicated In Teamster Murder? At approximately 3:00 pm on May 17. John Nardi. the * The Detroit FBI office is the central coordinating Secretary-Treasurer of International Brotherhood of point for all "black operations" directed againt the IBT, Teamsters Local 410 was assassinated in front of the and Special Agent WiIIiam GraybiII is in charge of these Teamster offices in Cleveland by a bomb planted in his deployments. The Detroit FBI office is know� to have an car. assassination capability: GraybiII has been identified as Information provided to NSIPS by informed sources in the controller of Vernon Higgins, who was involved in the the intelligence community strongly suggests that the 1971 Pontiac, Mich. school bus bombing arid who was assassination is part of the 20-year campaign by several later deployed to infiltrate the U.S. Labor Party. Ac federal agencies. notably including the Justice Depart cording to sources, the kidnapping-assassination of ment and Federal Bureau of Investigation. to destroy the James Hoffa was ordered by FBI officials in Washington IBT. the nation's largest union and. potentially, a major and carried out by networks under the control of Special opponent of the Rockefeller interests. This new in Agent GraybiII. formation demonstrates that sections of the government conducted a virtual war with the Teamsters - including * These operations are interfaced with deployments by assassinations of union leaders like Jimmy Hoffa - with the Justice Department's Organized Crime Strike Force the full knowledge and complicity of Attorney Generals and the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, from Robert Kennedy, through Ramsey Clark. -
HSCA Volume V: 9/28/78
378 Obviously, the possibility cannot be dismissed, although it can hardly be said to have been established. At this point, it is, in your words, Mr. Chairman, perhaps only a little more than a "suspicion suspected," not a "fact found." The committee decided early in its investigation, as soon as it realized that a Mafia plot to assassinate the President warranted serious consideration, to assemble the most reliable information available on organized crime in the United States. The details of this phase of the committee's investigation will, of course, appear, hopefully in full, in its final report, a report that will consider the background of organized crime in America, the structure o£ the Mafia in the early 1960's, the effort by the Kennedy administration to suppress the mob, and the evidence that the assassination might have been undertaken in retaliation for those efforts. To scrutinize the possible role of organized crime in the assassi- nation, the committee early brought on one of the country's lead- ing experts on the subject. He is Ralph Salerno, whose career as an organized crime investigator with the New York City Police De- partment goes back to 1946. Mr. Salerno has since retired from the New York City Police Department and I would note that on the day of his retirement, the New York Times was moved to comment that he perhaps knew more about the Mafia than any nonmember in the United States. It would be appropriate at this time, Mr. Chairman, to call Ralph Salerno. Chairman STOKES . The committee calls Mr. -
INVESTIGATIONS OFFICER Plaintiff, V. DOMINIC SENESE, JOSEPH TALERICO, and JAMES COZZO Defendants. OPINION of the INDEPENDENT
INVESTIGATIONS OFFICER Plaintiff, OPINION OF THE INDEPENDENT v. ADMINISTRATOR DOMINIC SENESE, JOSEPH TALERICO, and JAMES COZZO Defendants. Charges having been filed by Charles M. Carberry, Investigations Officer, against Dominic Senese ("Senese"), Joseph Talerico ("Talerico"), and James Cozzo ("Cozzo"),' a hearing was held on March 22-23, 1990. Pre and post-hearing memoranda were received and both Senese and Talerico were represented by counsel. Cozzo made no appearance. By letter of March 9, 1990, Cozzo, Senese. and Talerico were notified that the hearing would be held in Judge Abraham Marowitz's courtroom in the United States Courthouse, 219 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois. The location of the hearing was changed on March 21, 1990, to the offices of Edward J. Calihan, Jr., attorney for Talerico. Mr. Calihan's office and the United States Courthouse are both on South Dearborn Street in Chicago. Because Cozzo was not given timely notice of the site change, the Investigations Officer, at my direction, posted a representative at Judge Marowitz's courtroom from 9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., on March 22, 1990, so that Cozzo could be thus advised. As the record ' A charge was also brought against Joseph Glimco, Sr., but was adjourned without date due to Mr. Glimco's medical condition. reflects, Cozzo did not appear at either Judge Marowitz's courtroom or at Mr. Calihan's office. Finding that Cozzo's absence was willful, I heard the case against him. The record includes my March 8, 1990, letter to Cozzo, which referenced and transmitted five documents relating to the charges against Cozzo and the scheduled hearing. -
Kill the Irishman (2011—R)
57 KILL THE IRISHMAN (2011—R) STARS: RAY STEVENSON, VAL KILMER, CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, VINCENT D’ONOFRIO DIRECTOR: JONATHAN HENSLEIGH Chances are you’ve never heard of the Cleveland Greene, known to all as “The Irishman.” All these Mob Wars. They began with the death of Mafia years later, Greene has become a legend to certain boss John Scalish in 1976, leaving control of the constituencies, a charismatic mythical figure. city’s criminal enterprises and corrupt labor unions Greene’s story is told in the excellent 2011 up for grabs. biopic, Kill the Irishman , which covers his rise Soon enough, the power struggle began. By the from lugging boxes as a stevedore to running a cor - end of the year, 36 bombs had exploded around rupt union to working as a mob enforcer to northeast Ohio and more than a dozen men were standing up to the new Mafia boss—Scalish’s killed. The Cleveland wars sparked a chain reac - replacement—looking to grab a percentage of tion that shook the underworld structure in Greene’s operation. There’s a lot packed into two Milwaukee, Kansas City and other organized crime hours. outposts. It led to acting Los Angeles boss Jimmy Along the way, Kill the Irishman borrows from “the Weasel” Fratianno—who knew the inner some of the best gangster movies ever made. The workings of La Cosa Nostra across the country— opening shot—a flash forward to Greene surviving flipping to become one of the government’s a car bombing that actually occurs later in the most-important witnesses against the mob. -
