The Nation - News from Nov. 7, 1986
The mob’s ruling council has controlled crime since the 1930s and ran the entire concrete construction industry in New York City, a prosecutor said in closing arguments in the trial of eight Mafia bosses and associates. Assistant U.S. Atty. John Savarese summed up the government’s case, which has included some 85 witnesses. The defense begins its final arguments Monday. The indictment charges that the commission operated as a racketeering enterprise involved in loan shark operations, bribery and extortion.
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