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<mask> (; born February 12, 1975), popularly known as <mask>, is an American video game designer, known for his work in the development of the Unreal and Gears of War series. After working at Epic Games from 1992 to 2012, he co-founded Boss Key Productions in 2014. Career
<mask>'s first game was The Palace of Deceit, an adventure title he started at the age of 15. Programmed in Visual Basic, its second version came out when he was 16. Epic Games (1992–2012)
<mask> got his start at Epic Games in 1992, after submitting his game, Dare to Dream, to the company's CEO, Tim Sweeney. Though Dare to Dream did not achieve a great success, it led Bleszinski to work on Jazz Jackrabbit, a platformer co-developed by demoscene coder Arjan Brussee. The title, which came out in 1994, became Epic's biggest selling game at the time, earning him enough money to buy his first apartment and car.It was also around this time that he joined Sweeney and James Schmalz on what would become Unreal, which received a follow-up, Unreal Tournament, and expanded into a series of games. In addition to his work on the Unreal series, Bleszinski served as creative consultant on Rune, and as lead designer on the first three installments of the Gears of War franchise, which has sold over 22 million copies and earned over one billion in revenue as of January 2014. Gears of War evolved out of the development of what was going to be a game called Unreal Warfare. As <mask> explained in a speech at GDC 2007 entitled "Designing Gears of War: Iteration Wins," the game started out as another first-person shooter in the Unreal universe. Over time, however, influenced by the cover mechanic in Namco's 2003 game Kill Switch and the third-person Resident Evil 4, Unreal Warfare became the game known as Gears of War. After 20 years with the company, <mask> announced his departure from Epic Games on October 3, 2012, saying he had been making video games since he was a teen and wanted to take a break. According to a 2015 interview, his original intention was to retire permanently."I honestly thought I was done... It was a combination of gamers feeling jaded, as well as working with some very talented people who were also very jaded," Bleszinski told Destructoid. "I could pitch the most amazing idea to anybody back when I was at Epic toward the end, and they'd be like 'I don't buy it,'" he added. Boss Key Productions (2014–2018)
On June 30, 2014, <mask> announced on Twitter that he was "coming out of retirement to make video games again" and would be unveiling his next project in the next week. The new game, a free-to-play, PC-focused arena shooter code-named BlueStreak, would be published by Nexon and developed by his new studio, Boss Key Productions, which he co-founded with Brussee the same year. A year later, Bleszinski revealed that the arena shooter would be called LawBreakers. <mask> was offered an opportunity to work on the Silent Hill franchise by Hideo Kojima, vice president of Konami Digital Entertainment."I was flattered but declined," he wrote on Twitter. In May 2016, he joined the board of advisers for Fig, a mixed crowd-funding/investment platform for video games. On May 14, 2018, Bleszinski announced the dissolution of Boss Key Productions, citing lackluster sales. Later career (2018–present)
After closure of Boss Key, <mask> has gotten involved with theater production. He invested and co-produced Hadestown, and plans to be similarly involved with a revival of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. He also seeks to publish a memoir of his gaming career, comparing the work to Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential. He has also expressed interest in returning to the Gears of War series as an advisor.Personal life
<mask> is married to <mask> (née Berggren), a former professional gamer and id Software employee. Previously, he was married to a woman named Darcy. One of his brothers is <mask>, the founder of Polygon sister site and Vox Media progenitor SB Nation. Their father, who died when <mask> was 15, was an engineer for Polaroid. The nickname "<mask>" was given to him derogatorily by "some jock kid" when he was a shy teenager; he then took it and developed a tougher persona around it. However, in 2008 he expressed a desire to retire the moniker, saying it's "time to grow up a bit". In 1988, at 13, <mask> appeared in the first issue of Nintendo Power for earning the high score of 9,999,950 in Super Mario Bros.Regarding the achievement, in a 2017 interview with Rolling Stone he commented: "That was probably one of the moments when I realized, deep-down and subconsciously, I wanted to be a 'name' in this business of video games." He also went to the Nintendo World Championships when he was 15, coming in second in Massachusetts. In 1998, Bleszinski rose to fame when he held a contest inviting visitors of his website to scan their cats on flatbed scanners and submit the photos for judging. In 2000, PC Gamer called Bleszinski one of the "Next Game Gods" in the cover of its November issue, believing that he would eventually become an "industry legend." Wired magazine awarded him a Rave Award in 2007 for his work on Gears of War. On April 12, 2010, he appeared on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, where he showed the debut trailer for Gears of War 3 and cited Space Invaders as the game that initially inspired him. Bleszinski has opened two bars in Raleigh, North Carolina, one in 2014, called The Station, and another one in 2015, The Raleigh Beer Garden.Credits

