
Convicted hit man's escape evokes mob's 'ruthless' heyday in one American city
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Dominic Taddeo's short-lived breakout is a reminder of the heyday of La Cosa Nostra in Rochester, New York -- where the tragicomedy antics of rival factions at times evoked the third-rate mobsters in Jimmy's Breslin's novel "The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight."
"Rochester, the home of Kodak, Xerox, and other thriving corporations ... is a wealthy city, a ripe plum ready to be plucked by the strongest and most ruthless mob," Gregory Baldwin, an attorney with the department's organized crime and racketeering section, said during the 1980 hearing.
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