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BYLINE: Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF -
DATE: April 9,
1987 -
PUBLICATION: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution
"Testimony ended
Tuesday in the 12-week [not 11
months] federal
[drug]
racketeering trial , The government is not alleging
Papanier [papania]
is a member of the Mafia, Deichert [prosecutor]
said."
" Papanier
denied being a member of the Gambino syndicate and said he moved to Atlanta to
work for Coppola''s Jilly''s rib restaurants in 1983 to sever his informal ties
with organized crime and "start my life over.."
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THIS TRIAL WAS AFTER TOM WAS SAVED... HIS PASTOR, THE ONE
WHO STILL STANDS BY TOM, THOUGH HE AND HIS PARISHNERS WERE AT THE TRIAL AND
HEARD THAT TOM WAS NEVER A MEMBER OF THE MOB. REMEMBER, TOM WAS NEVER ACCUSED OF
BEING A MEMBER OF THE GAMBINO ORG. AND HE TESTIFIED HE WAS NEVER A MEMBER, HE
ALSO TESTIFIED AS A CHRISTIAN
BYLINE: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF
DATE: April 9, 1987
PUBLICATION: The Atlanta Journal and
The Atlanta Constitution
Government''s closing arguments presented in [drug] racketeering
trial
"Testimony
ended Tuesday in the 12-week federal racketeering trial [not 11 months]
, The government is not alleging [papania] Papanier is a member of the Mafia, [prosecutor] Deichert
said."
"Papanier then called his step-daughter and took the stand
again himself to counter the rebuttal testimony"
" Papanier stuck to
his original testimony. Papanier denied being a
member of the Gambino syndicate and said he moved to Atlanta to work for
Coppola''s Jilly''s rib restaurants in 1983 to sever his informal ties with
organized crime and "start my life over.."
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US FEDERAL COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT
(ATLANTA)
go to Atlanta Journal
Constitution
see: ARCHIVES
search: PAPANIER
DATES BETWEEN:
FROM JAN 1,
1986
TO: JAN 1, 1988
it as not a MAFIA trial, but one of Drug
Running:
The federal jury of eight men and four women found
Coppola, 44, guilty of racketeering, conspiracy to distribute cocaine and
operating a "continuing criminal enterprise." Jurors deliberated for 9 1/2
days.
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Coppola associate pleads guilty to racketeering, murder plot
Author:
HOPKINS, SAM Sam Hopkins Staff Writer STAFF Date: May 26, 1988
Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page
Number: B/6 Word Count: 366
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| Charles Brown, 45, a
co-defendant of former Jilly's restaurant owner Carl Coppola, pleaded guilty
Tuesday, the day before his trial to charges of racketeering and conspiring to
murder Coppola's former bodyguard, Thomas Papanier, according to U.S. Attorney
Robert L. Barr Jr. Coppola was convicted April 27, 1987, after 12 weeks of
testimony, of racketeering and conducting a continuing criminal enterprise for
the purpose of obtaining income from the smuggling and distribution of
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Coppola associate denied bond; he allegedly used alias
Ex-fugitive
altered appearance, used false papers, U.S. prosecutors say
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail
Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: January 20, 1988 Publication:
The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: C/5
Word Count: 522
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| Charles Oliver Brown,
who according to court testimony was employed as a hit man by convicted
racketeer Carl Coppola, was denied bond Tuesday after prosecutors introduced
evidence that Brown had changed his appearance and was living under an assumed
name.
Brown, 44, was arrested Jan. 3 in Holly Hill, Fla., by U.S. marshals. He
had been a fugitive since the unsealing of an 11-count indictment on May 9,
1986, which charged Brown, Coppola and 10 others with federal racketeering and
drug
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Fugitive named as hit man for Coppola is jailed
Author: Date:
January 5, 1988 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta
Constitution Page Number: C/6 Word Count: 432
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Reports
HOLLY HILL, Fla. - A fugitive allegedly employed as a hit man by
convicted racketeer Carl Coppola was arrested by federal marshals, a deputy
marshal said Monday.
