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The cop they call the mob's mole

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New York City police detective William Peist has been indicted for passing confidential information to convicted organized crime figure John Gotti during his 1990 trial. Peist's mob connections were discovered by a Federal Bureau of Investigation wire-tapping operation.

Author: Blum, Howard
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1992
Cases, Biography, New York, New York, Law enforcement officers, Organized crime, Police corruption, Gotti, John, Peist, William

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The reluctant Don

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Former Mob Underboss Sammy Gravano narrates the story of how US' Cosa Nostra collapsed. He believes that the fall of the mob family business started when John Grotti was imprisoned in 1998 and was forced to hail his incompetent son, John Grotti Jr, his successor.

Author: Blum, Howard
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Vanity Fair
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0733-8899
Year: 1999
Personal narratives, Behavior, Mafia, Gravano, Salvatore

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The great call of China: a life's odyssey goes on the auction block

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More than 700 pieces of rare Chinese blue-and-white porcelain collected by Myron S. Falk, Jr., and Pauline Baerwald Falk, since 1937, will be auctioned at Christie's Sept 20 and 21.

Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
United States, China, Ceramic tableware, Collections and collecting, Chinese art, Ceramic sculpture, Art, Chinese, Falk, Myron S., Jr., Falk, Pauline Baerwald

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