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For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. No one seems able to fix a lack of development in the Mezzogiorno Pointing to the barren coast in front of Fiat's Sicilian factory, Luigi Purpi says: "We had fantastic beaches here. We surrendered them for industrial progress, and now what?" Purpi, the mayor of Termini Imerese, has joined with unions to fight a plan to shut Fiat's 32-year-old plant, shedding 1800 jobs in a region that has three times the national unemployment average of 9 per cent. Fiat's proposal to cut a total of 8100 jobs to stem losses at...

A celebrity private detective linked to a bizarre harassment episode against a Los Angeles Times reporter involving actor Steven Seagal ( news) and the Mafia was released from a federal jail on bail on Wednesday in an unrelated illegal weapons possession case. U.S. Magistrate Judge Fernando Olguin rejected prosecutors' argument that Anthony Pellicano, 58, represented a public threat because he had two live grenades and enough plastic explosives to blow up an airliner in a safe in his office, and ordered Pellicano released on $400,000 bond. Pellicano's list of clients read like a Who's Who in Hollywood over the past...

By Gina Keating LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Action star Steven Seagal (news) and a Los Angeles private detective were linked on Friday to a bizarre harassment episode against a Los Angeles Times reporter probing alleged links between Seagal and the Mafia. Reuters Photo Anthony Pellicano, private eye to the stars, was charged on Friday with possessing illegal weapons after the FBI (news - web sites) searched his Los Angeles office for evidence that he hired an ex-convict suspected of threatening Times reporter Anita Busch in June. According to an affidavit by FBI Special Agent Stanley Ornellas, Pellicano hired 59-year-old Alexander...

Actor Steven Seagal has been linked to threats directed at a Los Angeles Times reporter investigating the action star's relationship to a Mafia figure, according to federal court records. The explosive allegation is contained in an October 17 FBI affidavit filed in support of a government bid to search the Los Angeles home of Alexander Proctor, a 59-year-old ex-con who has been charged with threatening Times writer Anita Busch. The 21-page FBI affidavit--a key excerpt of which you'll find below [SEE LINK]--alleges that Proctor told a bureau informant (in tape-recorded conversations) that Seagal hired him through Anthony Pellicano, a noted...

<p>Well, that's not entirely true. In some ways, we knew way too much about you. (Two words: cheese grater.) But here are the essentials: You were vain, you were crude, you were violent, you weren't nearly as clever as you thought you were, and in death you finally brought this fourth season of "The Sopranos" to vivid, sickening life.</p>

It is a well known fact that there are scores of computer professionals who have been laid off and are out of work in this country. Those positions include software engineers, network engineers, and electrical engineers. Those who have lost their jobs in the past 24 months know what I am talking about. We all know WHY we've been laid off. It is because indentured servants from other lands have overrun our country with the help of Congress due to the false premise of a labor shortage by IT industry lobbyists. Here we have an opportunity to "layoff" those who...

Roberto Calvi, the Italian banker who was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge, London in 1982, did not commit suicide but was murdered, Italian magistrates have concluded. Calvi was known as "God's banker" because he was head of the Vatican-controlled Banco Ambrosiano. The findings of a four-year investigation officially support long-held suspicions that Calvi was killed after fleeing Rome, where he faced arrest, for London in an attempt to save his foundering bank. The investigation, based on forensic tests on Calvi's exhumed body, is likely to strengthen the suspicions of Rome magistrates that he was the victim of a plot involving...

Friday, 25 October, 2002, 17:18 GMT 18:18 UK Vatican's banker 'was murdered'Calvi's body was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge A top financier found hanging from a bridge in London 20 years ago was murdered, forensic experts appointed by judges in Rome to investigate the death have reportedly said. According to media reports, the panel said Roberto Calvi, who was nicknamed God's Banker because of his close ties to the Vatican, could not have killed himself as originally suggested. They said his neck showed no evidence of the injuries usually associated with death by hanging and his hands had never touched...

Informant: Top cop mob-friendly Wednesday, October 16, 2002 By WENDY RUDERMAN AND CLINT RILEY Trenton Bureau A confidential informant linked to organized crime told a state police investigator that he feared for his life if Newark Public Safety Director Joseph Santiago became the state police superintendent, state police documents show. On Jan. 11, the day Governor-elect James E. McGreevey announced his intention to nominate Santiago for the state police post, the informant told an investigator that he was afraid Santiago would have access to state police files on informants. "I'm dead if he sees who I am," the informant told...

