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Gibson retiring; Sawyer taking over 'World News'
The Swamp, Chicago TribuneAnother anchorman steps down. Another anchorwoman steps up. ABC News has announced that Charles Gibson, anchor of the evening World News since May 2006, will leave the chair at year's end and retire from the network. Taking his place: Diane Sawyer...Tags: Queen Noor of Jordan, Robert F. Kennedy, Ellen DeGeneres, Government, Louisville
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Boulis slaying investigation loses impetus
Sun-SentinelFirst published on Sunday, February 3, 2002. When Gus Boulis' whirlwind life ended in a hail of bullets, a tempest erupted. Family and friends of the Greek millionaire blamed Adam Kidan, his rival in SunCruz Casinos. Those same allies forced Kidan out...Tags: Florida, Personal Service, Hollywood (Broward, Florida), Washington, DC, Food Industry
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Players in the Boulis case
Sun-SentinelThe seller KONSTANTIN "GUS" BOULIS: Was trying to take back control of SunCruz when he was gunned down the night of Feb. 6. 2001 in Fort Lauderdale. As a teenager, Boulis jumped a Greek freighter to Canada in 1968, got a job washing dishes at a Toronto...Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Florida, George Washington University, Hollywood (Broward, Florida), Miami Subs Corporation
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Pellicano lawyers target FBI agent
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAttorneys for Anthony Pellicano are mounting a new legal attack to strip the prosecution of its most potent evidence, contending that an FBI agent concealed information and then lied about it to convince a judge to let him search the Hollywood private...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Vehicles, Washington, DC, Organized Crime, Los Angeles
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Seagal's court brawl wraps
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAfter six years of legal sniping, actor Steven Seagal and his former business partner, Julius R. Nasso, buried the hatchet Sunday, ending a bitter court battle that had spawned allegations of contract breach and Mafia extortion. As a result of the...Tags: Hawaii, Staten Island (New York City), Elkton, Los Angeles Times, Blackmail and Extortion
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Is it Lucky timing?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBefore Tony Soprano or Don Corleone or Tony Montana there was Lucky Luciano -- the real-life patriarch of modern organized crime. Luciano was the Sicilian immigrant who rose to power in the Mafia in the U.S. in the 1920s and transformed it into a...Tags: Little Italy (Manhattan, New York), Theresa Russell, Prince (music artist), Wars and Interventions, Blackmail and Extortion
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'Junior' Gotti Case Moved to NY
Just in time for Christmas. A Florida federal judge has transferred the latest racketeering case against John "Junior" Gotti back to New York, saying that the interests of justice call for such a move as a way of preventing Gotti from suffering...Tags: Old Westbury, Florida, Judges, Manhattan (New York City), New York
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Two Members of Gambino Crime Family Charged in 1989 Murder
NEW YORK, N.Y. (WPIX) -- Two big time members of the Gambino crime family were indicted Wednesday for the murder of a real estate developer who crime boss John Gotti believed was a snitch. On Sept. 11, 1989, Staten Island real estate developer Fred Weiss...Tags: New Springville, Staten Island (New York City), Manhattan (New York City), Crimes, Death
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Mobster sends note about using metal shredder
Convicted mobster Carmine Agnello has made the city an offer he hopes it won't refuse. In a letter to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Agnello, a reputed member of the Gambino crime family and the son-in-law of jailed don John Gotti, offered the use of his...Tags: Defense, John Gotti, Crime, Law and Justice, National Security, Crimes
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11/4/1994: 13 Arrested; Crime Family Had Gambling, Loans In City, Officials Say
The Hartford CourantThirteen members of the Genovese crime family from Connecticut and Massachusetts have been indicted on racketeering charges of running illegal gambling and loan- sharking operations in the Hartford area. Among those indicted was Anthony Volpe, 62, of...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Blackmail and Extortion, Wethersfield, Organized Crime
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