Gigante Problems on the Waterfront

march 4, 2002  12:13 pm
Gigante Problems on the Waterfront
The Village Voice this week tells a story that sounds old but is brand new: mob control of New York City's waterfront. "Nearly 50 years after On the Waterfront, a dozen years after [a] prosecutorial full-court press, here was the Brooklyn U.S. attorney last month, flanked by the local head of the FBI and the city's top organized-crime cops, at a press conference announcing the indictment of no less a figure than Genovese crime family boss Vincent "the Chin" Gigante, his son, and six other alleged mob figures in a new round of waterfront crimes," Tom Robbins writes in the Voice.