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|    05 Oct 24 11:17:26    |
      [continued from previous message]              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.’”              https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/how-did-50k-dockworkers-strike-       at-us-ports-with-only-25k-jobs/ar-AA1rIBXK              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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