“This isn’t the first time a thing like this has been said against me, and I guess it won’t be the last time as long as my name is Scotto and not Schwartz or O’Hara,” Mr. Scotto said in rejecting the allegation. Undeniably, Mr. Scotto was vulnerable to guilt by association. Anthony Michael Scotto, a son and grandson of dock workers, was born on May 10, 1934, in Brooklyn. Mr. Scotto befriended politicians in New York City, Albany and Washington and toured Brooklyn with Jimmy Carter during Mr. Carter’s successful run for president in 1976. In 1979, federal prosecutors in Manhattan obtained a 70-count indictment charging Mr. Scotto and others with labor racketeering and tax evasion.

Source: International New York Times August 23, 2021 19:18 UTC