Charles Oliver Brown, 44, was traced to Holly Hill, near Daytona Beach,
and arrested at 8 a.m. on Sunday after overnight surveillance confirmed his
identity, said Deputy Marshal Barry Surles.
James Deichert, special attorney in charge of the Organized Crime Strike
Force in Atlanta who
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After 3 months together, goodbye comes hard for Coppola jurors
Author:
EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: June 4, 1987
Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page
Number: A/1 Word Count: 1022
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| The U.S. government may
have concluded its case against racketeer Carl Coppola, but the jurors who
convicted him aren't ready to say goodbye. Come August, they will gather for a
reunion to rehash their grueling three months together.
The likely gathering spot? One of the Jilly's rib restaurants founded by
Coppola.
"After 14 weeks, honey, we know each other!" jury foreman Jerry Garber
said Wednesday afternoon as he bid a boisterous but temporary farewell to
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Coppola found guilty on drug, rackets charges
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail
Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 25, 1987 Publication: The
Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: A/1 Word
Count: 1442
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| Carl Coppola, the
founder of Jilly's rib restaurants whose 14-week racketeering trial was filled
with testimony about murder, drug smuggling and organized crime, was convicted
Friday on six of seven charges against him.
The federal jury of eight men and four women found Coppola, 44, guilty of
racketeering, conspiracy to distribute cocaine and operating a "continuing
criminal enterprise." Jurors deliberated for 9 1/2 days.
Coppola faces a maximum sentence of life
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Jury deliberations are scheduled to begin Monday in racketeering trial
of
Coppola
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date:
April 11, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta
Constitution Page Number: B/1 Word Count: 767
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| Jury deliberations are
scheduled to begin Monday in the federal racketeering trial of Jilly's
restaurant founder Carl Coppola and three co-defendants, marking the start of
the 13th week of the trial.
Closing arguments concluded Friday and were followed by U.S. District
Judge Robert Vining's 1 1/2-hour charge to the jury. Members were sent home
until Monday. Deliberations are expected to last for several days.
In his summation Friday morning, prosecutor James Deichert
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Prosecutor denies defense charges Coppola witnesses fabricated case
Author:
EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 10, 1987
Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page
Number: B/2 Word Count: 1152
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| James Deichert,
prosecutor of accused racketeer Carl Coppola, responding today to defense
contentions that he allowed government witnesses to fabricate their testimony,
told the jury those assertions are "a bag of manure."
The prosecutor of accused racketeer Carl Coppola, responding today to
defense contentions that he allowed government witnesses to fabricate their
testimony, told the jury those assertions are "a bag of manure."
"You're either seeing
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Coppola lawyers claim feds made deals with witnesses
Author:
EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 10, 1987
Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page
Number: C/1 Word Count: 891
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| Attorneys for accused
racketeer Carl Coppola charged in closing arguments Thursday that "zealous"
federal prosecutors, motivated by their "obsession" to snare Coppola after a
three-year investigation, cut "deals" with government witnesses to obtain
damaging testimony.
The U.S. Justice Department has granted immunity, promised to recommend
light sentences or offered other considerations to 10 of Coppola's
co-conspirators who testified against him, Fred
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Coppola called `Lee Iacocca' of drug trade
Government's closing
arguments presented in racketeering trial
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail
Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 9, 1987 Publication: The
Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: A/1 Word
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| Accused racketeer Carl
Coppola ran his alleged criminal enterprise with such "initiative, drive and
determination" that jurors should "consider Mr. Coppola as the Lee Iacocca of
the drug business, and the murder business, too," a prosecutor said Wednesday
during closing arguments in Coppola's federal trial. Comparing Coppola to the
chief executive officer of a burgeoning corporation, prosecutor James Deichert
said Coppola filled his ``job openings" with contract
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Coppola lawyer accuses federal witness of scam
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail
Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 9, 1987 Publication: The
Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: C/1 Word
Count: 1144
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| Defending accused
racketeer Carl Coppola "has got to be similar to a one-armed man wrestling with
an octopus," one of Coppola's attorneys told the jury today during closing
arguments in Coppola's federal trial.
