by Gus Russo
29. Korshak SEC testimony, 287.
30. Newsweek, 6-2-69, 7-23-70.
31. Korshak SEC testimony, 288.
32. Ibid., 425.
33. Ibid., 384.
34. Memo from Winne to Edward Joyce, deputy chief, DOJ OC and Racketeering Section, 1-27-70 (#94-430 1823), Korshak file.
35. Korshak SEC testimony, 293, 385.
36. Wall Street Journal, 1-7-70.
37. Fortune, December 1969, 163.
38. Raw et al., Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich?, 4.
39. Messick, Lansky, 248.
40. See Basichis, Beautiful Bad Girl; and Milton and Bardach, Vicki.
41. The presence of Cornfeld (and mobsters) at the Towers is noted in Canadian intelligence reports in Operation Tradewinds files of investigator Sally Woodruff, supplied to author. For more on this operation, read Block, Masters of Paradise; see also Messick, Lansky, 263-64.
42. Raw et al., Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich?, 151.
43. Ibid., 242.
44. See Rinfret's Web log, rinfret.com/vesco; also, Herzog, Vesco, passim.
45. Drosnin, Citizen Hughes, 489.
46. The Lenzner-Maheu revelations appeared in a 60 Minutes (CBS) interview of 2-27-05; see also Drosnin, CitizenHughes, 5, 304, 489.
47. Wall Street Journal, 6-9-69.
48. Jill St. John, SEC testimony 8-21-69, 30-31.
49. New York Times, 6-29-76.
50. Wall Street Journal, 6-9-69; and Demaris, Last Mafioso, 319.
51. Chicago Daily News, 10-17-69; and Chicago Tribune, 10-18-69.
52. Sidney Korshak SEC testimony, 371-72.
53. Ibid., 401; also, Time, 10-24-69, and numerous New York Times articles in 1971.
54. Winter-Berger, Washington Pay-Off, 80; Miller, Breaking of a President, 284-87.
55. Miller, Breaking of a President, 286.
56. Korshak SEC testimony, 356-57, 410.
57. Winter-Berger, Washington Pay-Off, 80.
58. Drosnin, Citizen Hughes, 19; and Barlett and Steele, Howard Hughes, 521.
59. Int. of Virginia Korshak, 1-20-04; see also Sharp, Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood, 349-51.
60. Glaser Primary Probate in Cook County (IL) Circuit Court, File #69 P 3458, Docket 160, p. 89; also, L.A. Superior Court Probate, #P552490.
61. Sharp, Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood, 348.
62. Int. of Virginia Korshak, 1-20-04.
63. Los Angeles Times, 9/15/69.
64. IBI (Illinois Board of Investigation) testimony of Phil Levin, 6-23-70, 71.
65. Bluhdorn testimony before IBI, 7-14-70, 29-32.
66. Jack Newfield, "The Power of Sidney Korshak," Village Voice, 3-18-76.
67. Int. of Ed Guthman, 1-19-04.
68. Int. of Paul Steiger, 4-19-04.
69. Int. of Andy Anderson, 11-6-03.
70. Int. of Leo Geffner, 3-18-05.
71. McDougal, Last Mogul, 396-97.
72. Chicago Today, 10-21-69.
73. Chicago Sun-Times, 10-31-69.
74. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 353.
Chapter S i x t e en
1. Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 12-28-69.
2. Los Angeles Times, 1-24-70.
3. Int. of Leo Geffner, 3-18-05.
4. Niklas, Corner Table, 29-30.
5. McDougal, Last Mogul, 442.
6. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, 177-78.
7. Messick, Politics of Prosecution, 92-95.
8. Confidential int., 12-18-04.
9. Los Angeles Times, 7-10-70.
10. Peter Bart, "On the Trail of Funny Money," Variety, 12-11-00.
11. Yallop, In God's Name, 308.
12. Naylor, Hot Money, passim.
13. Lernoux, In Banks We Trust, 180.
14. Sindona biographical sources:
DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker; Robinson, The Laundrymen; Williams, Vatican Exposed; Yallop, In God's Name;
Cornwell, God's Banker; Tosches, Power on Earth; National Catholic Reporter, 3-28-86, 3-13-87, 12-24-93, 4-4-86, 1-24-86,3-4-86,3-6-87,4-27-87,5-15-87,3-17-89, 11-9-90, 10-4-00; Wall Street Journal, 7-7-99, 7-8 99, 7-2-99, 3-19-86, 3-10-89, 6-22-87, 4-27-87, 2-27-87; New York Times, 12-18-83, 1-30-86, 11-4-86, 3-23 86 (obit), 3-26-86, 3-22-86, 3-21-86, 3-19-86, 10-17-93, 4-27-89, 3-10-89, 6-9-88, 12-11-87, 7-18-87; Guardian, 3-22-01; Associated Press, 10-26-02; Diane Scarponi, The Herald Sun (online), 5-16-02; Variety, 4-1-99; Forbes, 8-16-93; Euromoney, October 1998; Newsweek, 3-31-86; Time, 3-31-86; New Statesman, 3-28-86; American Banker, 7-3-89; Canadian Banker, March 1997.
