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Cosa Nostra FileAssembled in DriveWASHINGTON (AP) ~ The Justice Department disclosed Tuesday that ii has assembled a file of more than 200,000 individuals and businesses thought to be associated with the Cosanow is trying to systematize its approach to investigations of nationwide organized crime syndicates.He said the department with 54 U.S. attorneys, has neitherNostra crime syndicate in the The personnel nor the financial Uniled States. resources to investigate allThe file contains the names of 3,115 so-called principals — the most important crime figuresthose suspected of be mg associated with organized crime.He added that even taking and subjects of some kind of into account other federaUnves-mvcstigation — plus associatedlligative agencies with which the individuals and businesses that'Justice Department cooperates “number a rcuple or hundredi— including Secret Service, thousand/’ IFBl, Bureau of Customs, Inter-llcnry Peterson, head of the Inal Revenue Service - “wedepartment's organized crime couldnT^ police one major com-and racketeering section, saidjmumty.1 ^in an interview, however, thci Peterson Said^ investigative department has under active,techniques used in the past no investigation several hundred at;longer are adequate to reach most. He refused to disclose any deeply entrenched, organized: names except those already;crime. I Jidentified in the past hv Senate. His statements followed by a-rackets investigators. ' few days the report of the PresK JThe file is the result of SiX;^Nc™e commission which; ,years of work hv government said 'l V J: * tu 1 -power, drastic relorms and a investigators since the JusUcc P { d j juslicc; ;ner.artnu.nl■* organizedI mrno nimr. Iu control crime. : ,drive got under wav m 19G1. PelJrs()U Saif| crime ,yll0i-'Peterson said the department fales byV(, move(j jnto h,taor ;: unions — pension funds in par- -ticuiar — and such business enterprises as food products, real- l T\\ restaurants, garbage disjxis- ■ iiil produce, clothing mantifnr-J Jure and securities.In addition, they are heavily involved in gambling .and, loaning money at exhorhitanl interest rates which Peterson*d . ..... fThorp woro imlv 4.000 whitesPOWER TOOLResMl Servicem RfMTt• itftnpsan-UlliM• (mcfftt FshkfiW Mufti• Imaiiet Stuirt pri Cnftb• Wito Pm^fwKiw-Psw JJnlhO iBjBBKllBMBcalled their two biggest money makers.
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Victoria Advocate
Victoria, Texas, US
Wed, Feb 22, 1967
Page 20
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