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  mafia international - corallo
Tony Corallo was boss of the Lucchese crime family; during his tenure as boss he got the Lucchese crime family heavily involved in the construction industry.
Corallo was a smooth operator, he managed to dodge so many convictions in his criminal career that his fellow mobsters gave him the nick name Tony Ducks.
Corallo was excellent at avoiding convictions during the 1940's and 1950's, hence the nickname Tony ducks again.
glasgowcrew.tripod.com /corallo.html   (1194 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Anthony Corallo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The FBI identified the 71-year-old Corallo as long-time leader of the Lucchese Family in 1985, as authorities moved against the Mafia Commission members in New York.
Police agencies had bugged a car, which was owned by a Corallo confidant and often used by Corallo, and then followed that car around for four months, picking up pieces of conversations.
Corallo is believed to have been a key participant in bid-rigging and bribery schemes involving New York City government contracts.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Anthony-Corallo   (454 words)

  
 GottiFBI's Agents Notes
Corallo was named "Tony Ducks" because of all the times that he ducked prosecution.
Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo was incarcerated in 1986 and died in 2000.
Corallo, a close friend of the late James R. Hoffa, died in 1986 and was succeeded by Vittorio Amuso who ruled the family until 1992 when he was handed a life sentence.
www.agentsnotes.com /mafia.html   (8060 words)

  
 Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com - Organized Crime and the Labor Unions
Glimco is the henchman of Joey Aiuppa and Anthony Accardo.
Sal Briguglio, Anthony Provenzano, Harold Koeingsburg are being investigated by the FBI for the kidnap murder of Anthony Castellito, a former 560 official in the early 1960's.
Anthony Accardo's son is a motion picture projector operator and union official.
www.americanmafia.com /Crime_And_Labor.html   (11220 words)

  
 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Appellee, v. ANTHONY SALERNO, CARMINE PERSICO, GENNARO LANGELLA, ANTHONY CORALLO, SALVATORE ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Corallo contends that the evidence was insufficient to establish his involvement in the "Club," and therefore to convict him on the extortion and labor bribery predicates and substantive counts.
Corallo and Santoro contend that the evidence of their intercession, on behalf of John DiLeo, in a "turf" dispute with the Gambino family concerning DiLeo's loansharking activities in Staten Island is not sufficient to sustain the jury's findings on the loansharking conspiracy and predicates.
Given the limited value of the evidence to Corallo, Santoro and Salerno, and the high degree of prejudice to codefendants from this similar act evidence, the trial judge did not abuse his discretion.
www.thelaborers.net /lexisnexis/868_f2d_524.htm   (6829 words)

  
 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Appellee, v. ANTHONY SALERNO, CARMINE PERSICO, GENNARO LANGELLA, ANTHONY CORALLO, SALVATORE ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Anthony Salerno, Carmine Persico, Gennaro Langella, Anthony Corallo, Salvatore Santoro, Ralph Scopo, Christopher Furnari and Anthony Indelicato appeal from judgments of conviction entered in the [**3] United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Richard Owen, Judge, after an eleven week jury trial.
Corallo's nephew, John DiLeo, had been running a loansharking operation on Staten Island, in Gambino family "territory," without the permission of the Gambino family.
Even if the evidence is not conclusive that Corallo and Santoro contemplated any direct or immediate remuneration for their help in smoothing the way for DiLeo, that does not mean that Corallo and Santoro were not co-conspirators.
www.thelaborers.net /court_cases/us_vs_salerno.htm   (7995 words)

  
 The Decline of the Lucchese Family
The authority approach was successful as evidenced by the fact that the jury in the trial found the defendants guilty of all seventeen racketeering acts and twenty related charges of extortion, labor payoffs and loan-sharking.
Corallo and the others were sentenced to long jail terms and fined for their roles in the activities that were judged.
The final job that Corallo had facing him was the selection of someone to assume his role as head of the Family.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/organized_crime/66137   (476 words)