15. Dick, Engulfed, 122-47.
16. Bart, Who Killed Hollywood? 114.
17. Ibid., 114-17.
18. Chicago Sun-Times, 5-21-70.
19. Chicago Tribune, 7-15-70.
20. Korshak SEC testimony, 7-23-70, 129.
21. Ibid., 298.
22. New York Times, 6-29-76.
23. SEC v. Parvin Dohrmann et al., Consent Decree, 69 Civ. 4543 (ELP) U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; also "Final Judgment" and various affidavits of defendants.
24. Int. of Paul Steiger, 4-19-04.
25. New York Times, 8-25-71.
26. Int. of Jan Amory, 3-5-03.
27. Los Angeles Times, 8-11-70.
28. Chicago Daily News, 7-20-71; and Chicago Sun-Times, 6-16-71.
29. Chicago Tribune, 6-18-71.
30. Chicago Daily News, 8-3-71.
31. Chicago Tribune, 11-16-71; and Chicago Daily News, 1-29-72.
32. Niklas, Corner Table, 28.
33. Ibid., 29.
34. Ibid.
Chapter Seventeen
1. Sheridan, Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa, 487-521.
2. Velie, Desperate Bargain, 133.
3. Int. of Duke Zeller, 4-8-03.
4. Int. of Jack Clarke, 1-31-04.
5. Int. of Tom Mankiewicz, 4-4-03.
6. Int. of Gianni Russo, 4-28-03.
7. Mollenhoff, Game Plan for Disaster, 45.
8. Gordon Chaplin, Washington Post, 4-2-80; Blumenthal and Yazijian, Government hy Gunplay, 135; Jeff Gerth, "Nixon and the Miami Connection (Nixon and the Mafia)," Sundance, November-December 1972;
and Gerth, "Richard M. Nixon and Organized Crime," Penthouse, 1974.
9. Detroit Free Press, FBI "Hoffa Disappearance" cache, obtained in 2002, and given to the author by Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter.
10. Mike Livingston, "Watergate: The Name That Branded More Than a Building," Washington BusinessJournal, 6-14-02.
11. Justice Department memo, Muellenberg to Stewart, 11-26-76, 15.
12. FBI Detroit Field Office internal memo, 3-29-77.
13. Velie, Desperate Bargain, 151.
14. Brill, Teamsters, 92-93; Miller, Breaking of a President, 298-99; and Moldea, Hoffa Wars, 317.
15. Balsamo and Carpozi, Crime Incorporated, 347.
16. Korshak tax records obtained from U.S. Tax Court, Docket Nos. 4850-72, 4851-72, 2145-71, 4677-71;
Chicago Today, 9-8-72, 9-9-72, 9-29-72; Chicago Daily News, 9-8-72; Chicago Tribune, 9-9-72, 10-1-74; and Chicago Sun-Times, 9-9-72, 10-1-74; and Los Angeles Times, 9-16-72.
17. U.S. v. Marshall Korshak, U.S. District Court for Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, Docket #73 C 820, filed 4-23-73.
18. Chicago Sun-Times, 3-31-73.
19. Chicago Tribune, 4-3-73.
20. Chicago Sun-Times, 4-20-73.
21. Chicago Today, 4-4-73; and Chicago Tribune, 4-3-73.
22. Chicago Daily News, 4-24-73; and Chicago Tribune, 4-25-73.
23. Chicago Tribune, 5-18-73.
24. Chicago Daily News, 8-13-73; Chicago Today, 8-13-73; Chicago Sun-Times, 8-14-73; and Chicago Tribune, 8-14-73.
25. Confidential int. of close Teitelbaum acquaintance, 5-14-05.
26. Demaris, Boardwalk Jungle, 316.
27. Bob Wiedrich, Chicago Tribune, 2-28-71.
28. Biskind, Easy Riders, 153.
29. "The Godfather Speaks," Cigar Aficionado, October 2003; and Biskind, Easy Riders,
142-64.
