Racketeering Probe Nets Reputed Mob Associates
Seven reputed associates of New York’s Genovese crime family were charged in a racketeering scheme on northern New Jersey’s waterfront docks, police said.
A probe of workers at two Jersey City docks documented a system of cash payoffs that had to be made to union bosses in order to get preferential, better-paying work assignments, authorities said.
The suspects include the president of International Longshoreman’s Assn. Local 1588 and other union officials.
All were charged with racketeering, extortion, bribery and conspiracy.
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