"I'm going to go right to the octopus," Ted Worozbyt said. "And who might
that be? The likely prospect might be Alexander Biscuiti."
Biscuiti, a key government witness and unindicted co-conspirator, falsely
led Coppola to |
Coppola trial summations begin today
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail
Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 8, 1987 Publication: The
Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: D/2 Word
Count: 423
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| Testimony ended Tuesday
in the 12-week federal racketeering trial of Carl Coppola and three
co-defendants, and closing arguments were scheduled to begin this afternoon.
Prosecution and defense attorneys will take through Friday morning to
summarize their cases for the jury, after which members will be charged and
begin deliberations on the seven-count indictment.
The complex racketeering case has included allegations of drug smuggling,
money laundering, murder, organized crime
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Closing arguments scheduled to begin in Coppola trial
Author:
EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 8, 1987
Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page
Number: A/18 Word Count: 615
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| Testimony ended Tuesday
in the 12-week federal racketeering trial of Carl Coppola and three
co-defendants, and closing arguments are scheduled to begin Wednesday afternoon.
Prosecution and defense attorneys will take through Friday morning to
summarize their cases for the jury, after which members will be charged and
begin deliberations on the seven-count indictment.
The complex racketeering case has included allegations of drug smuggling,
money laundering, murder, organized
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Testimony is set to close today in racketeering trial of Coppola,
four
others
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date:
April 7, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta
Constitution Page Number: C/3 Word Count: 415
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| The last of four
co-defendants in the federal trial of accused racketeer Carl Coppola rested his
defense today, and the government completed its rebuttal case.
Defense witnesses to counter the rebuttal testimony are scheduled for
this afternoon, bringing testimony to a close in the case. U.S. District Judge
Robert Vining has not yet scheduled closing arguments in the 12-week trial.
Co-defendant Frank Church called one witness in his defense - Harold
Rodovich, who already has
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| Thomas Papanier, a co-defendant in the racketeering trial
of Carl Coppola who has been linked to the Mafia, testified Friday that he once
was proud of his association with New York's Gambino organized crime family and
that his friendships gave him access to exclusive restaurants and nightclubs.
But Papanier denied being a member of the
Gambino syndicate and said he moved to Atlanta to work for Coppola's Jilly's rib
restaurants in 1983 to sever his informal ties with
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Coppola co-defendant denies crime family
ties
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff
Writer STAFF Date: April 3, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The
Atlanta Constitution Page Number: B/2 Word Count: 629
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| Tommy Papanier, a co-defendant in the trial of accused
racketeer Carl Coppola, took the witness stand Thursday and disputed previous
testimony that he was connected to New York's Gambino organized crime family.
Papanier also denied previous testimony that
he conspired to distribute cocaine with Coppola and hosted a series of meetings
at his Dunwoody home during which the murder of an associate was planned.
The testimony of Papanier, a tall, strapping
man with a thick New
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Coppola denies he bragged how easy it was to pull a `hit'
Author:
EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: March 28, 1987
Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page
Number: B/1 Word Count: 822
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| Accused racketeer Carl
Coppola denied Friday telling an undercover FBI agent that he could get anybody
killed by making "one phone call" to New York, but Coppola said he could not
recall whether he told the agent that he reported to New York's Gambino
organized crime family, as the agent had testified.
Coppola continued to dispute the testimony of key prosecution witnesses
who said he masterminded murder plots against associates Daniel Forgione and
Thomas Papanier, a
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Coppola disputes testimony he plotted deaths, drug scheme
Author:
EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: March 27, 1987
Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page
Number: C/1 Word Count: 1018
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| Accused racketeer Carl
Coppola on Thursday attempted to refute the bulk of the government's case
against him, denying that he conspired to murder two men or distribute large
quantities of cocaine in Atlanta in the mid-1980s.