Video games
 The Palace of Deceit (1991)
 Dare to Dream (1993)
 Jazz Jackrabbit (1994)
 Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (1998)
 Unreal (1998)
 Unreal Tournament (1999)
 Rune (2000)
 Unreal Tournament 2003 (2002)
 Unreal II: The Awakening (2003)
 Unreal Tournament 2004 (2004)
 Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict (2005)
 Gears of War (2006)
 Gears of War 2 (2008)
 Shadow Complex (2009)
 Bulletstorm (2011)
 Gears of War 3 (2011)
 Superhot (2016) (co-designer of an arena stage)
 LawBreakers (2017)
Radical Heights (cancelled)

Filmography
 Stay Alive (2006) (consultant)
 Various Mega64 skits
 Jake and Amir, episode "The Hot Date" (2011) (played himself)
 Sonic for Hire, episode "Gears of War" (2013) (played himself)
 Video Game High School, season 2 episode 1 (2013)
 Starbomb, "I Choose You TO DIE!!!" (2014)
 Video Games: The Movie (2014) (producer, interviewed)
 The Jimquisition, episode "The Golden Sins of Horror Games" (2015) (played himself)
Gears of War (TBA) (executive producer, consultant)

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 Personal website at the Internet Archive (December 5, 2000)
 <mask>ski Reddit Questionnaire (September 14, 2012)
 <mask>ski Reddit Questionnaire (July 9, 2014)

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American atheists
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People from Boston
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<mask>. (; born 27 April 1985) is an Argentine professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 39, and his career-high doubles ranking is world No. 3 (first reached in September 2019). In doubles, he has reached the men's doubles finals at the 2019 US Open and Wimbledon 2021 alongside Marcel Granollers. In singles, he has reached the fourth round at the French Open, doing so in 2017. <mask> won his first ATP title at the 2013 VTR Open in Chile on 10 February.In the final, he beat Rafael Nadal, becoming one of only four players (with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray) to beat Nadal in a clay-court final. He has also reached the final in the St. Petersburg Open in Russia, losing to Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky. He reached the doubles final at the Movistar Open in Santiago, Chile in 2010 with partner Potito Starace. They lost to top seeds Łukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach. He won the title in doubles at the Copa Telmex with Sebastián Prieto. Zeballos won the 2009 ATP Newcomer of the Year award. Personal life
<mask> is an Argentine of Spanish descent.He enjoys music, ping-pong, and swimming. His father is also named <mask> <mask>, and his mother is named Carolina. He has one sister, Carolina Jr. His favorite surface is clay, and he is coached by Alejandro Lombardo. Tennis career
Zeballos has competed primarily on the ATP Challenger Tour, where he has won five singles titles and six doubles titles. 2009: First ATP singles final
He reached his first ATP Tour final at the St. Petersburg Open, defeating Yuri Schukin, Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr., Ernests Gulbis and Igor Kunitsyn before falling in the final to Stakhovsky in a third-set tiebreak. 2010: First ATP doubles title
Zeballos started the singles season in a slump, falling in the first round four times, but had an excellent start to the doubles season. In his first tournament, the Heineken Open, Zeballos and Rogier Wassen defeated world no.1 team Bob and Mike Bryan. Zeballos then reached the round of 16 at the Australian Open with countryman Leonardo Mayer, and reached the final at the Movistar Open with Italian Potito Starace. Zeballos then turned to the clay in the Copa Telmex in Argentina, where in the first round, he defeated countryman and former French Open champion Gastón Gaudio. It was <mask>' first ATP singles win since he reached the final in St. Petersburg. Zeballos next defeated former world no. 1 Carlos Moyá and reached his first ATP quarterfinal since October, where he then lost to countryman Juan Mónaco. In doubles, Zeballos and countryman Sebastián Prieto were the fourth seeds and won the title against Simon Greul and Peter Luczak.It was <mask>' first career ATP title. The next week, at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Zeballos lost in the first round to Łukasz Kubot. He made it to the doubles semifinals, with partner Mónaco. <mask> was selected for the Argentine Davis Cup team for the first time. He played doubles with David Nalbandian against the Swedish pair of Robert Lindstedt and Robin Söderling. They won in straight sets. Zeballos reached a career milestone as he defeated his first-ever top-25 player, 24th ranked Gilles Simon, in the second round at the Sony Ericsson Open.He then lost in the third round to eventual finalist Tomáš Berdych. At the US Men's Clay Court Championships, he defeated Taylor Dent, Dudi Sela, and world no. 11 Fernando González for his first top-15 win and the biggest one of his career. He then faced eventual champion Juan Ignacio Chela in the semifinals, where he lost in straight sets. At the US Open, Zeballos with partner Eduardo Schwank reached the semifinals in doubles. 2011-2012
Zeballos played mostly on the Challenger circuit in singles. He did not make it past the second round in any ATP events.He had more success in doubles. In 2012, he made it to the semifinals in Viña de Mar and Buenos Aires. At Roland Garros, he and partner Oliver Marach made it to the quarterfinals, where they were beaten by the Bryan brothers. 2013: First ATP singles title
<mask> won his first ATP singles title at Viña del Mar, where he defeated Rafael Nadal in three sets in his comeback tournament. This victory made Zeballos one of the only four players who have beaten Nadal in a final on clay (the others are Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray). 2017: French Open fourth round in singles
Zeballos' first match in the 2017 Australian Open was a 5-hour and 15 minute loss to Ivo Karlović, the second longest match by time at the Australian Open in the Open Era. At Roland Garros, he had his best performance at a Grand Slam, reaching the fourth round.He was beaten by 6th seed Dominic Thiem in straight sets. 2019-2021: New partnership & Doubles success: US Open final, Top 3 debut, Four ATP Masters titles, Wimbledon final
<mask> won his first ATP Masters 1000 Doubles Title at the 2019 BNP Paribas Open with Nikola Mektić. They defeated sixth-seeded Łukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo in the final. <mask> became the first ATP Masters doubles champion from Argentina since 1997 after Luis Lobo at the Hamburg Masters. With his new partner Marcel Granollers he has won 6 titles thus far, starting in August 2019, and also made his first Grand Slam doubles final at the 2019 US Open, losing to the World No. 1 and top seeded pair Farah/Cabal. As a result he reached a career-high ranking of World No.3 in doubles on 9 September 2019. The pair won 3 Masters 1000: the 2019 Canadian Open, the 2020 Italian Open and the 2021 Mutua Madrid Open. They also reached the 2021 Wimbledon Championships final losing to World No. 1 and top seeds Mektic/Pavic. In August 2021, they reached a second Masters 1000 final for 2021 and fourth overall at the 2021 Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati defeating Arévalo/Fognini. They defeated Austin Krajicek and Steve Johnson in the final to win their fourth Masters. Significant finals

