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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Ralph Blumenthal / The Bulletin
June 2, 2008
The headline in The New York Times that day in 1984 was macabre, if unintentionally hilarious: “Unknown Arm of Sicilian Mafia Is Uncovered in the United States.”
The arm in question was an overseas cell of the Italian criminal underworld operating alongside its better-known....
