home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
TIME: Almanac 1990s
/
Time_Almanac_1990s_SoftKey_1994.iso
/
time
/
010289
/
01028900.023
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-03-25
|
2KB
|
42 lines
<text id=89TT0023>
<title>
Jan. 02, 1989: American Notes:The Mafia
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Jan. 02, 1989 Planet Of The Year:Endangered Earth
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 80
American Notes
THE MAFIA
Seems Like Old Crimes
</hdr><body>
<p> The Mob normally shuns publicity, but if gangsters cannot
stay out of the spotlight, it seems they have a fallback
position: they want a piece of the profitable action that
others may generate from their crimes. The FBI has learned that
East Coast racketeers are demanding a cut of the earnings from
a proposed film about the life of Meyer Lansky, the Mafia's
legendary financial genius who died in 1983.
</p>
<p> The apparent extortion scheme suggests that the current
intrigue between the Mob and Hollywood may be every bit as spicy
as it was in Lansky's heyday. MCA, Inc., the conglomerate
seeking video rights to the movie, has suspended Eugene
Giaquinto, president of its Home Entertainment Group, following
reports that the FBI was investigating his possible ties to
organized crime. For at least a year, FBI agents have been
tapping the phones of Giaquinto and others in the industry who
were heard discussing contacts with mobsters like New York's
Gambino-family boss, John Gotti. The eavesdroppers have
listened to talk about films being made with laundered Mob
money. A widening investigation is under way.
</p>
</body></article>
</text>