Grand Slam tournament finals

Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 5 (5 titles)

ATP career finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Doubles: 33 (18 titles, 15 runner-ups)

Challenger finals: 23 (12–11)

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Current through 2018 Wimbledon.Doubles
Current through the 2022 Australian Open. References

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<mask> (March 19, 1845 – October 24, 1929) was an American lawyer, anti-imperial activist, and civil rights leader based in Boston, Massachusetts. According to <mask>'s biographer, William B. Hixson, Jr., he had a worldview that embodied "pacifism, anti-imperialism, and racial egalitarianism fully as much as it did laissez-faire and moral tone in government." Storey served as the founding president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), serving from 1909 to his death in 1929. He opposed United States expansionism beginning with the Spanish–American War. Early life
Moorfield <mask> was born in 1845 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, then a suburb of Boston. His family was descended from the earliest Puritan settlers in New England and had close connections with the abolitionist movement. <mask>'s father was a Boston lawyer.The young Storey went to the Boston Latin School and graduated in 1862, during the beginning of the Civil War. He then continued onto Harvard, where he was a member of the Glee Club, graduating in 1866, and then studied at Harvard Law School. In a speech almost thirty years later at Cambridge University, Storey discussed the mindset of the young men of his generation, stating that "a great movement for intellectual, religious, and political freedom was just culminating..."

Friendship with Edward Waldo Emerson and the Emerson family

Storey was longtime friends with Edward Waldo Emerson, son of famous American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. The two were in the same graduating class at Harvard. Just after their graduation, Storey was one of two friends that accompanied Emerson on a camping trip. Also among the party was the elder Emerson, as well as Transcendentalist poet William Ellery Channing. The camping party encountered a fierce storm on their second night out, and Storey worked to lighten the mood by singing through storm, with the younger Emerson joining in to sing the chorus.The event is recorded in Ralph Waldo Emerson's journals of the time. The two men's friendship continued for the next several decades, and they wrote a biography of former United States Attorney General Ebenezer R. Hoar together in 1911. Time with Charles Sumner

