Ferriola, a New Yorker who had served in South Korea and Bosnia, started the lawsuit because he was assigned to Iraq even though he had told the Army in June 2004 that he was resigning because his eight-year term expired in February 2004.

Before initiating his lawsuit, and subsequently being discharged, Ferriola was allegedly told that he would have to deploy to Iraq for an 18 month mission.

With the approval of his top captains and consiglieri Tony Accardo, Ferriola had decided it was time to kill troublemaker Anthony Spilotro for causing a multitude of problems in Las Vegas and in Chicago.

* Sept. 1997-Feared hitman Harry Aleman, nephew of one-time Outfit frontman Joe Ferriola, was retried for the murder of Teamster William Logan and sent to prison, based on testimony by former Outfit attorney Robert Cooley and evidence which showed the first trial would never have come back with a guilty verdict, because the judge in the first case took a $ 10, 000 bribe to acquit Aleman.

He had decided to appoint Joseph Ferriola as boss.

Joe Ferriola closed the meeting with, " OK, that's it, I got nothin ' else.

Jay J. Ferriola ( born 1973 ) is a U. S. Army captain who sued the United States government to prevent him from being deployed to Iraq after completing eight years of military service.

Instead, Calabrese testified that he and Marcello — and about 10 other mobsters, including Louis Eboli, Louis Marino, John DiFronzo, Sam " Wings " Carlisi and Joseph Ferriola -- strangled the Spilotro brothers and beat them to death.

* Jan. 1986-Joe Ferriola was appointed boss of The Outfit.

Cruz was the nephew of alleged Outfit front boss Joseph Ferriola and the cousin of convicted " hitman " Harry Aleman.

11, 1989-Outfit frontman Joe Ferriola died at a Houston, TX, hospital after receiving his second heart transplant.

* Sept. 9, 2008-Alleged Outfit boss Nicholas Ferriola, son of one-time Outfit frontman Joe Ferriola, was convicted of running a gambling operation and of extorting a Chicago pizza chain.

The prevailing view in the industry was summed up in 1912 by a group of auto makers who told a Senate committee: `` The exceedingly unsatisfactory and uselessly expensive conditions, including delays surrounding legal disputes, particularly in patent litigation, are items of industrial burden which must be written large in figures of many millions of dollars of industrial waste ''.

Captain Cardenas subsequently told reporters that the cars and their escort had been fired on by a group, as they neared the penitentiary.

Clive Stafford Smith, Legal Director of the UK branch of the human rights group Reprieve, said " We are told that al-Libi committed suicide in his Libyan prison.

Eisenstein's solution was to shun narrative structure by eliminating the individual protagonist and tell stories where the action is moved by the group and the story is told through a clash of one image against the next ( whether in composition, motion, or idea ) so that the audience is never lulled into believing that they are watching something that has not been worked over.

: Jeha ( as he is known in the Middle East where this story was told ) was being pestered by a large group of children who were following him and making fun of him.

On 9 March 2005, Crowe revealed to GQ magazine that Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agents had approached him prior to the 73rd Academy Awards on 25 March 2001 and told him that the Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda wanted to kidnap him.

He was once told that " a lot of those stations still think you're a black group because the sound feels funky and black.

The members of The Band gradually came together as a part of Toronto-based, rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins's backing group, the Hawks: Helm, an original Hawk who journeyed with Hawkins from Arkansas to Ontario, then Robertson who was told by Hawkin's ," You won't make much money but you'll get more pussy than Frank Sinatra ", Danko, Manuel and finally, Hudson.

Mary Martin told Dylan to visit the group at the Yonge Street club called the Le Coq d ' Or Tavern – though Robbie Robertson recollects it was the Friar's Tavern, just down the street.

As in the case of myth, these narratives are believed because they construct and reinforce the worldview of the group within which they are told, or “ because they provide us with coherent and convincing explanations of complex events ”.

Tubman told the tale of one voyage with a group of fugitive slaves, when morale sank and one man insisted he was going to go back to the plantation.

The Skeptical School of early Chinese history, started by Gu Jiegang in the 1920s, was the first group of scholars within China to seriously question the traditional story of its early history: " the later the time, the longer the legendary period of earlier history ... early Chinese history is a tale told and retold for generations, during which new elements were added to the front end ".

* Dinah Dean's series of historical novels are set against the background of the Napoleonic Wars and are told from a Russian perspective – " The Road to Kaluga ", " Flight From the Eagle ", " The Eagle's Fate ", " The Wheel of Fortune ", " The Green Gallant " – follow a small group of soldiers ( and their relatives ) over months of campaigning from the fall of Moscow up to the liberation of Paris, the last 3 books – " The Ice King ", " Tatya's Story ", " The River of Time " – fall some years later but have the same cast of characters.

The capability is very rare ; in " The Andorian Incident ", the Andorians, whose technology is far superior to Starfleet's in many regards, are explicitly stated not to possess the technology, and in " Chosen Realm ", a group of alien religious extremists who hijack the ship is unaware of it to the point that when Archer, choosing himself when their leader insists on sacrificing a crew member, takes the captain at his word when told that the device disintegrates matter rather than teleporting it.

Lustig told the group that the upkeep on the Eiffel Tower was so outrageous that the city could not maintain it any longer, and wanted to sell it for scrap.

Blaine emerged and told the crowd " I saw something very prophetic ... a vision of every race, every religion, every age group banding together, and that made all this worthwhile.

Dull Knife's group was first offered food and firewood, and then after a week and a half, they were to told to go back to Indian territory.

One group was told that the people they would call would be generous and the collection would be very successful.

One group was told this was to assess the woman for a job as a librarian, while a second group were told it was for a job in real estate sales.

Another group were told the opposite.

Half of each group were told that the experimental results supported the existence of ESP, while the others were told they did not.

The extensive influence The Outfit had over Hollywood is best illustrated in 1948 when boss Tony Accardo told Roselli to force powerful Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn into signing then-unknown actress Marilyn Monroe to a lucrative multi-year contract.

However, in 1957 Ricca suddenly told Accardo that he wanted Sam Giancana, a Ricca protégé, to take Accardo's position.

Dan Morgan told himself he would forget Ann Turner.

I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.

Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.

Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.

If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.

What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.

After making a short statement about human rights, and the freedom to travel, I told them I would be going to the Kehl bridge the next morning in order to cross the Rhine into Germany.

That would be a great help, I told him, thanking him for his thoughtfulness.

A volunteer food brigade had been arranged, they told me, which would supply me with the necessities as long as I remained at the bridge.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.

Baker put the `` cribs '' and the saloons out of bounds, ordered the co-operation of military officers with local law authorities, and told communities that the troops would be moved unless wholesome conditions were restored.

Lewis told him what clothes he should bring along, and enjoined him not to buy anything that he did not already own, they would do that in New York.

When he was in the war, he was in Law or Supplies or something like that, and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals -- just like the one we sent in for Trig -- and go away with a real glow.

McFeeley told the parents he would escort them to police headquarters in a half hour.

At their meeting he told her not to bother about `` where '' -- he would attend to that.

`` I would say depressed, not impressed '', I told him.

In place of asking salesmen to fill questionnaires, checking their references, interviewing them, asking them to be tried out, he told them he would prefer to test them.