ABSTRACT: From a television interview with Ralph F. Salerno, former Head of the organized crime investigation squad of the New York Police Department and Vice-Chairman of the International Anti-Prohibitionist League.

(The Party New, n.2, July 1991)

I prosecuted Genovese, who died in prison, Carmine Valenti, who was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, released and then shot, and also other people.

Imagine a game of bowling. You've got 12 pins set up and a big investigation, or rather a ball, in your hand. When you knock down 6 pins, you think you've done a great job. Then you take a second ball - another big investigation - and knock down another 3 pins. Three seconds later, the machine sets all the pins up again. They're the brothers, the sisters, the underbosses who spring back into place, right where they were before.