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<text id=93TT2411>
<title>
Feb. 01, 1993: High but Not Dry
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Feb. 01, 1993 Clinton's First Blunder
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK
NATION, Page 17
High but Not Dry
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<p>Cellular-phone traces lead the FBI to a feared Mafia boss, in
the shower
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<p> The moment was more Marx Brothers than classic Mafia. Wrapped
in a bath towel at his wooded redoubt near Mount Olive, New
Jersey, fugitive Anthony Salvatore Casso, 52, one of the nation's
most feared Mafia leaders, surrendered--hands up high, dripping
wet--to an FBI SWAT team. Cracked one agent: "He didn't have his
gun in the shower like in the spaghetti westerns." Federal
agents say that Casso, a Lucchese family underboss street-named
"Gaspipe" (possibly because of his blowtorch safecracking
skills), was hated within the crime family because of his
penchant for ordering hits simply because a fellow mobster
annoyed him. "We felt that some of the tips were coming from the
Luccheses," says FBI agent Donald North, who supervises
organized-crime investigations in New York City. "The family
wanted him off the street." The elusive Casso was on the run
from federal racketeering charges. During the don's 32 months
underground, prosecutors charge, he ordered at least seven
murders--many over the phone. Appropriately, FBI agents traced
Casso through his cellular-telephone calls transmitted through
a radio tower near his hideout.
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