  
 AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 76
Anthony Salerno et al) charged that the New York Mafia Commission directed the relationship among the Mafia families that were active in New York and authorized the 1979 murder of Carmine Galante, boss of the Bonanno family.
Its big break came after a microphone placed inside the dashboard of Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo, boss of the Lucchese family, picked Corallo explaining a series of schemes run by New York's five ruling Mafia families.
In addition, Corallo and Santoro were fined, the amounts of $250,950 and $240,900 respectively.
www.americanmafia.com /Feature_Articles_76.html   (3765 words)

  
 Teamsters-IBT in the President's Commission on Organized Crime
Under the leadership of Anthony Provenzano, Local 560 was used for more than 20 years by a "group of gangsters, aided and abetted by their relatives and sycophants," who engaged in a "multifaceted orgy of criminal activity" against the rank-and-file membership.
Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano began as a business agent for Local 560 in 1954, became president of the Local in 1958, and later served as secretary-treasurer between 1975 and 1978.
Adelstein's power in the Teamsters is reflected in the fact that he ran for an IBT Joint Council office to keep the son of Anthony Corallo, boss of the LCN Luchese family, from winning the position.
www.laborers.com /Commission_IBT.html   (11287 words)

  
 village voice > news > Bringing the Nation Back on Track by Chisun Lee
Government lawyers were combing the opinions to discern how little they could change in their detention policies and still comply with the rulings.
Dismissing the notion that the president might regret having taken such a hard line on individual rights, Corallo said, "We looked at the issues, and we took a stance.
This trench talk makes the Court's decision, to stick by "the fundamental nature of a citizen's right to be free from involuntary confinement by his own government without due process of law," seem that much more courageous.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0427/lee.php   (1745 words)

  
 All about Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters, by Anthony Bruno
Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano’s pocket local, Local 560, eventually came under government oversight, putting a major crimp in Provenzano’s illegal operations.
In 1978 he was prosecuted and found guilty of the 1961 murder of Anthony Castellito.
Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone, who allegedly set up Hoffa, was tried and convicted on tax evasion charges and spent 10 years in prison.
www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/famous/jimmy_hoffa/4.htm   (1063 words)

  
 Celebrities Line Up to Criticize Bush in A.C.L.U. Campaign
Corallo accused the civil liberties union of trying to create an atmosphere of fear.
With a budget of $3 million, the campaign is consuming much of the $4.5 million the civil liberties union typically spends on advertising in a year.
Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the group, said the decision to spend so much on one effort reflected a belief that disaffection with the Bush administration and its policies was growing, and that opportunities to gain new support and members were growing along with it.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/981108/posts   (1960 words)

  
 Respected, But Still Dead
Palermo and DiChiara, however, as well as mobster Anthony Capo, pleaded guilty to racketeering and murder charges, and are cooperating with federal prosecutors, according to court records.
(Chin) Gigante and Luchese boss Anthony (Tony Ducks) Corallo as revenge for Gotti's execution of his predecessor, Paul Castellano, the plot abruptly stopped after DeCicco's bomb death in April, 1996, according to FBI reports.
Then-Luchese capos Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso and Vittorio Amuso, among others, were on the scene.
www.ganglandnews.com /column200.htm   (863 words)

  
 Union Corruption: Why It Happens, How to Combat It   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1979 Anthony Scotto, a Gambino captain, was convicted of extorting $225,000 in bribes from waterfront businessmen.
One, Anthony Fiorino, was the brother-in-law of Barney Bellomo, widely believed to be acting boss of the Genovese crime family.
Anthony Provenzano was Bufalino’s main entrée into the Teamsters’ extortion, pension fraud and bank fraud rackets in the New York-New Jersey area.
www.nilrr.org /corruption.htm   (20610 words)

  
 Legal Technology - Top Attorneys Tapped for High Court Tech Cases
It is rare for in-house counsel for such a large company to drop everything and argue before the Court, but Cappuccio was determined to argue against telecommunications-style regulation for cable modem service.
The Grokster case has gotten the most attention, with entertainers and creative artists -- including a certified class of 27,000 songwriters and music publishers -- casting it as a life-or-death struggle over theft of their means of livelihood.
The 9th Circuit last August acknowledged that a "vast majority" of the downloads violate copyright law, but because there are also "substantial noninfringing uses," Grokster and StreamCast should not be held liable unless it could be shown that they knew about the infringement.
www.law.com /jsp/ltn/pubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1111781919266   (2027 words)

