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happened at 12:20p.m.on Novem-ber 19.After ten weeks of testimony anda full six days of deliberation,the juryfiled into the crowded courtroom.Theatmosphere was tense.The eight defen-dants sat expressionless.  \nAnthony\"Fat Tony\"Salerno after being arrested.Salerno now faces life in prison.    \n\"Does the jury have a verdict?\"askedfederal judge Richard Owen.  \n“Yes,your Honor.”  \nfamilies.Three of the eight men con-victed were heads of New York Mafiafamilies:Ahthony“Fat Tony”Salerno,  \nThe jury's foreman then read the longverdict.The reading took 20 minutes,butthe finding was clear:All eight defen-dants were guilty of forming a“commis-sion”that controlled much of organizedcrime in the U.S.Each man now faces alifetime in prison for directing a varietyof crimes,including murder,extortion(obtaining money by force),and gam-bling violations.  \n75,boss of the Genovese crime family;Anthony“Tony Ducks”Corallo,73,bossof the Lucchese crime family;and Car-mine“Junior”Persico,53,boss of theColombo crime family.Two other topNew York Mafia bosses,John Gotti,46,head of the Gambino crime family,andPhilip Rastelli,65,head of the Bonnanocrime family,are being tried separately.  \n# A Crushing Blow\n\nAccording to Michael Chertoff,one ofthe Government lawyers at the trial,thesemen were responsible for \"directing thelargest and most vicious criminal busi-ness in the history of the United States.”  \nThe verdict was a crushing blow to theMafia,a criminal organization that wasformed in Sicily,a part of Italy,in the1200's.Today,the Mafia is reported tocontrol a large part of organized crimein the U.S.  \nOrganized crime is big business in theU.S.It controls an evil empire of gam-bling,drug dealing,and other illegal ac-tivities that stretches across the nation.  \nThe Mafia in the U.S.is organized intoloose networks of regional gangs called  \n—APMide Worid  \nIt is also reported to have its hand in anumber of legitimate businesses fromconcrete making to the disposal of chem-ical wastes.The Mafia alone is reportedto have taken in more than $150 billionlast year—more money than the entirenational income of many nations.  \nThe leaders of the Mafia and othercrime organizations rule through fear andviolence.They are known to kill thosewho defy their orders.They threaten toclose down legitimate businesses unlessthey are paid money.And in many places,mobsters have openly boasted of bribingpolice and other public officials.  \nWiretaps and Bugs  \nThe New Yorkconvictions were madepossible by over five years of evidencepainstakingly gathered by Government  \nContinued on Next Page  \nLofaro coolly discussed business withmob leaders,providing the Governmentwith more than 50 tapes over two years.  \nthat they're Sicilian or Italian or ItalianAmerican,\"says Giuliani,“and theycommit a lot of crime....They alsomake up a tiny proportion of ItalianAmericans.\"  \nContinued from Page 1  \nagents.This evidence included the testi-monies of 30mob informers who brokeomerta,the Mafia's centuries-old codeof silence.It also included more than 100recorded conversations from wiretaps onMafia phones and from bugs(electroniclistening devices)hidden at Mafia meet-  \nSome of the best evidence,says theFBI,came from a tiny electronic trans-mitter that agents had placed under thedashboard of Corallo's car while Corallowas dining at a Long Island restaurant.Agents in an unmarked van trailed Cor-allo's car for four months and recordedover 75 hours of conversations.The re-cordings provided many details about theMafia not known before and the best in-formation on the mob since the 1960's.  \nA National Effort  \nThe arrest and conviction of theMafia commission tops off a successfulfive-year nationwide campaign againstorganized crime.The FBI reports 5,389organized crime indictments and 4,175convictions for the 18-month period thatended in March.Mob operations are de-scribed as reeling in 17 of the 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