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- <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>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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