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Last week on "crime story..."

That's good. That's good because you're paying for it.

And now I want to introduce the newest member

Of the board of trustees of this gorgeous club,

And one of las vegas' more sparkling personalities-

Excuse me, gentlemen.

Excuse me, senator.

Your timing stinks as usual, torello.

Hey, it's always a good time to bring you bad news, ray.

Yeah, bad news from who?

Your friend jorge senterro.

He said next time hire a guy that can shoot.

You guys wanted krinsky dead.

He's more alive now than ever. By tomorrow morning,

His story will be in every newspaper in the country.

It's a story, torello. It's only a story.

A story which jorge senterro will happily corroborate.

Here you are, pauli.

Here you are, ray.

It's called a subpoena. For you, it's bedtime reading.

Just think about it, ray.

Senate racket hearings on national television.

Think about it.

You're out of your head, torello.

Save it for the tv cameras, you cheap punk.

This week on "crime story..."

Then I can count on you when I need you.

Yes. There are limits.

I put over a million bucks into your campaign.

For that kind of dough,

There are no limits.

Order in the hearing room.

Order.

I just couldn't do it to my kid's godfather.

Hi, ray, how you doin'?

Krinsky, what the hell are you doing here?

You wanna tell me what story you're really working on?

I'll tell you about it later, mike.

- Right now I'm in trouble. I may need your help. - Where are you?

I'm in a phone booth outside the horseshoe ca-

Joe?

Order, order.

Order in the courtroom.

Quiet, please.

These hearings will come to order.

The committee will come to order.

All out of words, huh, joe?

Out of stories.

I, uh...

I saved every one of 'em.

Even the ones I didn't read I saved.

But I promise you the best one is still yet to come.

Maybe we'll finish it for you, joe.

Ladies and gentlemen, these hearings have been convened at the request

Of the justice department in order to investigate

Some extremely serious allegations.

We are here to inquire whether individuals

Within our own government are involved in financial

And business arrangements with certain criminal figures

In an official capacity.

In other words, we are here to find out

If in fact the United States government

Has made an unholy alliance with organized crime.

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Lieutenant torello, how long have you been acquainted with mr. Ray luca?

Acquainted sounds like we might be friends, senator.

We're anything but friends.

How long have you known mr. Luca?

I've known about ray luca and his activities for about four years.

What were those activities?

Murder, armed robbery,

Burglary, racketeering.

Well, I guess it works. Huh, ray?

Let's go get it.

Think you can handle that?

They're gone. It's done.

One of them was your friend o'donnell.

Man, this car rides beautiful.

Hey, can I try it?

- You want to take a spin? - If you don't mind.

No, I don't mind.

Listen, pull over here.

Sure.

Hey, no hot-rodding.

Don't worry. I'll go easy.

I guess this is...

Bon voyage or whatever they say.

Yeah, well, that's why I came by.

- Yeah? - To say goodbye.

Bye, phil.

Has mr. Luca ever been convicted?

Let's hold the questioning until preliminaries are disposed with.

I beg the senator's pardon.

I don't mind answering, senator.

Go ahead, lieutenant.

No, sir, ray luca has no convictions.

However, last year a warrant was issued for his arrest,

Charging him with three counts of murder.

Unfortunately, he escaped and disappeared before we could serve the warrant.

Where'd he disappear to?

We thought he was dead.

Ray.

You don't want cori to know?

No, not until everything is set.

Leave us alone now.

Later.

Thank you.

When did you learn that he was not dead?

As part of an ongoing, still active investigation.

- What happened next? - Two young police officers

From new york city were assigned to my unit-

Detectives peter donlevy and louis rivera.

They were young and eager,

So I decided to assign them to the surveillance of max goldman,

An associate of ray luca.

It was supposed to be an easy assignment.

You know what I think?

It's time to call torello.

Yeah! What did I tell you, huh?

Stick with max. Didn't I tell you, right?

Okay, stop it, stop it, stop it.

I believe they were murdered because of what they saw being loaded on that plane.

