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   In 2005, the Justice Department accused Daggett of being an “associate” of   
   the Genovese crime family – one of the “Five Families” of the US Mafia.   
      
   Daggett took the witness stand that year after federal prosecutors charged   
   him with racketeering.   
      
   He described himself as a target of the mob – though a turncoat Mafia   
   member had testified Daggett was under the mob’s thumb, The New York Times   
   reported.   
      
   During the course of the trial, one of Daggett’s co-defendants – Lawrence   
   Ricci, an alleged major mob figure – disappeared. His body was found weeks   
   later decomposing in the trunk of a car outside a New Jersey diner.   
      
   Ricci’s death remained unsolved, though speculation circulated that he was   
   killed after refusing to plead guilty to avoid news reports of the trial.   
      
   Daggett was acquitted in two cases.   
      
   Over the years, Daggett has bad-mouthed the commission and called its   
   accusations of mob ties “total bulls–t” and a “dark, ugly attack on   
   Italian Americans.”   
      
   “It’s a damn tragedy for the Waterfront Commission to enjoy free rein and   
   target Italian Americans as part of their historic anti-worker campaign,”   
   Daggett said in 2022. “Let’s be real here. The Waterfront Commission has,   
   for decades, claimed good jobs went to only those with so-called ‘mob   
   ties.’”   
      
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