  
 CBS News | Gitmo Trials Hit Roadblock | November 11, 2004 14:12:39
If the Guantanamo detainees are ultimately determined to be prisoners of war entitled to trial by court-martial, they would have available to them different standards for evidence and could appeal up to the Supreme Court.
Justice Department spokesman Mark Corallo said the government would appeal the ruling on the grounds that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to members or affiliates of al Qaeda.
After Monday's ruling was passed to him in a note, the commission's presiding officer in Guantanamo, Army Col. Peter E. Brownback, issued an indefinite recess without explanation.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/11/11/terror/main655191.shtml   (959 words)

  
 The Mafia in New Jersey - La Cosa Nostra - State of New Jersey Commission of Investigation 1989 Report - The ...
Amuso and Casso assumed leadership of the group as a result of the indictment and recent convictions of the entire former New York hierarchy of the family.
Corallo was also convicted, along with the bosses of the four other New York LCN families, for participation in mob operations and being a member of the LCN's ruling "Commission."
The faction had long been under the control of Anthony "Tumac" Accetturo of Newark and Taccetta had been his protege.
www.mafianj.com /sci89/lucchese.shtml   (1496 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Anthony J. McHugh (2002), chairperson and professor of chemical engineering.
O Anthony P. O’Brien (1987, 1998), professor of economics.
Anthony Viscardi (1992, 1998), associate professor of art and architecture.
www.lehigh.edu /~incat/04-05CatSecVII.doc   (10844 words)

  
 On The Lookout For Suspicious Activity - www.ezboard.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
They were on their way to internships at a hospital - which then revoked their job offers out of fear that mere suspicion could endanger the men's safety.
Whatever the outcome, says Mark Corallo, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, both tipsters did the right thing.
As part of the emphasis on homeland security, Corallo says: "We are asking the American people to be more vigilant.
p069.ezboard.com /fjazzyrosefrm117.showMessage?topicID=119.topic   (2082 words)

  
 All about Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters, by Anthony Bruno
Jimmy Hoffa was supposed to be meeting Detroit mobster Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone and New Jersey labor leader Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano, who also happened to be a made member of the Genovese crime family.
The reason for this meeting, Hoffa believed, was to discuss his intention to run for the presidency of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and regain the powerful position he had lost after his 1964 convictions for jury tampering, conspiracy, and mail and wire fraud.
Joe Giacalone claimed that he had lent the car to a friend that day, a teamster named Charles “Chuckie” O’Brien, who was very close to the Hoffa family and had actually lived with the Hoffas at one time.
origin-www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/famous/jimmy_hoffa   (1282 words)

  
 La Cosa Nostra: The-Sopranos.com
A criminal since 1929 Corallo spent a lot of his life behind bars.
He became boss in 1974 but was involved in a scandal with politicans from major parties.
Streetboss Alphonse "Little Al" D'Arco, underboss Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, and former capo Peter "Fat Pete" Chiodo.
www.the-sopranos.com /lcn/lucchese.htm   (469 words)

  
 Lucchese Crime Family Epic
A New York City police detective who worked undercover as a garment manufacturer, explained-“If you ask for certain favours, one of the conditions is that you put one or two names on your payroll.
What Thomas Lucchese introduced into the Garment District in the early 1930’s was a crime tool of great effect that was still being used over thirty years later by one of his successors, Anthony Corallo.
The only difference was that while Lucchese was corrupting and manipulating an industry, Corallo went straight for the jugular, into the office of the Mayor of New York.
www.dark-horse.co.uk /gangsters/lucchese/9.htm   (1428 words)