Weapons and narcotics that are part of a smuggling operation.

A smuggling operation between who?

Elements of the United States government in central america.

Do you know who was running this smuggling operation?

Our investigation led us to ray luca.

Mr. Torello, would you share with us what you've concluded

- From your investigation? - No.

Mr. Torello, I don't understand.

There's nothing to understand, senator.

I'll tell you what I know, but if the purpose of these hearings

Is to determine if there's collusion

Between elements of the u.S. Government and organized crime,

I can't tell you how we work.

Lieutenant torello, sergeant krychek,

- Senator michael gaspari. - How do you do, senator?

Hello, senator.

Don't worry about baxter. He's just been reelected.

Wants to put on a good show.

He's been a little jumpy about our forum.

We're dealing with some situations that come pretty close to home.

He oughtta be jumpy. Luca helped put him in his senate seat.

Lieutenant torello,

How did luca manage to survive an atom bomb blast?

According to senterro,

Paul taglia and ray luca

Were able to drive far enough away

From the center of the blast to barely survive.

They were picked up and brought to a military hospital.

They escaped from there, made their way to mexico

And stayed at the hacienda of jorge senterro,

Who's an associate of manny weisbord's.

And how did you find out that mr. Luca was really alive?

What is this all about anyway?

Someone very close to several federal agencies

Is coming here to las vegas by our special arrangement.

This man has performed valuable services

For our country. Very valuable services.

This isn't a babysitting job, is it?

Not for your organized crime strike force.

Good.

Yeah, well, okay, so?

We are going slow

To assure ourselves that you understand

This man is a highly,

Repeat, highly valued asset

Of the United States government.

Okay, so we know, all right?

Listen, we have a court appearance to go to.

Send him in.

Hello, torello.

Colonel dance and ray luca,

How did this association start?

I don't know, senator. You'll have to ask them.

Hey, ralph, mike torello.

How are things in the fbi records?

Total excitement. We get a coronary a minute down here.

- Yeah, yeah. - What do you need?

- Listen, ralphie, I need a big favor. - Yeah, shoot.

Ray luca- he made some kind of a deal with the "g."

I have to know what kind of a deal he made

And what he had to do to get it, all right?

- Luca, huh? - Yeah.

Hold on.

- Hello, mike. - Yeah.

Bad news. I can't help you.

Look, ralph,

I'm a department of justice strike force agent

Calling the bureau for some information.

Mike, back off. It's way out of my hands.

The entire luca file is classified,

- And I mean deep. - Yeah, yeah, okay, thanks.

Our next move was to find out

What luca was up to in las vegas.

Swimming, mowing the law, shopping for groceries.

This isn't ray luca. It's ozzie and harriet.

- We're telling you what the guy did. - You're telling me nothing.

Listen, he's playing it cool. He knows we're watching him.

Can't expect him to do anything else. Takes time, get used to it.

I don't wanna get used to it, danny,

I don't think you should either, any of you.

- You have any other suggestions, counselor? - Hey, you're the police.

And it was at that very moment

That we finally put it all together.

He hasn't even tried to get into his own casinos.

He's not running any scams. He's not laying any juice.

We have turned vegas upside down.

We got zip.

Maybe we can't find out what luca is doing in vegas,

Because it's not happening here.

It's bigger than vegas.

Whatever luca's operation,

It just took a giant step upward.

We focused our investigation on luca's new associations.

And from that, we developed sources of our own.

Looks like luca's graduated

From snatching old ladies' purses

To being a broker in international drugs.

Not a bad country, huh?

Is it an old chinese custom to send women to do the dirty work?

There's nothing dirty about working for chairman mao, mr. Luca.

And contrary to your corrupt value system,

We don't discriminate between the sexes.

If I'm so corrupt,

Maybe you shouldn't have anything to do with me.

I detest you, mr. Luca.

You prey on men's weaknesses.

You're a parasite,

And one day you'll be wiped out forever.

But for now I'm forced to deal with you

And offer you the only thing that means anything to you-

- Money. - I'm not interested in money.

