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- <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
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Cellular-phone traces lead the FBI to a feared Mafia boss, in
- the shower
- </p>
- <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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- </body>
- </article>
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