For more than a year U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani and his partners in law enforcement had been waiting for this day. From March 1984 through last February, Giuliani's New York office produced eight indictments against the city's most powerful Mafia bosses and their lieutenants. Last week the first two of those cases opened with the selection of anonymous juries in Manhattan's federal district court. It is a major test for an ambitious prosecutor: if Giuliani can win enough convictions in these and other trials scheduled to begin during the next six months, he not only would deal a stunning blow to...
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