Mike Virtuoso, who the authorities say is a Bonnano family mobster known as the Butcher, kept Rolodexes and address books explicitly detailing many of his organized crime connections, the authorities said.
The CME Group, which also has not been accused of any wrongdoing, was simply asked "to produce information and witnesses in connection with the authorities' investigation of the matter," the exchange said in its annual report.
"For every application for a new water connection, the municipal authorities make the people run from pillar to post and harass us with numerous cumbersome procedures – and at the end, since the construction is not legal, we end up without getting any connection," says one elderly female resident.
Some of the victims have only the slimmest connections to the authorities.
But he is emerging as a central figure in an expanding web of connections that, the authorities say, indicates that they may have penetrated an operational Qaeda group whose intentions were previously unknown.
Two weeks earlier the judge, Everett Dickey, had overturned Mr Pratt's conviction in the light of new evidence that the chief witness against him was a police and FBI informant who lied about his connections with the authorities to the jury.The Pratt case will no doubt confirm ordinary blacks in their scepticism of mainstream America's commitment to fairness.
Guerrillas and drug traffickers can move into areas like Caqueta and Putumayo precisely because the state has never bothered -- or been able -- to build roads, schools or hospitals there, and the forlorn, neglected peasants there feel only the most tenuous of connections to the authorities back in Bogota.
B5 SPANISH CONNECTION INQUIRY -- The authorities are investigating whether Mohamed Atta, thought to have led the Sept. 11 attacks, met with others involved in the attacks on trips to Spain in January and July.
One person familiar with the specifics of Mr. Williams's arrest in connection with what the authorities called a terroristic threat said the charge might be related to a call Mr. Williams made to a crime-tip hot line.
Two more men were formally charged in connection with what the authorities say was a terrorist plot to blow up trans-Atlantic passenger planes, bringing the number charged to 17.
