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wrm 1VWHM 9 t * * •£» *» if i|i»| 179 9 I’rwil 1*1military parlance i« an acceptable attrition rate But i* ft acceptable un the highways?Inside LaborWhy Was Rackets : Prober Shut up?By VICTOR RiESiLW ASHINGTQN. D C —“t n Carlo*' Gimbint), sire of a Com Nostra family ' is a medical miracle man Me has short order heart attacks whenever the authorities want to question him But he always recoversAt M he is an elegantly polished millionaire living in a mansion.However, even his disciplined heart must have pal* p ’ated when he heard that Henry (Pete) Peterson, ch.e? of the Justice Dept’s Organized Crime and Rack* ficenng section, told a Presidential crime panel that gome teamsters longshoremen and the Mafiosi syndicates have been co-ordinating their activities foryearsPete non was turned aside by the panel chairmen. Later he w as ordered to shut up He did What hecould have told reporters—and didn’t—was that Carlo Gambino is the Mr Big * of these allied transportation fields Pfe Petersen, and such crusading prosecutors as Bob M rgenthau, US attorney for New York’s S uthem district, long have had reasonable evidence of such gargantuan control.Of I'Hirse, there have been links—social and profes-s mal—between s me powerful Teamsters and Longshoremen and the Cosa Nostra by way of Gambino.He Hiiiaslied ( nionn, TooSo darmg did Gambino become that he organized a labor relations service in mid-Manhattan known asSGS He smashed unions as well as controlled them. His power, it should now be revealed, runs from NewYork harbor down along the Virginia waterfront to some Gulf portsIn his own syndicate are some Teamsters, one ofwhom was convicted two years ago on 25 counts ofextortion, but went free under a suspended sentenceand a $21,000 fine—to be p,».d on the installment planSo why was Pete Peterson told to be quiet? The answer is awaitedAs for links between some Teamsters and some Longshoremen and the underworld, there ts the case of muscle for hire—Harold (Kayo) Konigsberg.Lor a long time he was a friend and operator for Teamstrrs vice president and convicted extortioner Tony (“Pro) Provenzano, now part of Jimmy Hoffa’sgovernment in-exile in the Lewtsburg penitentiary Kayo and Pro had offices almost opposite each other. They worked well together. Over in Newark,N I , muscle was in heavy demandKonigsberg now is singing—a fact which leaked because at least one prosecutor got hungry for headlines. It was Konigsberg who told the FBI about the Mafia cemetery and at least 10 bodies of which only two were found.It Hill Be Big StoryKayo has been talking for a long time When th'*se stories and indictments break, the lid will go right through the polluted air And they will bolster what Pete Peterson said tersely and kmtws in depth.As for Teamsters and the Cosa Nostra, Peterson isright- There sit tlsg. j ?TIt is fact that Hoffa was close to the Dioguardia clan. He once offered Johnny Dio any job this Cosa Nostra ex-convict wanted in the Teamsters Hoffa mingled with Frankie Dai, who now is doing 15 years on a narcotics rap.Hoffa worked closely with his aide and ally, Teamster official Joey Glimco, about whom it was testified that he was one of the most prominent men in theechelon which rules the Chicago syndicateIt was not only the Cosa Nostra which criss-crossed the Teamsters.In all there have been 49 criminals—a gentle word for some of them—whose activities intertwined with those of Hoffa or other Teamsters leaders.These are not Damon Runyon characters They’re flesh and hlood— and have mangled and spilled much of it in their time Pete Peterson says they’re still around—walking free, coordinating, amalgamating.Why?shethis or twanSflfhis IOhke\hersvitalwillyou*manInte* handtv bthevfifte sou I theDrthisdtmlt;sedOf ITMenQUQposichilimgstanAbeaiiwiryeato 5NewbonMMtwirwerQt«ebriasdenAsargicimuifewlac!buytoveaaskandanversto iQinulike(MA0|J|]
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Port Arthur News
Port Arthur, Texas, US
Thu, Apr 06, 1967
Page 4
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