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Small fish led FBI to big pond: tapeBy Mary Sue PennDuring a conversation with a police officer posing as a crooked cop in 1985, a gambling business operator who described himself as “a small fish unknowingly led the FBI to the “big fish” - reputed mobsters from the South Suburbs and Northwest Indiana.The police officer was wired with a body recorder. His taped conversation with the gambling operator was played in federal court in Hammond, Ind., Thursday in the trial of Dominick “Tootsie” Palermo, 73, of Or-land Park, Nicholas “Jumbo” Guz-zino, 50, of Chicago Heights, and four others.The six are charged with conspiring to control profits from illegal gambling in Northwest Indiana by shaking down the operators for monthly payments known as “street taxes.”In the tape played Thursday, convicted gambling business operator A1 Watkins claimed that his former partner in an illegal lottery, Tony Leone, is with the Mafia“I’ve seen things, which I’m not gonna tell you, but I’ve seen payoffs,”■ See TRIAL. Page A-2
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Calumet City Star
Calumet City, Illinois, US
Sun, Aug 11, 1991
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