30. Torgerson, Kerkorian, 230-31.
31. Kerkorian biographical sources: Torgerson, Kerkorian; Washington Post, 9-15-04; Business Week, 5-6-91, 74; 4-14-95, 34; 5-15-95, 40; Car andDriver, July 1995, 29; Fortune, 5-15-95, 44; Newsweek, 4-24-95, 46; New Yorker, 12-11-95, 44; Time, 4-24 95, 54; Vanity Fair, February 1996, 88; and Rod Smith, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 6-20-04.
32. Evans, Kid Stays, 222.
33. "Godfather Speaks," Cigar Aficionado.
34. Michael Sragow, "Godfatherhood," New Yorker, 3-24-97.
35. Int. of Gianni Russo, 4-28-03; also, Al Ruddy, 2-27-03.
36. Int. of Gianni Russo, 4-28-03; and his unpublished autobiography, "Godfathers, Popes, and Presidents."
37. Int. of Gray Frederickson, 2-28-03.
38. "Godfather Speaks," Cigar Aficionado.
39. Interviews of Steve Allen, 1996, 1997.
40. Evans, Kid Stays, 3-11.
41. Biskind, Easy Riders, 236.
42. Seech. 16, n. 14.
43. Int. of Fred Sidewater, 5-6-03.
44. Kezich and Levantesi, Dino, 223-25.
45. Tosches, Power on Earth, 178.
46. Evans, Kid Stays, 202.
47. Terrill, Steve McQueen, 220-30; also, McCoy, Steve McQueen.
48. Biskind, Easy Riders, 160.
49. New West, 9-13-76.
50. Biskind, Easy Riders, 239.
51. Niklas, Corner Table, 389-90.
52. Evans, Kid Stays, 273-74.
53. Ibid., 256.
54. Int. of Tom Mankiewicz, 4-4-03.
55. Broccoli, When the Snow Melts, 40.
56. Ibid., passim; and New York Times, 6-29-96.
57. Confidential int., 1-14-05.
58. Peter Evans, "Has Time Banked the Fires of Sexy Agent 007?" Calendar, 7-25-71.
59. Int. of Lana Wood, 12-19-03.
60. Broccoli, When the Snow Melts, 251.
61. FBI memo to SAC L.A., 8-21-72 (#92-1485-13), Korshak file.
Chapter Eighteen
1. Int. of Leo Geffner, 3-18-05.
2. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 7-20-73 (#92-1112-1949), FBI People's Industrial Consultant file.
3. Epstein, Big Picture, 110.
4. Beaty and Hornik, "A Torrent of Dirty Dollars," Time, 12-18-89.
5. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 345-48.
6. Puttnam, Movies and Money, 212.
7. For more on movie investment tax credits see U.S. Senate, Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, 92nd
Cong., 1st sess., 1971, 196; also, Richard Warren Lewis, "Gimme Shelter," New West, 6-7-76.
8. Brownstein, Power and the Glitter, 217.
9. Variety, 9-9-97, 9-25-97, and 4-8-98.
10. Bart, Variety, 12-22-02.
11. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 35
1.
12. Torgerson, Kerkorian, 295; Joyce Haber, Los Angeles Times, 10-29-73.
13. McDougal, Last Mogul, 368.
14. Hersh, New York Times, 6-29-76.
15. Int. of Berle Adams, 3-3-03.
16. Brill, Teamsters, 373-74.
17. Demaris, Last Mafioso, 373.
18. Int. of John Van DeKamp, 3-31-04.
19. Letter, FBI SAC San Diego to acting director, 2-21-73 (#92-267-292), Korshak file.
20. Bart, Who Killed Hollywood?, 116.
21. Int. of Gray Frederickson, 2-28-03.
22. Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 10-2-73.
23. Int. of Jimmy Murphy, 2-6-04.
24. Int. of Casper Morcelli, 2-20-04.
25. Niklas, Corner Table, 19.
26. Int. of Nancy Czar, 1-25-04.
27. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 7-19-73 (#92-113-3979), Korshak file.
