Jury acquits mafia defendant who vanished

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Associated Press in New York
Wednesday November 9, 2005
The Guardian


Two executives of the International Longshoremen's Association, and a reputed mobster who went missing mid-trial, were acquitted yesterday of charges that they helped the mafia keep its grip on the New York waterfront.

A federal jury in Brooklyn found union officials Harold Daggett and Arthur Coffey not guilty of extortion and fraud charges.

It also acquitted Lawrence Ricci, an alleged Genovese crime family associate who had been accused of working to award a union contract to a pharmaceutical company with mafia links. It is suspected that he has been killed by the mob.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1637195,00.html

[AlCzervik]

1. Went missing=wacked. Sleeping with the fishes

[anotherdrew]

5. yes, most likely

[saigon68]

2. Wierd

[anotherdrew]

3. wait - the mafia has a grip on the new york waterfront? where's the FBI?

Surely they can do more than harass two longshoremen? Sounds like a national security issue to me.

[Dr.Phool]

4. Was Alito the prosecutor in this case too?