From 1867 to 1869, Storey was a clerk for the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and served as a private secretary to its chairman, Senator Charles Sumner. Storey was introduced to Sumner through his father, and moved to the Senator's house after his graduation from Harvard University. He accepted the position as it seemed the best route to continue his legal studies. Storey spent two years of his life as the Senator's right-hand man and one of his only friends, as the progressive Sumner had made many enemies in Washington. During his tenure, he initially supported the removal of President Andrew Johnson from office but soon became disenchanted by what he viewed as the corruption and opportunism of politicians on both sides.He was admitted to the bar in 1869. Career
Storey established a law practice in Boston, Massachusetts as a founding partner of the firm Storey, Thorndike, Palmer, Dodge (Currently "Locke Lord LLP"). From 1873 to 1879 he was editor of the American Law Review. He was elected president of the American Bar Association in 1896, and was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as president of the Massachusetts Bar Association during 1913–14. He was a well-known person in the "Mugwump" movement of 1884, and actively supported Grover Cleveland. As a strong believer in the gold standard, freedom of contract, and property rights, Storey opposed the candidacy of William Jennings Bryan and supported the National Democratic Party (Gold Democrats) third-party ticket in 1896.In 1887 he built a house on Great Cranberry Island. An opponent of military intervention, Storey spoke at the first anti-imperialist mass meeting in Boston in June 1898, called because of the Spanish–American War. He was a vice president of the New England Anti-Imperialist League. In addition, he wrote a book brief for the Lodge Committee summarizing the war crimes of the Philippine–American War. From 1905 until its dissolution in 1921 Storey was the Anti-Imperialist League's President. He perceived that "national subjugation overseas and racial persecution at home were related," which drove his efforts at reform. Storey was known to work 16-hour days, even into his later years.He was a fighter for unpopular issues, and as Bliss Perry wrote in his obituary for Storey, he was "usually in the minority at any given time." <mask> himself was quoted as saying "It is not success to fight on the winning side. It is success to fight bravely for a principle even if one does not live to see it triumph." This determination to fight for the right, even if he did not win, led him to cross political swords with Presidents William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and United States Secretary of War Elihu Root. 1900 Congressional campaign
Late in the campaign of 1900, <mask> seriously pondered running for president on a third-party ticket but decided against it as impractical. Instead, he ran a losing, but spirited and high-profile campaign for Congress as an independent anti-imperialist candidate. Other planks in his platform included support for the gold standard and free trade.Champion of civil rights
One of Storey's favorite quotes was from his dear friend, Irish lawyer Lord Russel, which stated that the definition of civilization was that "Its true signs are thoughts for the poor and suffering, chivalrous regard and respect for woman, the frank recognition of human brotherhood, irrespective of race or color or nation or religion, the narrowing of the domain of mere force as a governing factor in the world, the love of ordered freedom, abhorrence of what is mean and vile, ceaseless devotion to the claims of justice." Storey used this quotation as inspiration for both his political career and his championship of civil rights. Storey consistently and aggressively championed civil rights, not only for blacks but also for American Indians and immigrants. He opposed immigration restrictions, and supported racial equality and self-determination. "When the white man governs himself, that is self-government," he declared, "but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government–that is despotism." <mask> was the first President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), from its founding in 1909 until his death in 1929. According to his biographer Hixson, he "launched and maintained the effective campaign to achieve the total destruction of the legal embodiment of white supremacy."He guided NAACP's legal challenges to discriminatory laws that violated the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments, especially related to disenfranchisement and segregation of blacks in the South, and led several important NAACP legal victories. Most notably, he was lead counsel before the United States Supreme Court in Buchanan v. Warley (1917). In that case, the Court unanimously overturned a Louisville law that racially segregated blacks by specific city blocks. The Court's opinion reflected the jurisprudence of property rights and freedom of contract as embodied in the earlier precedent it had established in Lochner v. New York. On February 17, 1916, he testified in opposition to the nomination of Louis D. Brandeis to the United States Supreme Court. Storey was on the conservative side in the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Storey was, with James Weldon Johnson, the organizer of the 1919 National Conference on Lynching.In 1920 <mask> led the NAACP to take on the defense of the Elaine Twelve in their appeals from convictions for murder and the death penalty. The NAACP raised $50,000 for their defense, hiring two attorneys to manage the appeals in Arkansas. The cases were broken into two tracks because of technical trial issues, and six men (Ware et al.) were retried beginning in May 1920 after their defense team won the first appeal at the state supreme court. Storey worked with the team as the cases of six other men (Moore et al.) later reached the United States Supreme Court. In its ruling in Moore v. Dempsey (1923), the Court set an important precedent for reviewing state criminal cases against the standard of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and application of Bill of Rights to state actions.Later life
In the 1920s, Storey served as the chairperson of the Haiti-Santo Domingo Independence Society and on the advisory committee of the American Fund for Public Service Committee on American Imperialism. He died in Lincoln, Massachusetts in 1929, survived by four of his five children with Gertrude Cutts, whom he had married in 1870. She had died in 1912. His children were <mask> <mask>, <mask> Lovett, <mask>, Gertude <mask> Burke and Katharine <mask> Donald. Legacy
Writer and Editor Damon W. Root touted Storey as an historical role model for libertarian Democrats in a December 2007 article for Reason Magazine. Bibliography

 Charles Sumner (1900) in "American Statesmen Series." The Reform of Legal Procedure (1911).Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, a Memoir (1911), with Edward Waldo Emerson. At Google Books. Problems of To-Day (1920), the E. L. Godkin Lectures delivered at Harvard, March 1920. The Conquest of the Philippines (1926)
 Howe, M.A. DeWolfe. Portrait of an Independent: Moorfield Storey 1845-1929. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1932.Notes

