Bill,
I think you've pointed out a butchering of Milton Kaack's last name. I just read that the WC investigation could not find Robert Hidell or a "Lt. J. Evans", even thought Myrtle's husband's name was Julien, or something close to that.
I have a simple formula I try to follow, if someone plays an important role in someone else becoming a corrupt billionaire, or can be credited with playing a big part in making it happen through a sin of omission, I suspect that facilitator is dirty. I have had that suspicion for a while now about the prosecutor who went after the aging, irrelevant James Osicco, and thus permitted the big fish to get away and turn into a whale.
Consider that Bartlett's tiny hometown is 46 miles from Pittstown, and that there is no other civilization, and I mean nothing else nearby to Wyalusing, in the state of PA, than the stomping grounds of the Pittstown crew. Consider that Rice, until two years prior to late 1963, to a SS Chief who retired in 1961 declaring that there was no intra-city, organized crime network in the U.S.
You and Adele ought to at least consider this geography and these relationships. Who do you think Obama would pass Adele's letter over to, and if Bartlet was close to a guy who painted houses, isn't there a possibility the DOJ could decide you are victims of your own success in publicizing the details in the letter to Obama?
Recently, when it came time to demolish several prominent old landmarks in Wyalusing, it was Louis Denaples nephew, Charles, son of Denaple's brother, Domenick, permitted to "serve" on the state casino control board that approved brother Louis's casino license at Mt. Airy, who did the demolition work in Wyalusing. Aside from this, the new president of John McAdams's Marquette Univ. is a Jesuit owned by Louis DeNaples.
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See AlsoObituaries - ROCKET-COURIERThe Bufalino file: A look inside the FBI paper trail on NEPA's most notorious mobster
By Dave Janoski, Staff Writer)
Published: July 17, 2011
In his time, Russell A. Bufalino was feted by politicians, feared by his fellow mobsters and dogged by federal prosecutors.
Even 17 years after his death, the soft-spoken, eight-fingered Sicilian with a lazy eye, known to his closest associates as "McGee," is still a presence in Northeast Pennsylvania, where he helped nurture the culture of corruption now unraveling under the pressure of a federal corruption probe.
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The 2006 arrest of Mr. Bufalino's longtime driver and reputed successor, William "Big Billy" D'Elia, put the FBI on the trail of two Luzerne County judges now facing prison for racketeering, federal prosecutors say.
Casino developer Louis A. DeNaples' alleged evasions about a relationship with Mr. Bufalino in interviews with state gaming regulators forced him to relinquish control of his casino in return for dismissal of perjury charges in 2009...
...By October 1981, Mr. Bufalino was back in a federal courtroom in New York, where a jury convicted him of conspiracy. He would begin serving a 10-year sentence the following August.
Meanwhile, RABFAM continued, but there were signs of internal tensions in the Justice Department over the direction of the investigation and frustration over its lack of results.
Mr. Bufalino's indictment in the Napoli case came not from information developed by RABFAM, but through a grand jury in the U.S. Southern District of New York. The Philadelphia FBI office running RABFAM was unaware of the New York case until it learned a Newark FBI agent had been subpoenaed to testify about Mr. Bufalino before the grand jury just weeks before the indictment.
In September 1981, Eric H. Holder Jr., then a federal prosecutor and now U.S. Attorney General, wrote to the Justice Department arguing that RABFAM "has yet to develop a viable, indictable case" and should be shut down.
Mr. Holder wanted to terminate RABFAM because he needed the testimony of a RABFAM informant to pursue a jury-tampering case involving Bufalino lieutenant James David Osticco that had been developed independently of RABFAM.
In response to Mr. Holder's memo, FBI headquarters wrote that going ahead with the Osticco case and unmasking the informant "would entirely void the continuing RABFAM investigation."
In the end, Mr. Holder won. RABFAM informant Frank Parlopiano testified against Mr. Osticco at his trial in 1983. Mr. Osticco was convicted of bribing a juror in a 1977 fraud case involving three Lackawanna County officials and Mr. DeNaples, a Dunmore businessman. The juror was the lone holdout for acquittal in a case that involved overbilling the federal government for flood recovery work following Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972.
After the hung jury, Mr. DeNaples and the other three defendants pleaded no contest in the case. He received a $10,000 fine and three years probation.
RABFAM was shut down for good in 1984.
Mr. DeNaples' alleged relationship to Mr. Bufalino would surface decades later when he successfully applied for a state license for Mount Airy Casino Resort in Monroe County. A Dauphin County grand jury indicted Mr. DeNaples in 2008, alleging he lied to gaming regulators about his relationships with Mr. Bufalino and Mr. D'Elia.
The grand jury concluded "DeNaples escaped a lengthy prison term by employing his organized crime contacts to fix his criminal trial."
The perjury charges against Mr. DeNaples, who was not charged in the Osticco case and who has denied having ties to organized crime, were withdrawn and he agreed to transfer ownership of the casino to family members.
Efforts to reach Mr. DeNaples and his attorney in the perjury case were unsuccessful.
Mr. Holder did not respond to an interview request placed with U.S. Department of Justice....
Consider the location and surrounding area of Wyalusing on the map. It is a region where everybody knows everybody. Orrin Bartlett had to be acquainted with Joe Barbara and Russell Buffalino.
From 1981:
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May 18, 2011 – Retired FBI agent Orrin Bartlett will speak at the Memorial Day services at both Camptown and Wyalusing. Ree Ann Ross; ,; Good Old Days
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May 4, 2011 – Charles DeNaples, owner of Dunmore based SRI, the company contracted to raze the mill complex, said he'll be back later this week with a .
Feds had recent difficulty stripping Louis DeNaples from control of his bank, due to his lack of fitness to
hold the office of chairman of the bank's board.:
http://www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-01-06-E8-31401
1. Louis A. DeNaples and Betty Ann DeNaples, Moscow, Pennsylvania; Louis A. DeNaples, Jr., Dunmore, Pennsylvania; Lisa DeNaples, Mt Pocono, Pennsylvania; Ann DeNaples, Ringoes, New Jersey; Nicholas DeNaples; Margaret DeNaples Glodzik; Dominick DeNaples; Donna DeNaples Dileo; Dominick DeNaples and Mary Ann DeNaples, all of Dunmore, Pennsylvania; Charles DeNaples, Roaring Brook Township, Pennsylvania; Patrick DeNaples; Dominick DeNaples, Jr.; Anthony DeNaples and Joseph DeNaples, all of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, to retain voting shares of First National Community Bancorp, Inc., and thereby indirectly retain control of First National Community Bank, both of Dunmore, Pennsylvania.