Oh, really? How un-american.

I want certain concessions from your government,

Concerning future business dealings

In the area called the golden triangle.

What sort of concessions?

Available trade routes,

Air rights...

And the freedom to operate flights through chinese airspace

Over hunan province without any interference.

You're asking a great deal, mr. Luca.

I'm offering a great deal.

Another of his associates we came to know about

Was an asian heroin producer- albert chen.

And you can guarantee this, mr. Luca?

Every shipment, to the last ounce.

Mr. Chen, if you'll ship your product to mexico

Instead of oakland, we can guarantee

It'll be flown back into this country

And distributed with no danger of interdiction.

On senor senterro's planes?

Yes, that is what we propose.

And what do you expect for your role in this, mr. Luca?

A percentage of every shipment.

To be negotiated, of course.

Krinsky was checking into the private armies

That run the opium trade out of the shan mountains.

He discovered that one of these armies

Was being led by a general named lao lee.

Lao lee was chiang kai-shek's top honcho.

Yeah, and lao lee's main man, the king of china white

Is our very own mr. Chen.

Look at this photo that joe took of some of our old friends.

The mexican guy with luca is jorge senterro.

You probably know the other guy.

Yeah, our favorite lieutenant colonel.

The eagle scout- milton dance.

That's right. Now look at this.

Some kind of schedule.

That's right. Sol air airlines.

Senterro's operation.

Planes go down there, make secret trips to and from mexico

And land at various parts of the nevada desert.

So what, the cargo's heroin?

That's just the northbound cargo. Southbound cargo

Is machine guns, grenades, mortars.

The planes go down there loaded with weapons

And come back packed with heroin.

Luca is brokering in mexican brown. Now with chen in the picture,

He's probably gonna do the same thing with china white.

Can you prove it?

Lieutenant torello, do you have a witness

To prove the allegations you've made against mr. Luca?

Yes, ray luca's partner jorge senterro.

Until he tried to kill me.

- Just tell the truth. - I will. I promise you.

I will.

Take your hat off.

For the record, state your name, please.

Jorge senterro.

And what do you do for a living, mr. Senterro?

I'm a farmer.

Ray, I don't think you should be here.

I wouldn't miss this for the world.

I will have quiet

Before I continue questioning the witness.

Now I was about to say, mr. Senterro, that I have

A deposition that you gave to the justice department.

- Is that right? - Yes.

In this statement, mr. Senterro,

You stated that mr. Luca used your planes

To smuggle weapons and heroin between central america

And the United States.

I asked you a question.

Did you hear me all right?

No, sir! I do not know any ray luca!

Now wait a minute! We have a 200 page statement here

That says that you ran drugs and guns with ray luca.

I don't care what you have! No es verdad!

Mr. Senterro,

Isn't it true, sir, that you voluntarily made a deal

With the department of justice after you were caught

Smuggling narcotics into our country?

I made the deal, sure.

But they made me make it! They told me to lie!

- Who's they, mr. Senterro? - Torello!

Over here!

Se�or senterro,

What did you say when lt. Torello told you to lie?

I said sure.

He threatened to kill my family.

And I was tired of being tortured and beaten.

I got proof!

I knew something was up when senterro

Kept sending out for cigarettes.

Yeah, well, you knew about it a little late!

Look! The guy played us, all right?

And he did a damn good job.

I don't know about you, but I like my eggs scrambled,

Not on my face. These hearings are in trouble.

We'll come up with something.

We don't have time to go fishing.

Let me worry about that. You guys just keep the hearings going.

Okay.

- What do you want to do? - I don't know.

We'll go over krinsky's notes again.

Maybe there's something we missed.

- Come on. - Yeah.

Mr. Chairman, I'd like to call another witness,

Mr. Paul taglia.

Mr. Taglia,

Do you know lt. Michael torello?

Yeah, sure I know torello.

He likes to use my head for a softball.

- Could you be more explicit, please? - Yeah.

Ever since I met torello, he's been beating on me.

He wants to get stuff out of me.

