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The Mafia and the Congressman: My interview with the late James Traficant

The Mafia and the Congressman: My interview with the late James Traficant

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James Traficant (U.S. Congress)

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     Here is a published excerpt of a rough-and-tumble 1985 interview I did with James Traficant, a former county sheriff in Youngstown, Ohio—who was indicted by a federal grand jury in 1982 for accepting money from the Mafia.

     In the presentation of their case, federal prosecutors had, among other evid…

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