New at Button Guys - A Racket Buster Profile on Denis Dillon, long-time Nassau County D.A. and prosecutor who went after the mob and later once claimed he could "speak in tongues."
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Once described by a fellow prosecutor as “absolutely incorruptible,” Denis Dillon spent his entire career fighting crime in New York, with much of his early career being a racket buster against organized crime. One of his favorite targets was Joe Colombo Sr., the boss of the crime family that still bears his name.
But when Dillon arrested Colombo’s son, Joe Jr., in 1970, Colombo turned the tables around and waged his own war against the very institutions meant to bring him down with the creation of the Italian-American Civil Rights League (IACRL). Later, other notorious mobsters from all Five Families, fellow prosecutors, and even a federal judge also found themselves in Dillon’s crosshairs.
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https://thenewyorkmafia.com/denis-dillon-american-criminal-prosecutor/
