in trials get convictions
for mob members and their leaders. All of a sudden prominent family members had
the light of the news media shone upon them, followed by aggressive
prosecutions.
Carlo was one of the Dons who, while not himself
indicted, had seen plenty of his peers make the ‘perp’ walk. When you add this
to the development of much better forensic science especially DNA testing, it
was getting easier for the authorities to get the evidence they needed for
convictions. Thus the interest and need for the new ‘firestop’ project to be implemented.
Carlo had to at least slow down the advances made by
the authorities on his turf. All of this for Carlo, this was a costly
distraction to family business. He now has a couple of his Lieutenants under indictment
and is being forced to pay for a costly legal defense. His lawyer, Sam, was
more and more involved with these cases and Carlo had to spend countless hours
in conference with him to guide the defense.
Worse, people who his soldiers dealt with, who paid
ransom to the mob, were less fearful and more aggressive in their willingness
to hold out. No, these were not the best of times for Carlo, but you have to
play the hand that is dealt to you, and Carlo will soldier on.
Chapter 12
A Call to Action
It is Monday morning following the organization’s
meeting and Sam has two new priorities to attend to. First, he contacts a
criminal lawyer he has used in the past, one Saul Lassik. After a discussion of
the Bruno Albino case particulars, Sam assigns the case to Saul. The two
lawyers will stay in close contact, but for discretionary reasons, Sam will
remain in the shadows on this one. Saul will be the Attorney of Record and do
all of the courtroom work on the trial.
The second challenge is a bit more complex. For Sam
it is completely out of his area of expertise. He now calls Mitch Gruber the
‘go to guy’ for finding out about how anything works in the business world.
Mitch is asked to find out, how hard would it be to purchase and install a
crematory in the New York metro area?
After two weeks, Mitch is sitting in Sam’s office
with a binder that includes full color literature on the latest retorts (the
name for a cremation oven) available for cremation.
Mitch says to Sam, “So, you want to have a primer on
cremation. It is really a quite interesting and dark enough subject that most
people aren’t going to want to know these details.
“First people have cremated the dead for as long as
we have recorded history. The Hindus in India did and still do open fire
cremations letting the ashes float down the Ganges River. They simply gather
much kindling wood put the body on top and let it burn through the night.
Besides not being good for tourism, it is quite toxic to the atmosphere. Fast
forward to the eighteen hundreds and an Italian uses the technology already
existent in gas commercial ovens like the kind used for baking. With a properly
sized fire chamber, we can now accommodate a human body.
“The first modern crematory is born. This gives us a
closed furnace usually fired by natural gas that is hotter, quicker, and much
cleaner than open fire burnings. Fast forward another hundred years and the
cremation manufacturers are now operating under even tighter pollution
regulations and they respond with technology. Using computers and superchargers
to blow high volumes of air onto the fire, temperatures are thereby increased
substantially. The new retorts can get up to sixteen hundred to two thousand degrees
Fahrenheit; this is the temperature that is needed to incinerate a body
cleanly.
“With the EPA constantly decreasing the amount of
pollutants allowed into the air, the companies respond by adding a second fire
chamber above the main one housing the body. The purpose of this is to re-burn
the gasses from the first chamber in order to further purify the toxic residue
in the escaping vapors. The final result is that you will see no black smoke or
smell
for mob members and their leaders. All of a sudden prominent family members had
the light of the news media shone upon them, followed by aggressive
prosecutions.
Carlo was one of the Dons who, while not himself
indicted, had seen plenty of his peers make the ‘perp’ walk. When you add this
to the development of much better forensic science especially DNA testing, it
was getting easier for the authorities to get the evidence they needed for
convictions. Thus the interest and need for the new ‘firestop’ project to be implemented.
Carlo had to at least slow down the advances made by
the authorities on his turf. All of this for Carlo, this was a costly
distraction to family business. He now has a couple of his Lieutenants under indictment
and is being forced to pay for a costly legal defense. His lawyer, Sam, was
more and more involved with these cases and Carlo had to spend countless hours
in conference with him to guide the defense.
Worse, people who his soldiers dealt with, who paid
ransom to the mob, were less fearful and more aggressive in their willingness
to hold out. No, these were not the best of times for Carlo, but you have to
play the hand that is dealt to you, and Carlo will soldier on.
Chapter 12
A Call to Action
It is Monday morning following the organization’s
meeting and Sam has two new priorities to attend to. First, he contacts a
criminal lawyer he has used in the past, one Saul Lassik. After a discussion of
the Bruno Albino case particulars, Sam assigns the case to Saul. The two
lawyers will stay in close contact, but for discretionary reasons, Sam will
remain in the shadows on this one. Saul will be the Attorney of Record and do
all of the courtroom work on the trial.
The second challenge is a bit more complex. For Sam
it is completely out of his area of expertise. He now calls Mitch Gruber the
‘go to guy’ for finding out about how anything works in the business world.
Mitch is asked to find out, how hard would it be to purchase and install a
crematory in the New York metro area?
After two weeks, Mitch is sitting in Sam’s office
with a binder that includes full color literature on the latest retorts (the
name for a cremation oven) available for cremation.
Mitch says to Sam, “So, you want to have a primer on
cremation. It is really a quite interesting and dark enough subject that most
people aren’t going to want to know these details.
“First people have cremated the dead for as long as
we have recorded history. The Hindus in India did and still do open fire
cremations letting the ashes float down the Ganges River. They simply gather
much kindling wood put the body on top and let it burn through the night.
Besides not being good for tourism, it is quite toxic to the atmosphere. Fast
forward to the eighteen hundreds and an Italian uses the technology already
existent in gas commercial ovens like the kind used for baking. With a properly
sized fire chamber, we can now accommodate a human body.
“The first modern crematory is born. This gives us a
closed furnace usually fired by natural gas that is hotter, quicker, and much
cleaner than open fire burnings. Fast forward another hundred years and the
cremation manufacturers are now operating under even tighter pollution
regulations and they respond with technology. Using computers and superchargers
to blow high volumes of air onto the fire, temperatures are thereby increased
substantially. The new retorts can get up to sixteen hundred to two thousand degrees
Fahrenheit; this is the temperature that is needed to incinerate a body
cleanly.
“With the EPA constantly decreasing the amount of
pollutants allowed into the air, the companies respond by adding a second fire
chamber above the main one housing the body. The purpose of this is to re-burn
the gasses from the first chamber in order to further purify the toxic residue
in the escaping vapors. The final result is that you will see no black smoke or
smell
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