University Daily Kansan / Thursday, January 15, 1987
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3 national Mafia bosses get 100-year sentences
United Press International
NEW YORK — Three Mafia bosses who helped run a commission that directed the underworld's murders, loansharking and racketeering from the bootleg days of Al Capone to the present were sentenced Tuesday to 100 years each in prison.
The government hailed its most successful attempt yet to crush the mob, the first time it has obtained bona fides convictions against Mafia bosses.
"These are human beings who make their living by taking the lives of other human beings and by destroying the lives of other human beings," U.S. Attorney Rudolph Gulliani said.
Five underbosses also were sentenced to up to 100 years for their roles in organized crime that earned them the denunciation as "the most vicious criminals in the United States" when they were convicted Nov. 19.
Authorities said the commission was organized in 1931 by Charles "Lucky" Luciano, who was acting to end gang warfare that had resulted in more than 40 deaths in two days in September of that year
after the imprisonment of Chicago gangster Al Capone for tax evasion.
The criminals heard their stiff sentences and heavy fines imposed by Judge Richard Owen in a packed U.S. District courtroom.
Giuliani said their chances for parole were highly unlikely, although they would be eligible in 10 years. For most of the defendants, the sentence is effectively a life term, even though they must be released after serving 66 years, or two-thirds of their sentences.
Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno, 75,
leader of the Genovese crime
family and authorized by to be
the richest U.S. gangster, was
sentenced to 100 years and fined
$240.000.
Owen told Salerno. "You sir, in my opinion, essentially spent a lifetime terrorizing this community for your financial advantage."
"for your financial advantage." Colombo family don Carmine "Junior" Persico, also was sentenced to 100 years in prison and fined $240,000. The head of the Lucchese family, Anthony "Tony Ducks" Coralho, 73, was given a century of imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
Colombo family underboss Genaro "Gerry Lang" Langella, 7, who helped run the family during Persico's many years in prison for other convictions, received a 100-word sentence and a $240,000 fee.
One of their five henchmen,
All eight men, convicted for a total of 17 racketeering charges and 20 related crimes, are appealing the verdict.
The other four underbasses included Ralph Scopo, 58, a Colombo family soldier and former president of the Cement Workers District Council. He was sentenced to 100 years and fined $240,000.
Salvatore "Tom Mix" Santore,
72, a Lucchese family underboss,
and Christopher "Christie Tick"
Furnari, 62, a counselor of the
Lucchese family, both were sentenced to 100 years and fined $240,000 each.
Anthony "Bruno" Indicato, 38,
was sentenced to a maximum
40 years, with a recommendation
for no parole, and fined $50,000.
Indelicato was the only defendant named in murders "authorized" by the commission. He was convicted of helping carry out the July 1979 hit of Bonanno boss Carmine Galante.
Man dying of AIDS to marry wife; church honors couple's request
United Press International
NEW YORK — A marriage ceremony between a man dying of AIDS and his wife at St. Patrick's Cathedral that was initially deemed impermissible may take place in the next few weeks, church officials said Tuesday.
David Hefner, who sought permission of Catholic Church authorities to marry his wife, Maria, 33, in the spectacular Fifth Avenue cathedral and fulfill her dream, said Tuesday he was very happy with the church's decision.
"It it's what we want and what we need." Hefner, who had been hospitalized with a stroke,
But he said he hoped people's feelings about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrom victims would change.
The couple, who took their first vows in a civil ceremony three years ago, would like the reaffirmation ceremony to be held on St. Valentine's Day, said Hefner.
"I hope in the future there'll be a little better treatment of AIDS patients. There are so many changes in our lives." Hefner said, speaking from his hospital bed at New York University Medical Center. "If we can go to the church, it's nice. It makes it better."
through the wringer for a day or two,
said Feiner, 38, who said he was
formerly a homosexual. But, he said
he was not angered by the initial
response.
"I have other things to be angry about," said Hefner.
Plans for the ceremony have not been made as yet, said Hefner, a
The church's original denial put us
I hope in the future there'll be a little better treatment of AIDS patients. There are so many changes in our lives.'
David Hefner AIDS victim
of prematral instruction because of his condition.
hairdresser who said his wife, who was born in Brazil, was a client of his before their marriage.
The Rev. Gerald McGovern, pastor of Our Lady of the Scapular, in lower Manhattan, where the couple resides, said there was a possibility Hefner could be married in a few weeks, skipping the usual six months
The marriage can take place after the couple understands certain church principles, said McGovern, who said he will counsel the couple.
“Our concern, aside from their being able to deal with church legal matters, is that they understand how a Catholic means,” McGovern said.
Hefner's wife was born and raised as a Catholic and Hefner is Protestant, he said. The couple approached Jesse Williams with a picture just before Christmas, he said.
The couple's initial request for the marriage at the cathedral was denied by Msgr. James Rigney, the cathedral's rector, who said the couple needed special counseling that would be provided by their local parish priests, said Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York.
Special counseling is required before marriage when one partner is suffering from a life-threatening disease like AIDS, he said.
"There was never any question
that his couple could receive a
Catholic baptism."
Cardinal John O'Connor, who has been outspoken against homosexual relationships, reviewed the request and gave permission for the marriage Saturday.
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