Friday, Nov. 8, 1985
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Mob threats entered in trial
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — San Diego businssman Allen R. Glick testified yesterday that mob kingpin Nick Civivala threatened him and withheld loans from a Teamsters union pension fund because Glick failed to honor an agreement.
Glick testified a second day in the trial of eight reputed organized crime figures accused of skimming more than $2 million from Las Vegas casinos owned by Glick's Argent Corp. in the early and mid-1970s.
On trial are Frank Balistriet, 17,
and his sons, John, 37, and Joseph P.
45, all of Milwaukee; John Alupa,
77, John Cerone, 71, Joseph Lombardo,
66, and Angelo LaPietra, 60, all of
Chicago; and Milton Rockman, 73, of
Cleveland.
Carl Angelo DeLuma, 88, of Kansas City, was dropped Wednesday from the trial, apparently after entering a plea in the case.
Prosecutors claimed the defendants used their influence in the Teamsters union to get a $62.75 million loan approved by the union's Central States Pension Fund for Glick, who then bought Las Vegas casinos, Glick, prosecutors alleged, became the "victim" and unknowing partner of underwater figures after the first loan and a second were made.
The federal government alleged the defendants then skimmed gambling profits and divided the money between mob figures in Las Vegas, Kansas City, Chicago, Milwaukee and Cleveland.
Glick testified that the elder Balistrieri became his contact in arranging for the loans from the Teamsher's pension fund. A short time later, according to Glick, Balistrieri forced Glick through threats to promote Frank Rosenthal, a casino employee at the time, to an executive position in the Argent Corp. He also said that within a short time Rosenthal was forcing important executive decisions on Glick.
In March 1975, Glick testified, Rosenthal instructed Glick to attend a meeting at a Kansas City hotel with Civella, who died of cancer in 1983. He said the meeting was his first introduction to Civella, and that it was undertaken in an "interrogation-like" setting.
"You don't know me, but it would
be my choice that you never leave this room alive." Glick quoted Civella as saying. Glick said Civella later told him that if he cooperated, he "may" survive.
He said Civella told him that if he didn't accept Civella's authority, then Glick would get the message "by bullet."
Glick also testified that Civella told him not to interfere with Rosenthal. Civella said he would cut off future loans from the pension fund to show his authority, Glick added.
"Civella said since I did not acknowledge nor honor ... the partnership or understanding . . . I would not receive additional funding," Glick said.
Officials may restore old plant
Prisons trying to cut food costs
United Press International
TOPEKA — Kansas prison officials are exploring the possibility of buying a closed meat-processing plant near Oskaloosa and using inmate labor to process beef and pork for state prisons.
The plant is owned by the State Bank of Oskaloosa, which obtained the facility through foreclosure.
Larry Bowser, bank president. said the bank has offered to sell the old Sholin Meat Processing plant
and its 18-acre site for $185,000, or 38
acres and the plant for $175,000.
Corrections officials said it would be cheaper to slaughter and process cattle and hogs from the Kansas State Penitentiary farm at Lansing at a state-owned meat plant rather than continue to buy meat on a contract basis through private firms.
Richmond Mills, secretary of the Kansas Department of Corrections, said the plant would provide jobs for about 25 minimum- and medium-security inmates at the Lansing institution. If the state buys the plant,
he said, the inmates will make the daily ride to Oskaloosa, about 30 miles west of the prison.
Mills discussed the proposed purchase earlier this week with the Special Legislative Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
Mills said about five prison employees would be needed to supervise the inmates. He also said a security fence would have to be constructed around the plant.
He plans to present the proposal to the Joint Legislative Committee on
State Building Construction later this month.
Asserting that the price of the plant is negotiable, Mills said it would be much less expensive to buy an existing plant than to build a new one.
Construction on the plant was completed in 1977, and it oper.ted until February 1984. Bowser said the bank assumed the plant in a July 1984 foreclosure.
Oskaloosa Mayor Jim Swoyer Jr. said he favored the idea of the proposed purchase of the plant.
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