28. Niklas, Corner Table, 18.
29. Int. of Pete Wacks, 5-10-03.
30. Niklas, Corner Table, 20.
31. FBI teletype, Chicago to director, 1-16-74.
32. FBI airtel, Chicago to director, New York, and L.A., 1-16-74 (#92-267-297), Korshak file.
33. Details of the heist from Barlett and Steele, Howard Hughes, 518-49.
34. Drosnin, Citizen Hughes, 4-5.
35. CIA memo to FBI director, 8-5-74.
36. Barlett and Steele, Howard Hughes, 526.
37. Drosnin, Citizen Hughes, 26, 467; and Barlett and Steele, Howard Hughes, 527.
38. Drosnin, Citizen Hughes, 505.
39. Kotkin and Grabowicz, California Inc., 82.
40. Ibid., 85.
41. Miami Herald, 1-25-81.
42. Laxalt background: Organized Crime Digest (VA), February 1982; Miami Herald, 1-5-81; Sacramento Bee, 11-1-83; and Denton and Morris, Money and the Power, passim.
43. Denton and Morris, Money and the Power, 340.
44. Ibid., 348.
45. Int. of Joe Yablonsky, 5-31-05.
46. Brashler, Don, 320, 328, 341-342; and Roemer, Roemer, 226.
47. For more on these operations, see Corbitt and Giancana, Double Deal.
48. The FBI's suspicions of Giacalone are memorialized in a 349-page file from their "Hoffa Disappearance" investigation, headed by Kurt Muellenberg, released to the Detroit Free Press in 2002. The complete report was kindly supplied to the author by the lead reporter on the story, David Ashenfelter. Hoffa expert Dan Moldea independently reached a similar conclusion in his book Hoffa Wars.
49. Niklas, Corner Table, 21.
50. Int. of Ed Becker, 1-1-03.
51. Report supplied by a confidential source.
52. McDougal, Last Mogul, 395.
53. Demaris, Last Mafioso, 323.
54. Ibid., 375.
55. Ibid., 376-77.
56. Chicago Tribune, 7-2-93.
57. FBI memo, SAC Chicago to ADIC L.A., 1-26-77.
58. Bahrenburg, Creation, 14.
59. Ibid., 53.
60. Sharp, Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood, 353.
61. Confidential source; also Jim Harwood, "Wasserman, Korshak Figure in NBC H'Wood Crime Report; Dino Cries Foul," Variety, 12-17-78; and Moldea, Dark Victory, 286.
62. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 7-20-76, Korshak file.
63. Kezich and Levantesi, Dino, 218; and Bahrenburg, Creation, 60.
64. Int. of Fred Sidewater, 5-6-03.
65. Int. of E. Timothy Applegate, 4-12-04.
66. Joyce Haber, Los Angeles Times, 11-22-75.
67. New York Times, 6-28-76.
Chapter N i n e t e en
1. Int. of Seymour Hersh, 5-16-03.
2. Int. of Adam Walinsky, 12-3-03.
3. Grutman and Thomas, Lawyers and Thieves, 141-54.
4. Int. of MJ Goldblatt, 6-6-04.
5. Int. of confidential source, 12-3-03.
6. Int. of Jan Amory, 3-5-03.
7. Int. of Tom Zander, 12-8-03.
8. Frank Lalli, New West, 8-2-76.
9. Chicago Tribune, 6-28-76; and Chicago Sun-Times, 6-29-76.
10. Int. of Leo Geffner, 3-18-05.
11. FBI airtel, SAC Chicago to SAC L.A., 9-17-76.
12. New York Times, 6-30-76.
13. Hentoff, Village Voice, 7-19-76.
14. Lalli, New West.
15. Ibid.
16. Congressional Record, 9-30-76, 17384-85.
17. Moore letter to New York Times, 9-13-76. This and other related letters found in various work files (especially Mollenhoff) of the 1986 President's Commission on Organized Crime, located in the National Archives, College Park, MD
18. Moore, "Was Estes Kefauver 'Blackmailed.' "
19. New York Times, 7-1-76.
20. Int. of Tim Applegate, 4-12-04.
21. Chicago Sun-Times, 7-9-76.
22. Ibid., 7-4-76.
23. Int. of Marvin Rudnick, 4-2-04.
24. Int. of Tom Mankiewicz, 4-4-03.
25. Int. of Jan Amory, 3-5-03.
26. New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement int. of Barron Hilton, 6-22-83.
27. Confidential int.
28. Chicago Sun-Limes, 7-4-76.
29. Sharp, Mr. and Mrs. Holly
wood, 354.
30. New West, 8-2-76.
31. Los Angeles Times, 8-21-76; Carter quoted in Moldea, Dark Victory, 278; see also McDougal, Last Mogul, 397.
32. FBI airtel, L.A. to SAC New York, 12-14-76.
33. FBI memo, DELETED to SAC L.A., 7-6-77.
34. FBI memo of int., 2-25-76 (#183-118).