Are you employed, mr. Taglia?

Yeah, sure.

I'm a hairdresser.

When was the last time that lt. Torello allegedly beat you?

I gotta consult my memory.

You killed o'donnell. I'll bury you!

- I'll burry you- - you're wrong!

I didn't do nothing!

I'll kill you!

Who was at the metro museum?

By the time I'm through with you, you're gonna beg me to go to jail.

- Who else was there? - You know what you're asking me?

I'm not asking you, I'm telling you!

- I'll kill you right now, pauli.

- I'll kill you! Who else?! - Luca!

O'donnell, me and holman.

Who killed connelly?! Who killed him?!

These hearings are not designed to examine the lieutenant's character.

How could you not want to examine him?

I even offered to do his hair for nothing.

If he's not beating on me.

You're excused for now, mr. Taglia.

But keep yourself available.

Yeah.

- I call david abrams. - Senator baxter,

Mr. Abrams is luca's defense council.

That's true, but prior to that

He worked for the justice department.

Senator deming, I would like to hear what mr. Abrams has to say.

This is the official position of the u.S. Government!

Mr. Luca is not to be harassed or harmed in any way.

You are free to go. Now.

But it-

It's preposterous.

It's the most corrupt thing I've ever heard in my life.

Lu-

No.

I don't accept it. No way.

How the hell can they do this to us?

How can they give him a free pass?

They make deals like this every day of the week.

They don't have to say a thing to you or me.

What the hell are we risking our lives for?

One thing I can say about ray, he's not the kind of guy

To let a little thing like an atom bomb get in his way.

Does he glow in the dark or what?

Hey, grossman. You see, it's not funny.

Is he going to be all right?

I hope so, danny.

Everything he believes in was just taken away from him.

Mr. Abrams, how well do you know lt. Michael torello?

I know lt. Torello very well.

We used to work together.

Would you describe mr. Torello as a vindictive man?

I'd say thorough would be a more accurate description

- Of the lieutenant. - Would you say that

Lt. Torello's thoroughness

Has driven him to a personal vendetta against ray luca?

What kind of a question is that?

What we're trying to find out here

Is if mr. Luca deserves to have a vendetta against him.

- Well, mr. Abrams? - Do I have to answer that question?

- No, sir. - That's good because I don't want to.

Order! Order!

If you can not keep quiet, the sergeant at arms will remove you.

Mr. Abrams,

When did you decide to work for mr. Luca?

Look at him.

Hey, hotshot attorney?!

David?!

I offered you stuff and you spit in my face.

Well look at you now.

The guy who wouldn't come to work for me.

You think I killed your father trying to hit you.

You're wrong! It was bartoli!

It's one of the reasons why I hit bartoli.

Yeah, pauli made the bomb, but he didn't know it was for you.

Do you even know who I am?! Huh?!

Luca.

Yeah, luca.

You tried to make yourself into something you never were.

You were born in the outfit.

I tried to tell you!

Never mind. Never mind.

He's already dead.

Hey look,

If or when you ever clean yourself up

And you want a job,

Come look me up.

I'll let you collect subpoenas from process service.

Let's get out of here.

Bye, david.

Thought about your offer.

I'm going to need an advance.

Gotta get myself cleaned up.

I ask you again, mr. Abrams.

Does michael torello have it in for ray luca?

What the hell is this? Get the hell out of my casino!

Hey, hey! What are you doing?!

Torello!

You can't do this this time, torello!

I'm going to sue your ass in circuit court!

You're living in the past, big shot!

Tell him! Tell him!

Mr. Luca, by decision of the state gambling commission,

Your gaming license is hereby suspended.

In pending a hearing, you are here by barred

From the premises of any and all gaming establishments

In the state of nevada.

The hell I am!

The hell you're not!

One step! One step, ray,

Into one of your own joints

To count your own money, drink your own booze,

Or bop one of your own broads,

And you're going to the joint!

Yeah, well come on! Come on!

- Come on, you punk! Mr. Luca, can you look this way?