References
 William B. Hixson Jr., Moorfield Storey and the Abolitionist Tradition, Oxford University Press, 1972, . William B. Hixson, "Moorfield Storey and the Struggle for Equality." Journal of American History 55.3 (1968): 533-554 online. 1845 births
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Michael J<mask> (born May 18, 1946), also known as "<mask>", is an American mobster and captain in the Genovese crime family active in their New Jersey faction. It is unknown if he is related to Michael "Trigger Mike" <mask>, who was also a member of the Genovese family. He made national headlines when he went into hiding for 11 years to avoid a possible murder conviction. Early criminal career
<mask> has been working for the Genovese family since the 1960s. He became a made man in the late 1970s and was part of a  Genovese hit team known as "The Fist", according to government documents. This team performed murders ordered by the Genovese administration in the late 1970s and 1980s. <mask> was involved in labor racketeering in the trucking industry and New Jersey docks.<mask> served almost five years in prison from 1979 to 1983 for conspiracy and extortion. <mask> became an acting caporegime (captain) while Tino Fiumara was in prison in the 1980s and 1990s, running the day-to-day activities of the New Jersey faction Fiurama had orders relayed to him. Alleged murder
In 1996, <mask> was charged in the 1977 killing of John "Johnny Cokes" Lardiere. According to authorities, Lardiere was released for 26 hours from prison to spend the Easter holidays with his family. The reason for his sanctioned killing are not fully known, but is speculated that he had turned against the mob and was going to give the FBI information on the mob's influence on garbage hauling. Another story has it that Lardiere entered into a heated argument with Ralph "Blackie" Napoli, a caporegime in the Philadelphia crime family and his death was ordered. When Lardiere got out of his car at a Bridgewater, New Jersey motel, the killer was standing in front of him with a .22 automatic pistol, complete with a silencer.When the gunman squeezed the trigger, the gun jammed. Lardiere was both amused and annoyed by the man and allegedly said "What're you gonna do now, tough guy?". The gunman responded by pulling up his pant leg, and removing a .38 revolver from an ankle holster and shooting Lardiere four times. When police arrived at the crime scene, realizing it was a mob hit, they found the shooter had left behind his weapons and a hat. In 1996, Lucchese crime family mobster Thomas "Tommy" Ricciardi who had been arrested on murder and extortion charges, decided to cooperate with authorities. He told the FBI that Lardiere's killer was <mask>. Ricciardi told police that he heard the entire story of Lardiere's murder from <mask> while talking about mob murders with Michael Taccetta at a party in 1983.Fugitive and arrest
A gun and hat were left at the murder scene. Since the advancement of forensics since 1977, a judge ordered <mask> to submit a DNA test. When the FBI requested a DNA sample on August 8, 1996 which could have proved he was at the murder scene, <mask> fled his Spring Lake, New Jersey home with his wife. He spent most of his time moving between apartments in San Francisco and New York City. During his time on the run, he was featured on America's Most Wanted. Although on the run, authorities believed he was still holding power over organized crime in New Jersey as a fugitive. A fellow New Jersey mobster for the Genovese family and a Furmara/<mask> associate, was charged by the FBI with illegally harboring <mask> during the months before he was caught and arrested.In April 2002, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey obtained an indictment against Fiumara for conspiring to assist <mask> in <mask>'s flight. In March 2003, he pleaded guilty to conspiring to conceal and failing to report that he had been in contact with <mask>. In November, a federal judge ordered Fiumara back to prison for eight months for concealing <mask>'s whereabouts. While on the run, investigators were searching for him in Nevada, Pennsylvania, Florida, Canada, Italy, and Costa Rica. On March 9, 2007, after 11 years on the run <mask> and his wife Linda were found and arrested. While conducting a search of their Upper West Side home they found a book entitled "The Methods of Attacking Scientific Evidence". <mask> pleaded guilty to fugitive charges and was given a 42-month (3 and a half years) sentence.His wife Linda also pleaded guilty to harboring a fugitive and received probation. Louis James Rizzo Jr., <mask>'s step-son, was also convicted for conspiracy to harbor a fugitive and sentenced to 3 years in prison. Rizzo was released on November 10, 2009. Trial
In 2009, the FBI believed that <mask> was going to turn state's evidence against the Genovese family and cooperate with the FBI. The FBI was willing to give him immunity from prosecution and enter him in the Witness Protection Program if he cooperated. The FBI believed he was involved in the killing of Lawrence Ricci (along with his son and stepson) on orders of Tino Fiumara, one of the men the FBI was hoping to prosecute with <mask>'s cooperation. <mask> waived a speedy arraignment and spent the next two nights sleeping at FBI headquarters in lower Manhattan at an undisclosed hotel.He also met with a government arranged lawyer known as a shadow counsel. On the third day, however, <mask> refused to cooperate. His defense lawyer Henry Mazurek said that <mask> only dragged out the process out of concern for his wife, who he feared would also be arrested and charged. In July 2009, <mask> was put on trial for murder, racketeering and extorting the Local 1235 of the International Longshoremen's Association for over 30 years. If found guilty of all counts, he could have faced life imprisonment. Defense lawyer Henry Mazurek told jurors that <mask> admitted to making a "rash" decision to flee, but that it didn't prove he's a killer. "He didn't want to stand trial for a murder he didn't commit," Mazurek said.Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack Dennehy told the jury not to be fooled by <mask>'s claims and that <mask> "ran because he didn't want to face a jury like you. He hid because he didn't want to face a jury like you." Thomas Riccardi testified that <mask> said he did not agree with the Lardiere murder, but that he followed the orders given to him by Tino Fiumara (who was never charged). Genovese family member turned government witness George Barone was also called to aid the prosecution. Barone was such a difficult witness that the prosecutor apparently decided not to ask him about the Lardiere murder. A witness to the murder, Raymond Zychlinski, was called on as a defense witness in the case. Zychlinski refuted the prosecutor's story that Lardiere's killer taunted him and said all he heard was a "horrifying scream".On July 21, 2009, <mask> was acquitted of the murder, partially due to the DNA test proving inconclusive since it matched 11 million white men in America. However, he was found guilty of violating the RICO Act for extortion and possessing false identification while he was a fugitive, which could have imprisoned him for up to 20 years. <mask> nodded and mouthed the words, "It's O.K.," to his wife after the verdict. <mask> was then taken into custody already serving time for his original fugitive sentence in the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn. On December 18, 2009 Judge John Gleeson sentenced <mask> to 16 years in prison. He served most of his time at the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta before being sent to Residential Reentry Management in Brooklyn in 2021. His projected release from federal custody is October 10, 2023.References
<mask> Profile on America's Most Wanted