Coppola, appearing relaxed and jovial during his third day on direct
examination, repeatedly disputed the testimony of key prosecution witnesses who
said he was responsible for the murders of associates Joseph Cam and Daniel
Forgione and for a
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Coppola denies plot to kill two
Disputes testimony he was part of
drug scheme
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date:
March 27, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta
Constitution Page Number: C/1 Word Count: 1210
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| Accused racketeer Carl
Coppola today denied telling an undercover FBI agent that he could get anybody
killed by making "one phone call" to New York, but Coppola said he could not
recall whether he told the agent that he reported to New York's Gambino
organized crime family, as the agent had testified. Coppola continued to dispute
the testimony of key prosecution witnesses who said he masterminded murder plots
against associates Daniel Forgione and Thomas Papanier, a co-defendant.
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Coppola on tape offers to arrange `hit'
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail
Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: March 19, 1987 Publication: The
Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: C/1 Word
Count: 1096
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| Accused racketeer Carl
Coppola, in a secretly taped conversation played for the jury Wednesday, offered
to arrange the murder of a prosecutor and admitted that he had financed a
cocaine deal and owned an Atlanta striptease club held in the names of other
people. The conversation was recorded in August 1979 by Atlanta lawyer Hirsch
Friedman, who wore a body "bug" as part of an FBI investigation into public
corruption and drug trafficking in Atlanta.
Accused racketeer Carl Coppola,
Coppola admitted being mob member, FBI agent tells jury
Author:
EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: March 18, 1987
Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page
Number: A/10 Word Count: 876
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| Accused racketeer Carl
Coppola told an undercover FBI agent in 1984 that he and co-defendant Tommy
Papanier belonged to New York's Gambino organized crime family and that Coppola
was kidnapped because he had fallen behind in his payments to the syndicate, the
agent testified Tuesday.
"I asked him why they'd want to kidnap him, of all people," said Special
Agent Eugene Bennett. "He said he was behind in his payments and they were
trying to extort him. . . . He
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Coppola discussed bribing DeKalb judge in 1979, court told
Author:
EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: March 18, 1987
Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page
Number: A/1 Word Count: 1324
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| Accused racketeer Carl
Coppola discussed the possibility of offering a bribe to then-DeKalb County
Superior Court Judge Clyde Henley in 1979, and Henley's name was on a 1983 list
of people eligible to receive "complimentary" meals at Jilly's restaurants,
according to testimony this morning in Coppola's federal racketeering trial. The
testimony occurred outside the jury's presence.
Accused racketeer Carl Coppola discussed the possibility of offering a
bribe to
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Coppola case fugitive captured
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail
Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: March 13, 1987 Publication: The
Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: A/16 Word
Count: 764
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| Convicted drug smuggler
William Cross Jr. of Marietta, who was declared a fugitive after he failed to
respond to a subpoena in the federal racketeering trial of Carl Coppola, has
been arrested and will testify next week in the closing days of the
prosecution's case.
Cross will testify that Coppola admitted arranging the May 1983 killing
of Coppola's former business associate, Joseph Cam, prosecutor James Deichert
said earlier in the trial outside the jury's presence.
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Coppola co-defendant leaves court while `friend' testifies
Author:
EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: March 6, 1987
Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page
Number: B/3 Word Count: 475
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| Tommy Papanier, a
co-defendant in the federal trial of accused racketeer Carl Coppola, was allowed
to leave the courtroom Thursday afternoon after he told the judge he could not
bear to hear any more testimony from prosecution witness John Tribiano.
"Your honor, I've been the man's friend for the better part of my life
and I can't sit here and listen to him perjure himself for Mr. Deichert,"
Papanier said out of the jury's presence, referring to Justice
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Coppola plotted to slay former guard, jury told
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail
Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 27, 1987 Publication:
The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: C/4
Word Count: 700
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| During March and April
1984, accused racketeer Carl Coppola solicited a murder attempt against his
former bodyguard, participated in a foiled armed robbery attempt and distributed
2 kilograms of cocaine, a witness testified Thursday in Coppola's federal trial.