Come on! Mr. Luca, can you please make a statement?

Do you have an answer for us, mr. Abrams?

In a big way, senator.

Just as I would imagine senator deming has it in for ray luca in a big way.

What's that supposed to mean, mr. Abrams?

It means exactly what I just said, senator.

What are you talking about?

About this, sir.

Chicago dispatch dated August 9, 1937.

May I see that, please?

I want to read this into the record, gentlemen.

This tells the story of a...

Northside chicago businessman

Who committed suicide

When his print shop was burned

In a fire that he claims

Was started by manuel weisbord.

Now that businessman's name

Was alfred deming senior. Your father, senator.

And as everyone knows,

Manuel weisbord is a close personal friend of ray luca.

Senator deming, you wanna talk to me about personal vendettas now?

Mr. Chairman, it's my feeling

And I'm sure the others agree with me as well,

That if what mr. Abrams says is true,

You've got no business on this committee.

Recess until tomorrow.

We lose deming, these hearings are dead.

Order in the hearing room!

My esteemed colleague, senator deming,

Has regretfully decided to remove himself from this committee.

He feels he has no choice in view of the information

Brought forward yesterday by mr. Abrams.

We will miss his council. And certainly his vast knowledge.

It has been agreed that I will act as chairman

Of this committee in his absence.

proceed.

When it was suggested that mr. Luca

Be provided with immunity, what was your response, sir?

I thought it was a swell idea.

As it turned out, ray luca is a businessman

Importing from all over the world.

Yes, sir. But what does he import?

- Hoola-hoops, dental floss?

I really don't recall. What I do know

Is that, like a number of businessmen we know,

Mr. Luca travels extensively

And is in a unique position to provide us

With information of a very sensitive nature.

What sort of information?

Information regarding, for example,

Anti-american activities.

Are you saying ray luca

Is some sort of intelligence agent for our government?

Senator gaspari,

Let's just put it this way.

He has proved to be an invaluable asset.

And whatever his past,

This lt. Colonel believes the man is a patriot.

Thank you.

Are there any further questions for the colonel?

Thank you, colonel dance.

We appreciate your testimony.

You're excused.

The committee calls walter clemmons.

- Excuse me! - Who you calling?

- What the hell's going on? - Who you calling, ray luca?

We got something we know you want to see.

Come on. You expect me to believe that?

You can believe what you want, senator. It's what happened.

But mr. Senterro has refuted his statements.

Senterro is involved in this up to his eyeballs.

The only reason he's recounting his statement

Is he's more afraid of luca then he is of us!

Jorge!

Jorge!

No!

Thank you for your testimony, mr. Clemmons.

What the heck is it with you guys?

You have no right to grab me and throw me in a room like this.

- Sit down. - You gave up your rights

When you started killing innocent people and stopped soldiering.

What the hell are you talking about?

Murder, dance.

This is the copy of a car rental agreement. Here, read it!

There's a lot of information that comes right back to you.

The car was driven by your man, gavin,

The night he killed joe krinsky.

And it was rented by you. Here's the contract.

Did you remember that night, colonel? Huh?

Huh?

Is torello there?

Mike.

You want to tell me what's going on?

- What story you're really working on? - I'll tell you later.

Right now I'm in trouble. I may need your help.

- Where are you? - I'm in phone booth outside the horseshoe-

Oh, mike.

Joe?

Joe? Hello?

Joe!

To the best of my recollection, I never saw this gavin in my life.

You're a filthy liar! Krinsky knew he was being followed.

He wrote down the license plate numbers and we found it in his notes.

You're going to jail, colonel, for murder!

On top of that, krinsky was checking into the private armies

That run the opium trade out of the shan mountains.

He discovered that one of these armies

Was being led by a general named lao lee.

Lao lee was chiang kai-shek's top honcho.

And lao lee's main man, the king of china white

Is our very own mr. Chen.

Look at this photo that joe took of some of our old friends.

The mexican guy with luca is jorge senterro.

You probably know the other guy.

Yeah our favorite lt. Colonel,

The eagle scout, milton dance.

