Dioguardi was a master fixer and controller of locals and unions and, through this influence, was able to manipulate opportunities for himself and the Lucchese family in a wide range of areas. www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/lucch...
It then found, after hearing, that the convictions were not affected by a single unrelated instance of electronic surveillance of appellant Dioguardi. www.ipsn.org/court_cases/us_vs_dioguardi-1970-04-21.htm
As a boy on Manhattan's Lower East Side, John Dioguardi used to extort his spending money by tipping over pushcarts until harried street peddlers paid him to lay off. Payoffs got bigger later on,... www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,809877,00.html
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