"I haven't been to Las Vegas in a few years, but I remember it fondly," Trentino said. "A friendly place, garish, of course, but I don't mind garish.""Friendly? A crocodile smile," said Ian. "All they want is your money." "Well, of course, it's all they want. In my book that's a plus..." More

I'm From New JerseyBy John Gorka I'm from New Jersey I don't expect too much If the world ended today I would adjust I'm from New Jersey No I don't talk that way I watched too much TV When I was young I'm from New Jersey My mom's Italian I've read those mafia books We don't belong There are girls from New Jersey Who have that great big hair They're found in shopping malls I will take you there I'm from New Jersey It's not like Texas There is no mystery I can't pretend I'm from New Jersey It's like...

ebuffed by their own top state court, New Jersey Republicans appealed to the United States Supreme Court today to overturn a ruling that allowed Democrats to replace Senator Robert G. Torricelli's name on the Nov. 5 ballot.Senator William Frist of Tennessee, chairman of the Senate Republican campaign committee, delivered the request by hand to the Supreme Court this morning.The New Jersey Supreme Court cleared the way on Wednesday for former Senator Frank R. Lautenberg to enter the race in place of Mr. Torricelli, who abruptly quit on Monday after a campaign dominated by questions about his ethics. "It is...

Subject: Torricelli's Illegal Contributions Detailed in Chang's Sentencing Memo - - Chang is NOT the liar Torricelli says he is Prosecutors Say Chang Advanced Torricelli Probe Newly Released Document Outlines Illegal Contributions POSTED: 4:44 p.m. EDT September 26, 2002 UPDATED: 7:19 p.m. EDT September 26, 2002 NEWARK, N.J. -- A federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled Thursday that a sentencing memo describing illegal gifts to U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli must be made public immediately. RELATED INFO:5K Letter: Read Excerpts5K Letter: Read It All FeedRoom Court Releases Torricelli Memo The document outlines businessman David Chang's cooperation with the federal prosecutors....

<p>TRENTON -- A memo released Thursday by a federal judge showed that David Chang traveled to New York shops and poured over credit card records with federal prosecutors to corroborate claims that he gave gifts to Democratic U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli.</p>

Ever since the birth of the organized Labor movement in the United States, Union officials have found friends and safe-harbors in the Democratic party. One of the side effects of this relationship has been the ability of Labor to gain unfettered access to the innermost workings of our government, and to establish their influence there most often to the detriment of all but their treasuries. While it is near impossible to determine the extent to which the Democratic leadership is firmly in the pocket of the Unions, some members stand out as being some of the most egregious and unabashed...

<p>September 18, 2002 -- FIFTY years ago today, the New York Post published an article that led to one of the most memorable speeches in American history and forever changed the nature of this nation's politics.</p> <p>Decades before Watergate, a furor over ethics almost ended the career of then-Sen. Richard Nixon. And his spectacular recovery has important lessons for New Jersey's Sen. Bob Torricelli, another pol fighting for his political life in the wake of an ethics mess.</p>

In 1996 Torricelli was caught on an FBI wiretap soliciting contributions over a telephone at a Florida pizza parlor under surveillance for suspected Mafia ties... http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_177.html http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/21700_wire05.shtml http://www.hench.net/2001/z050401a.htm http://torricelli.newstrove.com/ http://www.danielpipes.org/article/445/

<p>ALBANY -- Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Cuomo last year accepted $44,500 in campaign contributions from a movie producer accused of being a mob associate, according to a published report.</p> <p>Julius Nasso, producer of several Steven Seagal action films, his brother Vincent and their businesses wrote 11 checks to Cuomo's campaign, the New York Daily News reported in its Wednesday's editions.</p>

ESPN.com news services NEW YORK -- Admitted mobster Michael Franzese said this week on HBO's ''Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel'' that players who owed money to the Columbo crime family -- on a team he wouldn't identify -- fixed games in the 1970s. HBO reported the team in question was the Yankees, and Franzese said the Yankees back then ''had some gambling issues.'' Franzese did not directly identify the Yankees as the team he was describing, nor did he mention specific players by name. ''You got to work this out, get the money, borrow the money, do whatever you have...