Coppola also made off-the-cuff remarks about wanting to kill two other
associates, testified Joseph Lee, 45, a former Coppola cohort who is cooperating
with prosecutors.
Lee said he, Coppola and Rodney Smith, then an
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Coppola plotted associates' slayings,
witness testifies
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff
Writer STAFF Date: February 26, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The
Atlanta Constitution Page Number: B/1 Word Count: 772
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| Accused racketeer Carl Coppola started planning murder plots
against two business associates in January 1984 and admitted having arranged the
slaying of a third, a witness testified Wednesday during Coppola's federal
trial.
Joseph Lee, 45, testified
that he and Coppola built a remote-control bomb they intended to use to kill
former Coppola associate Danny Forgione. Lee was the second participant
in the alleged murder conspiracy to testify that Coppola masterminded the
slaying.
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Coppola tied to 2 murders by witness
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date:
February 25, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution
Page Number: C/1 Word Count: 842
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| Testimony this morning in the federal trial of accused racketeer
Carl Coppola linked him to two murders, one of which was allegedly planned in
the Dunwoody house of co-defendant Tommy Papanier.
Joseph Lee testified he, Coppola, Papanier
and associate Alexander Biscuiti met in January 1984 to plot the murder of Danny
Forgione. Forgione was fatally shot six times at close range in Florida in March
1984.
The murder was necessary, Lee said, because
Forgione knew Coppola had had
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Witness says he called FBI for Coppola, who feared for his life
Author:
EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 24,
1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution
Page Number: A/25 Word Count: 793
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| Accused racketeer Carl
Coppola, fearful of being killed by two business associates in 1984, told
another associate, William Wotocek, to call in the FBI, Wotocek testified Monday
during Coppola's federal trial. Wotocek said Coppola called him "in a state of
panic" and summoned him to his north Atlanta condominium. Several witnesses have
testified that Coppola told them that Papanier, also on trial in the
racketeering case, had connections to a New York organized crime
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Called FBI for Coppola, witness says
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail
Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 23, 1987 Publication:
The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: D/1
Word Count: 490
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| Accused racketeer Carl
Coppola, fearful of being killed by two business associates in 1984, told
another associate, William Wotocek, to call in the FBI, Wotocek testified this
morning during Coppola's federal trial.
Wotocek said Coppola called him "in a state of panic" and summoned him to
his north Atlanta condominium.
"Bill, they're trying to kill me," Wotocek testified Coppola told him in
reference to Tommy Papanier and Alex Biscuiti. "I
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Lawmen keep security tight on high-profile drug trials
Author:
EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 9, 1987
Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page
Number: E/1 Word Count: 1046
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| On the 21st floor of
the Richard B. Russell Federal Building, where two high-profile drug trials
continue in adjacent courtrooms, spectators must pass through a portable metal
detector, 20 lawmen keep constant vigil and one prosecutor wears a bullet-proof
vest. Tensions in one of the cases mounted even before trial, when federal
authorities suspected an alleged escape plot by some of the defendants, sources
said. Four defendants, including former Jilly's restaurant owner Carl Coppola,
are
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Mistrial denied as Coppola's attorney claims co-defendant's lawyer
hurt
case
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date:
February 6, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta
Constitution Page Number: D/3 Word Count: 587
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| The attorney for
accused racketeer Carl Coppola moved for a mistrial Thursday, charging that a
co-defendant's lawyer has effectively turned into "a prosecutor" by violating an
agreement to "not dump" on Coppola.
Coppola's attorney, Ted Worozbyt, also told the court outside the jury's
presence that he believes the other lawyer, Alan Begner, cannot adequately
perform his job.
Begner represents co-defendant Tommy Papanier in the trial before U.S.
