Happiness Is...A Pill?: Crime: Ecstasy In Arizona: A Cop and Bull Story

AN INSIDE LOOK AT HOW THE CHASE FOR CRIMINAL PROFITS LED TO THE FALL OF A FABLED MOBSTER

Both "ecstasy" and "Sammy the Bull" Gravano came to Phoenix the same way: by stealth. But when they met, in the darker corners of this sprawling, newly built city, the result was explosive. Gravano arrived under the pseudonym Jimmy Moran, placed in secrecy by the federal witness-protection program. The former underboss of New York City's Gambino crime family and a hit man responsible for 19 murders, Gravano became the government's most important witness against the Mob. His testimony put 37 top-level mobsters behind bars and earned him a $1 million price on his head. Flush with money from book and TV...

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