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Fugitives wanted on organised crime charges
Genovese crime family
American gangsters of Italian descent
Living people
People convicted of racketeering
Gangsters from Newark, New Jersey

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Brigadier <mask>,  (16 September 1896 – 1 January 1968) was an Australian grazier and army officer who served in the First World War and led the 21st Brigade of the Second Australian Imperial Force during its defence of the Kokoda Trail during the Second World War. He had a distinguished career, however, his place in history has largely been unacknowledged due to his dismissal by General Sir Thomas Blamey, at the very point when <mask> had fought the Japanese to exhaustion. His fighting withdrawal over the Kokoda Trail has been called "one of the most critical triumphs in Australian military history and one that an apathetic nation has still to honour". Many contemporaries as well as <mask>' official biographer regard this sacking as one of the most disgraceful actions of Blamey's military career. Following his dismissal, <mask> went on to command the 23rd Brigade during the Bougainville campaign where he earned a reputation for setting high standards. He retired from the military following the end of the war and unsuccessfully pursued a career in politics. He died in 1968, aged 71.Early life
<mask> was born on 16 September 1896 at Peel on the Isle of Man to William, a schoolmaster, and <mask>. In 1904, at the age of eight, <mask>' family emigrated to Western Australia and he attended Cottesloe State School before progressing on to Guilford Grammar School. During his formative years he was a keen sportsman, even despite his short stature, representing Guilford in rowing, football, shooting and athletics. A natural leader, he became a prefect and rose to the rank of colour sergeant in the school's Cadet unit. In 1913, <mask> sat and passed the University of Adelaide's entrance exam for English, geometry and trigonometry. In early 1914 he left Guilford and moved to Pinjarra where he attended Fairbridge Farm School, working as a farmhand. Upon his arrival in Pinjarra, <mask>—having turned 18—progressed from the Senior Cadets to the Citizens Force, after which he transferred to the 86th Infantry Regiment.First World War
Following the outbreak of the First World War <mask> requested to the join the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), a volunteer force that was being formed for active service overseas. On 26 January 1915 he was called up and he was quickly promoted to acting sergeant while still only 18, due both to his prior service and his obvious leadership qualities. He soon earned the respect of his men, most of whom were much older than he. <mask> was posted as a reinforcement to 16th Battalion at Gallipoli in July, just in time to participate in the bloody battles of 7 and 8 August. He stayed with the battalion after it was evacuated from the peninsula in December 1915. In January 1916, <mask> was commissioned second lieutenant. In July 1916, following a period of re-organisation in Egypt, the infantry units of the AIF were transferred to the Western Front in France and Belgium.In August, <mask>, who by this time had been promoted to lieutenant and given command of the 4th Light Trench Mortar Battery, was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry during the Battle of Mouquet Farm. He had led his battery in unstinting support of the rest of the battalion during its advance, even though the battery itself had been almost continually under attack in the most horrendous of conditions. Later in the war, having been promoted to captain, <mask> was able to transfer back to the 16th Battalion and on 6 July 1918, near Hamel, he received a serious gunshot wound in the chest, which he barely survived. Inter war years
As a result of his wounds, <mask> was classified as 20 per cent disabled, and after repatriation in early 1919 he returned to Western Australia where he worked as a jackaroo until he purchased his own farm in Kojonup, Western Australia in 1920. He continued to serve part-time in the Militia, however, in 1922 he was placed on the Reserve of Officers list and effectively retired due to defence cutbacks at the time. In 1926 he married Doreen (Dawn) Wigglesworth. They had three children; David (1928), Judith (1932) and Nancy (1938).His letters to his wife throughout his military career provide an insight into his opinions and feelings on events. In 1938, as tensions in Europe grew, <mask> became involved with the Militia again and was instrumental in the re-formation of the 25th Light Horse Regiment. Second World War
Following the outbreak of the Second World War, <mask> was placed in command of the regiment's 'B' Squadron and he set to work training the young national servicemen that were assigned to the unit following the resumption of the compulsory training scheme. As the provisions of the Defence Act (1903) still precluded the Militia from being sent outside of Australian territory to fight, an all volunteer force was raised for overseas service known as the Second Australian Imperial Force. In April 1940, <mask> requested a transfer to this force and although still suffering from the effects of the wounds he had received in 1918 he was passed medically fit and granted the rank of major. He was assigned to the newly formed 2/16th Battalion. Although by now 44 years of age, he was a dynamic and widely respected officer.He played a key role in staffing the battalion and getting it ready for action in Syria in 1941, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for inspiring leadership at the Battle of the Litani River on 9 and 10 June. His performance during the Syrian campaign was further rewarded with a Mention in Despatches, promotion to lieutenant colonel and command of the 2/16th. Kokoda Trail Campaign