We've got you colluding with major heroin merchants

And an accessory to the murder of krinsky, who was hot on the story.

You're going away for murder, colonel.

What do you propose?

Detective indelli, what ray luca has accomplished

Is the formation of an underground empire funded by heroin.

Senator gaspari,

That is a preposterous allegation!

You've done nothing from the beginning of this hearing

But subject my client, mr. Luca, to a series of malicious lies!

Isn't that so, mr. Indelli?

- Yes, sir. - Don't you think it's about time

- You put an end to this farce? - No!

It's time we put a stop to the criminal elements in our own government!

- senator, you're out of order.

And I think you're making unfair,

- Unwarranted allegations! - Excuse me, senator.

Lt. Colonel dance would like to testify again.

Lt. Torello, you're out of order!

No, senator baxter! You're the one that's out of order!

Lt. Colonel dance has confided in me

That he forgot to tell the committee something that's very important.

We'll hear the witness.

Senator gaspari, can I have a minute with you, sir?

Colonel dance?

Is it true that elements of our government

Have formed an alliance with organized crime?

No way.

I'll ask you again, colonel dance.

You don't have to.

Colonel dance?

Yes.

Excuse me.

Hey, buddy! Watch it!

Mike, are you sitting down? 'cause this is like-

Yeah, okay, good, yeah. Yeah, okay, hold on.

Yeah. How we doing, pat?

Sit tight, mike. We've almost got it.

- Yeah, what's up? - Listen, mike.

Dance just blew the lid off this place.

He told them everything. He spilled his guts.

He even admitted to the fact that the government

- Turns their head when it comes to luca. - Well that's great.

And luca testifies next.

Oh, this I gotta see.

The indictments are almost ready.

It looks like we're going to finally nail luca

On conspiracy and importation of controlled substances.

- I'll be there as soon as I can. - Right.

All yours.

The committee calls raymond anthony luca.

For the record, please identify yourself, sir.

Ray luca.

Are you a u.S. Citizen?

- Yes. - Are you employed?

I'm a cosmetic salesman.

- For whom do you work? - I'm self-employed.

Mr. Luca,

Colonel dance has testified

That you've been running contraband weapons

To guatemala on behalf of the United States.

- Is this true? - Don't answer it.

No, I want to answer.

No, it's not true, senator.

It's been alleged

That you are an associate of jorge senterro

And have been smuggling heroin

From mexico into the United States.

I refuse to answer, senator,

Under my fifth amendment privileges.

I'd like an answer, mr. Luca.

Yeah, well that's your problem.

Mr. Luca, why do you think mr. Senterro is lying?

Torello threatened him and terrorized him.

Michael torello is a dangerous psychopath.

And he should be put to sleep.

just a minute, mr. Luca.

Isn't that a little like the pot calling the kettle black?

I'd like to remind the members of this committee

That mr. Luca is a known figure in organized crime

With little reason to bear any love

For lt. Torello or the justice department.

Isn't that a fair statement, mr. Luca?

I refuse to answer, senator,

Under my fifth amendment privileges.

Ladies and gentlemen, I've just been informed

That the north vietnamese have attacked

One of our war ships in the gulf of tonkin.

we have returned fire.

The president has requested our presence immediately.

This hearing stands adjourned until further notice.

What the hell is this? What's going on?

Tonkin. Whatever the hell that is.

It's a military emergency, mike. Vietnam.

- Vietnam? - Yeah.

Is that it?

I've got the indictments right here.

Hey, boss. Can I fly the plane?

We don't fix cops or judges.

We fix small countries.

International enterprise.

That's our future, manny.

Governments become our partners.

We go worldwide.

My generation

Put our organization together.

Took us out of the streets.

Made us an american business.

Now you can make us international.

That's why I believed in you, ray.

Even through the worst of times.

You have something very few others posses.

You have vision.

Yeah, this is it, pauli. We're on top of the world.

Ray?

Everything all right? To the new life.

Yeah, a new life.

As a man without a country.

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