  
 The Lufthansa Heist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Witnesses who had seen the two men in the van with their ski masks off provided details to a police sketch artist and composite drawings appeared in the newspaper two days after the theft.
The newspaper reported that Anthony Rodriquez, a friend of Angelo Sepe, was also considered a suspect.
Corallo are both receiving tribute from the proceeds of the crime.
tripleoakkennel.com /dk/Mob/lufthansa_heist.htm   (11330 words)

  
 grim amusements / April 5, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In an opinion by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the Supreme Court sharply criticized both the Texas courts and the lower federal courts for ignoring strong evidence of racial bias in the selection of the nearly all-white jury that found a fl Texas man, Thomas Miller-El, guilty of murder 17 years ago.
The 6-3 decision striking down the law was written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, who said the statute was too broad and was unconstitutional.
Mark Corallo, deputy director of Justice’s Office of Public Affairs, told the Center his office was unaware of the draft.
after-words.org /grim/mtarchives/2003/02/index.shtml   (11109 words)

  
 The Conservative Unitarian Universalist
The spokesman, Mark Corallo, said it would be illegal only if a library destroyed records that had been subpoenaed by the F.B.I. Ms.
Turner, the library director here, said librarians did not want to help terrorists, but she said other values were at stake as well.
"She is also in league with Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other trailblazing women who refused to chose between women and unborn children," said FFL President Serrin Foster.
www.geocities.com /conservativeuu/news.html   (4524 words)

  
 MARY JO WHITE
In 1988, Vic Amuso, who became boss of the Luchese Family after the imprisonment of Anthony Corallo, appointed me to be the caporegome of my crew after Paul Vario's death.
After Anthony Corallo's imprisonment in 1986, and Paul Vario's death in 1988, Jocko Vario and "Big Mike" LaBarbera were required to kick back 50% of the money they received from union-related illegal activities.
After Vic Amuso and Anthony Casso "went on the lam" and I became the acting boss, Dominick Truscello, as head of the Luchese Family's construction panel, supervised the Luchese Family's interests at Local 66.
www.laborers.com /DARCO.html   (3313 words)

  
 Justices block Internet porn law - Spam, Scams & Viruses - MSNBC.com
The year’s marquee cases involving presidential power to deal with suspected terrorists were announced Monday and for the most part represented a loss for the Bush administration.
Justice Department spokesman Mark Corallo denounced the ruling.
The majority, led by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, said there may have been important technological advances in the five years since a federal judge blocked the law.
msnbc.msn.com /id/5324463   (1036 words)

  
 Nearly Complete List of the Best & Worst Must See Horror and Sci-Fi films of all-time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The film opens with Wong (Anthony Wong Chau-sang) fleeing Hong Kong after setting alight a fellow mah-jong player during a major case of sour grapes.
Anthony Wong won best actor for his effort as the sociopathic cannibal restaurateur.
As the husband and wife and baby dinosaur are united at last in their attempts to survive, the next step is to recapture Mom dinosaur and get away from the army and Kiviat, not an easy feat.
www.gdarkness.com /movies_b.html   (6773 words)

  
 Judge strikes down part of Patriot Act - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - September 30, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Justice Department did not immediately comment on the ruling by Judge Marrero, an appointee of President Clinton.
The FBI had power to issue NSLs prior to the Patriot Act's passage in the wake of September 11.
ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero said the ruling was "especially important" in light of efforts in Congress to further increase law enforcement powers by passing Patriot Act II.
www.washingtontimes.com /national/20040929-111541-6912r.htm   (577 words)

  
 Before there was ever a Tony Soprano – or a Don Corleone for that matter – there was Rico xxx
And the case against Anthony Accardo, who became the Chicago Mob boss in 1975 after Sam Giancana was killed, could have been aided by using RICO, FBI agents would later say, but nothing was ever put together.
The defendants included Genovese family head Anthony Salerno; Gambino family boss Paul Castellano; Bonanno family boss Phillp Rastelli; Lucchese family boss Anthony Corallo; Gambino underboss Aniello Dellacroce; Lucchese underboss Salvotore Santoro; and Ralph Scopo, a member of the Colombo family and the president of the Concrete Workers District Council.
In November 1986, the defendants were convicted of 17 racketeering acts and 20 related charges of extortion, labor payoffs and loan sharking.
www.publications.villanova.edu /Concept/2003/Gordon%20Formatted%20Paper.htm   (4562 words)

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