In 1942 <mask> returned to Australia and in April he was promoted to temporary brigadier and given command of the 21st Brigade, stationed in south-east Queensland. At this time the Japanese had established a beachhead on the north coast of New Guinea. It was clear to <mask> that the 21st would soon be fighting in the jungle. He devised and implemented the first specific jungle training for Australian troops. <mask> took his troops up into the Blackall Range, where the thick scrub and steep grades gave these experienced desert fighters an idea of what lay ahead for them.War game exercises indicated that in such country communications would break down, and evacuation of wounded would be difficult. Meanwhile, the Japanese had advanced south from their beachhead at Gona and Buna, and taken the strategic village of Kokoda. General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of South West Pacific Area, was at this time planning a landing on Japanese-held Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Concerned that enemy troops would be withdrawn from Gona to reinforce Guadalcanal, MacArthur asked for a serious commitment of Australian troops to New Guinea. The 21st Brigade was sent to Port Moresby, and the 25th Brigade to Milne Bay. <mask> flew into Port Moresby on 8 August and set up a staging post at Koitaki, close to the start of the trail at Owers Corner. His orders were clear yet daunting: recapture Kokoda so it could be used as a base to push the Japanese back to Gona.At this time the two militia battalions—the 39th and 53rd Battalions—who had been defeated at Kokoda were dug in at Isurava and Alola. These were to join with the three battalions of the 21st to form "Maroubra Force" under <mask>' command. On 16 August his 2/14th started on the long and difficult trail towards Myola. The 2/16th followed the next day, with the 2/27th left at Port Moresby as a reserve. <mask> was promised 40,000 rations would await him at Myola, to be dropped in by Dakota transport planes. The night before beginning the trek, <mask> had learned that a further 1,800 Japanese combat troops had landed at Gona. Despite their jungle training, the Australians found the going incredibly difficult.Captain R.N. Thompson of the 2/14th said "I was one of the fittest members, but on the second day, climbing the Golden Stairs I was extremely fatigued. A small dixie of tea made me vomit and I could not eat." While they struggled over the ranges, the Japanese bombed the Port Moresby airfield, destroying two of the Dakotas. When <mask> reached Myola he found only 5,000 rations. Mystery and controversy abound regarding the missing rations. <mask> seems to have harboured doubts about the air drops, as he had each soldier carry five days' rations to Myola.Without rations, the 2/14th and 2/16th could not continue on to reinforce the more advanced militia battalions at Alola and Isurava. <mask> made his way forward to Alola and assumed command of Maroubra Force from Brigadier Selwyn Porter on 23 August 1942. When he saw the shattered state of the 39th Battalion, he realised that to achieve his aims he would need to bring forward the relatively fresh 21st Brigade troops. Before he had a chance to implement this, the Japanese under Major General Tomitaro Horii attacked the 39th at Isurava on 26 August. For four days the Australians held off the enemy who had superiority in numbers and supplies. <mask> moved in the 2/14th and 2/16th to support. The Japanese held elevated positions on either side of the main trail, and were able to hammer Maroubra Force with mortar and machine gun fire.Threatened with encirclement, <mask> withdrew in stages, mounting small delaying actions where possible. Maroubra Force reached Efogi on 5 September. On 3 September <mask> had received orders from his superior in Port Morseby, Major General Arthur "Tubby" Allen, to hold Myola and gather for an offensive. However he considered the dry lake bed at Myola, surrounded by heights, as untenable. The following day, he signalled Allen, stating: "Country unsuitable for defended localities. Regret necessity abandon Myola. No reserves for counter-attack."<mask> destroyed all supplies at Myola and moved south to the next suitable feature, Brigade Hill. <mask> had been pleading with Allen for some time to be given his third battalion, the 2/27th. MacArthur insisted they stay at Port Moresby until success was gained at Milne Bay. Finally Allen released the 2/27th, who came up to join Maroubra Force at Kagi on 4 September, relieving the 39th Battalion. When the 2/14th and 2/16th arrived on 6 September, <mask> finally had a full brigade. He aimed at holding each position for maximum time and at maximum cost to the enemy, before withdrawing. He was aware that with each mile back towards Port Moresby the Japanese supply and communication line became longer and more fragile.Battle of Brigade Hill

