Herbert J. Stern - Diary of a DA: The True Story of the Prosecutor Who Took on the Mob, Fought Corruption, and Won

NEW YORK COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY's OFFICE

FRANK S. HOGAN District Attorney. Entirely non-political, tough on political corruption, determined to stamp out pornography and sexual deviancy and to uphold decency

JOSEPH MICHAEL DONOHUE Mass murderer hit man for The Westies, the west side Irish mob.

LENNY BRUCE Nightclub performer prosecuted, convicted, and incarcerated for offensive language in his performances.

PATRICK CROWE Traffic cop who fired his gun twice at a car after a traffic stop, killing bystander Julius Ofsei.

GEORGE WITMORE Falsely arrested for the savage double murder in the Career Girls case; his false confession to the murders which he did not commit led to the repeal of capital punishment in New York State.

BETTY SHABAZZ Eyewitness to the murder of her husband, Malcolm X.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

HENRY E. PETERSEN Career Departmental Attorney who works his way up from Deputy Chief to Chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section and ultimately to Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division at the time of the Watergate break in and cover up, which investigation he oversaw until replaced by Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox.

DAVID M. SATZ United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey during the Administration of Lyndon Johnson, who owed his appointment to the political boss of central New Jersey, David T. Wilentz. He is replaced by Frederick B. Lacey.

FREDERICK B. LACEY Appointed United States Attorney upon the recommendation of U.S. Senator Clifford P. Case.

SENATOR CLIFFORD P. CASE Senior Senator of New Jersey who recruits Fred Lacey as U.S. Attorney to clean up the state.

OPERATION PIPELINE

THE COLONIAL PIPELINE COMPANY The largest privately financed project at the time wholly owned by the nine major oil companies extending from Houston, Texas, to Woodbridge, New Jersey; succumbs to pressure by New Jersey labor leader Peter Weber to award construction contracts and by public officials in Woodbridge to pay $110,000 in bribes.

BEN D. LEUTY President

KARL T. FELDMAN Executive Vice President

GLENN GILES Vice President

PETER WEBER President of Local 825, Operating Engineers, with jurisdiction over all construction in New Jersey and five counties of New York State; he lines his pockets by extorting monies from construction jobs burying much of the proceeds in the name of his secretary, Mitzi.

MAYOR WALTER ZIRPOLO and PRESIDENT OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF WOODBRIDGE, ROBERT JACKS Members of Boss David T. Wilentz's county organization, took $110,000 in cash from Colonial for permits and easements for the Colonial facilities.

NEW JERSEY POLITICAL BOSSES

DAVID T. WILENTZ Boss of Middlesex County, leader of one of New Jersey's largest law firms. As Attorney General of New Jersey, in the 1930s, prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case; the father-in-law of Leon Hess, the principal of Hess Oil, he is the second most powerful boss in New Jersey. He made his law partner, Arthur Sills, Attorney General in the Administration of Governor Hughes, and, in later years, his son Robert Wilentz Chief Justice.

JOHN V. KENNY Boss of Hudson County which includes Jersey City, Hoboken, Bayonne and West New York defeated and then replaced Frank Hague as Boss; the most powerful politician in New Jersey, leading a ring of corrupt public officials including the Mayor and the President of the City Council of Jersey City that exacts 10% off every public contract given by the city and the county, and 3% of the salaries of city and municipal employees. He gifts $700,000 in bearer

bonds purchased for cash by the Chief of Police of Hudson County to his grandkids.

FRANK S. FARLEY State Senator, Republican Boss of Atlantic County; Farley, originally a member of the corrupt organization of Enoch Nucky Johnson (of the TV show Boardwalk Empire fame), took over when Nucky went to prison for tax evasion; Farley bosses the corrupt administration of Atlantic City Mayor William T. Sommers.

THE NEW JERSEY MAFIA

ANGELO GYP DECARLO Known as Ray, gambling, loan sharking, and entertainment sponsor of the Four Seasons singing group and a character in the Tony Award winning Broadway show, Jersey Boys. A cousin of Frank Sinatra, his extortion sentence is commuted by President Nixon.

RITCHIE THE BOOT BOIARDO A mafia captain whose Livingston estate contained an incinerator used to dispose of bodies.

ANTHONY TONY BOY BOIARDO Son of Ritchie, who along with DeCarlo controls the administration of Newark's Mayor, Hugh J. Addonizio.

ANTHONY LITTLE PUSSY RUSSO Controls the rackets on The Jersey Shore.

The above were sometime models for and source material for the TV series, The Sopranos.

SAM THE PLUMBER DeCAVALCANTE Boss of New Jersey's only independent family whose illegally recorded conversations by the FBI revealed the inner workings of the mob

THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CITY OF NEWARK

HUGH J. ADDONIZIO Mayor of Newark, a former U.S. Congressman recruited for Mayor by Gyp DeCarlo and the Boiardos.

PHILLIP GORDON Corporation counsel of the City

ANTHONY LAMORTE Director of Public Works, a collector for Tony Boy, and Mayor Addonizio.

PAUL RIGO Civil Engineer, who pays off on numerous city projects.

IRVING KANTOR Dying of Lou Gehrig's disease, testifies to cashing $1,000,000 in checks to pay Boiardo.

THE ADMINISTRATION OF HUDSON COUNTY
AND JERSEY CITY

THOMAS WHELAN Mayor, Jersey City

THOMAS FLAHERTY City Council President

Members of Boss John V. Kenny's organization, who collected millions in graft, who had a joint bank account in Florida with $1,230,000 in cash and bearer bonds.