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Motion for mistrial denied by judge in Coppola case
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail
Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 6, 1987 Publication:
The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: B/2
Word Count: 604
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| Ted Worozbyt, the
attorney for accused racketeer Carl Coppola, moved for a mistrial Thursday,
charging that co-defendant Tommy Papanier's lawyer, Alan Begner, has effectively
turned into ``a prosecutor" by violating an agreement to "not dump" on Coppola.
U.S. District Court Judge Robert Vining denied the motion for mistrial.
The attorney for accused racketeer Carl Coppola moved for a mistrial
Thursday, charging that a co-defendant's lawyer has effectively turned into
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Memory is fine, Coppola witness says
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail
Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 5, 1987 Publication:
The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: A/38
Word Count: 501
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| The attorney for a
co-defendant in the Carl Coppola trial tried to suggest Wednesday that a key
prosecution witness whose testimony linked his client to murder conspiracy and
cocaine smuggling was too high on cocaine in 1984 to remember the events about
which he testified.
But Alexander Biscuiti, 44, an unindicted co-conspirator in the case,
denied that assertion. While admitting that he abused cocaine and alcohol, he
said he remembered the events well despite his drug use because,
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Memory fine despite drug use, key witness in Coppola trial says
Author:
EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 5, 1987
Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page
Number: B/4 Word Count: 590
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| The attorney for a
co-defendant in the Carl Coppola trial suggested Wednesday that a key
prosecution witness who linked his client to murder conspiracy and cocaine
smuggling was too high on cocaine in 1984 to remember the events about which he
testified.
But Alexander Biscuiti, 44, an unindicted co-conspirator in the case,
denied that assertion. While admitting that he abused cocaine and alcohol,
Biscuiti said he remembered the events well despite his drug use because, "I
lived
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Witness links Coppola to death plots involving remote-control bombs
Author:
EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 3, 1987
Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page
Number: D/3 Word Count: 723
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| Testimony Monday in the
federal racketeering trial of Carl Coppola linked him to two murder
conspiracies, in both of which Coppola intended to use homemade,
remote-controlled bombs, according to a key prosecution witness.
In his sixth and final day on direct examination, Alexander Biscuiti, an
unindicted co-conspirator, said Coppola and his business associate Thomas
Papanier repeatedly had asked Biscuiti to kill Danny Forgione in a dispute over
money.
Forgione, president of a
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Coppola lawyer challenges federal witness
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail
Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 3, 1987 Publication:
The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: B/1
Word Count: 908
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| Ted Worozbyt, attorney
for accused racketeer Carl Coppola, takes the offensive, asking government
witness Alexander Biscuiti if he killed two men Coppola is implicated in
slaying, presses Biscuiti to prove his assertions that Coppola had become
involved with organized crime families.
The attorney for accused racketeer Carl Coppola took the offensive this
morning, asking a key government witness if he had killed two men Coppola is
implicated in slaying.
The attorney also pressed the
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Coppola built remote-control bomb to kill businessman, witness
testifies
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date:
February 2, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta
Constitution Page Number: E/4 Word Count: 438
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| Accused racketeer and
former Atlanta restaurateur Carl Coppola built a remote-control bomb to kill a
business associate, a key prosecution witness testified this morning during
Coppola's federal court trial.
Alexander Biscuiti, a cooperating witness, said Coppola told him to kill
Danny Forgione by placing the bomb under Forgione's car seat or in a garbage
pail at Forgione's home in Florida.
Coppola and Joseph Lee, also an associate, used a remote-control device
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Coppola sought to import cocaine, open adult bookstores, court told
Author:
EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: January 31, 1987
Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page
Number: C/6 Word Count: 614
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| Accused racketeer Carl
Coppola and his business partners, seeking to expand their alleged criminal
enterprise in Atlanta, planned to open adult bookstores and import large
quantities of cocaine into the city, a key prosecution witness testified Friday
in Coppola's trial.
Alexander Biscuiti, an unindicted co-conspirator, said that he, Coppola,
co-defendant Thomas Papanier and Atlanta adult bookstore operator Rodney Glenn
Smith traveled to New York in January 1984. The men were
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