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Biographies 589 crat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses 16, 1831; attended the common schools and was graduated (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937); was not a candidate for from Keene (N.H.) Academy; moved to Wisconsin in 1853 renomination, but was a successful candidate for Governor and settled near Beloit, Rock County; engaged in agricul- of Montana and served in that office from January 4, 1937, tural pursuits; elected alderman and was a member of the until January 6, 1941; resumed his ranching activities; died first city council of Beloit; unsuccessful Democratic candidate in Lewistown, Mont., May 23, 1955; interment in Lewistown for election in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; appointed City Cemetery. postmaster of Beloit by President Cleveland on August 2, 1886, and served until August 17, 1889, when a successor AYRES, Steven Beckwith, a Representative from New was appointed; appointed secretary of the State agricultural York; born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, October 27, 1861; moved society of Wisconsin in 1885 and served until 1899; elected with his parents to Elmira, N.Y., in 1866; attended the as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891- grammar school; moved to Penn Yan, N.Y., in 1873; at- March 3, 1893); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 tended the Penn Yan Academy and was graduated from to the Fifty-third Congress; retired from public life and ac- Syracuse (N.Y.) University, in 1882; engaged in the pub- tive business pursuits and resided in Beloit, Wis., until his lishing business at Penn Yan and was editor of the Yates death there on March 11, 1907; interment in the Protestant County Chronicle; delegate to the Republican State conven- Cemetery. -
Criminal Investigations of Mr. Jackie Presser and Other Teamsters Officials
t c < IJnlted Statee General Accounting Of’f’ice ( * Briefing Report to the Permanent Glro Subcorrtndtee on Investigations, Ccxwn~.ttee0111. Governmental AfTfairs, t, United States Senate December 1986 LABOR LA!W Criminal Investigations of Mr. Jackie Presser and Other Teamsters Officials 111illllllllll ll 132240 RWRio?hE) - Not to be lreleased autdde the Oenerqr Aecountlng OtRcs except on the basis of specific yysrovdl by the OffIce of Congressional Relations, 5(00 RELElSED GAQ/HRD47-2SBR LJnited State8 General Accounting OfTice Gc) Washington, IX. 20548 Human Resources Division R-223619 The Honorable William V. Roth Jr., Chairman The Honorable Sam Nunn, Ranking Minority Member Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate This briefing report is in response to your July 25, 1985, letter and later discussions with your offices relating to the Jackie Presser case. Mr. Presser has been president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehouse- men, and Helpers of America Union (Teamsters Union) since 1983; he has also been secretary-treasurer of Local 507 since 1972. You expressed concern that the Department of Justice may have rejected recommendations of its prosecutors and a federal grand Jury in Cleveland, Ohio, in declining to prosecute Mr. Jackie Presser for allegedly authorizing payments to employees at Teamsters Union Local 507 in Cleveland who received payments but who performed little or no work, "ghost workers." The Department of Labor's investigators developed the case against Mr. Presser initially and then referred it to Justice. The Subcommittee also expressed concern about a lack of coordl- nation in the investigation of Mr. -
ANSHE CHESED FAIRMOUNT TEMPLE Please Join Us in May
ANSHE CHESED FAIRMOUNTBulletin TEMPLE MAY 2012 IYAR 5772 The Shavuot issue has been endowed by Toni & Alan Gendler and their children Jodi, of Blessed Memory, Jamie and Shanna. MAKE MAY 28, MEMORIAL DAY, TRULY MEANINGFUL— Please Join Us in May - Continuing the tradition, Fairmount Temple has FRIDAY, MAY 4 committed to placing 6:15 p.m. Annual Preschool Dinner in Weinberg Hall American flags on each of (reservations closed) the almost 300 graves of Jewish veterans 7:15 p.m. KIDushat Shabbat in Bogomolny Faigin Activity at Mayfield Cemetery. We need as many Center for preschool age children and their families volunteers as possible on this mitzvah of 6 p.m. Brotherhood and Sisterhood Shabbat Dinner in Simon remembrance! All ages are welcome on Lounge (reservations closed) this project we do in conjunction with 7:30 p.m. Shabbat Evening Service in the Bonda Chapel The Temple Tifereth Israel. (please note on this evening there will not be a 6:15 p.m. service) If you can join us on Monday, May 28 at SUNDAY, MAY 6 9:30 a.m. at the cemetery, or if you know 9:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Fairmount Temple’s Annual Meeting of a veteran buried at Mayfield who may At the Meeting, a slate of trustees will be elected to serve a three- not be on our list, please contact Wendy year term on the Board of Directors, a year-end recap will be given, Jacobson, 216-447-9542. Rabbi Caruso and Board President Jim Levine will present the President’s Award will also honor our Jewish veterans dur- to Wendy Jacobson for all her efforts in building Caring Commu- ing memorial prayers at our Shabbat Ser- nity here at Fairmount Temple.