Maroubra Force dug in on Brigade Hill, and awaited an attack. After dark on 6 September Horii's pursuing force appeared, slowly and carefully coming down the steep slope opposite the Australian position, their way lit by "lanterns" made of pieces of smouldering Australian rubber-coated signal wire. Horii patiently took his troops in a wide encircling movement around the Australians, despite a bombing raid called in by the alarmed <mask>. Next morning <mask> signalled Allen; "Will not give ground if you guarantee my line of communication ... full of fight, but physically below par, mainly feet and dysentery ... Respectfully consider offensive ops require more than one Bde [brigade] task." At 4.30 am on 8 September the attack came, initially frontal, then a flank attack of 5,000 men cut off Potts' Brigade HQ battalion from the rest of the force. At times the enemy were just  from the edge of Potts' perimeter. The signal wire had been cut by now, and communications with the battalions were shaky.A message got through by wireless transmitter, that if as seemed likely the HQ was wiped out, Major Anthony Caro, commander of 2/16th was to take command of the Brigade and fall back to Menari. <mask> and his HQ were saved by the fact that Horii did not concentrate forces on eliminating them, instead maintaining overall pressure to try to annihilate all three battalions. 2/14th and 2/16th charged the Japanese lines but failed to break through to HQ. However the damage inflicted on the enemy was crucial in slowing their pursuit, as <mask> made his way to Menari. He left orders for the battalions to make their own way and rejoin him there. As the Japanese controlled the main trail, all three battalions had to take rough secondary tracks or go cross country. One major difference from battles in other theatres of the war was the burden of the wounded on their unit.They could not be left for the enemy to care for, as had been the case in Syria. Years later <mask> recalled "We had to sit in the jungle listening to the screams of comrades tortured by the Japanese in an attempt to provoke an attack". Papuan bearers were not used in battle zones, so the wounded had to be carried by their comrades, slowing them down. 2/14th and 2/16th left their wounded to be carried by 2/27th, the last battalion to withdraw. 120 men at a time were engaged carrying stretcher cases. Many severely wounded men walked to free a stretcher for someone worse off than themselves. The Japanese pursued the 2/27th, but an audacious counterattack by 'B' and 'D' Companies bought the Australian rearguard some time.The adjutant of the 2/27th, Captain Harry Katekar, was quoted as saying, "The Japs were so shocked they

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 broke contact. We didn't see them again that day". The 2/14th and 2/16th Battalions slept where they fell on the trail on the night of 8 September, but managed to re-unite with Potts and 21st Brigade headquarters at Menari the next day. The 2/27th Battalion was unable to reach the village before the rest of the brigade was again forced to retreat by the advancing Japanese. Menari was extremely exposed to observation from further up the trail, and the village was already under barrage from Japanese artillery and light machine guns by the time the first 2/16th troops arrived. <mask> waited for the 2/27th until 2.30 pm, then gave orders to abandon Menari. The 2/27th and their cargo of wounded from the other battalions were forced to follow paths parallel to the main trail, but eventually rejoined the main Australian force at Jawarere.Rowell relieves <mask>
During the Battle of Brigade Hill an Intelligence officer, Captain Geoff Lyon arrived from Port Moresby, sent by Allen to give him an on-the-ground assessment. He was able to contact <mask>, and relayed to Allen the situation as it was at that moment—dire. Allen responded with a signal to <mask>:
"Has [Lyon's] message been sent with your approval? Is situation stated correct? Advise immediately." <mask>, under close attack and facing being wiped out, replied simply "Message confirmed". It was at this point that the commander of New Guinea Force, Lieutenant General Sydney Rowell decided to recall <mask> to Port Moresby, returning Porter to command of the 21st Brigade.Rowell's motives have been debated, but they appear to be a combination of frustration at the lack of forward movement, and a desire to have a first hand account of the situation. Rowell did not consult with Allen. He also sent a message to Major General George Alan Vasey, Deputy Chief of General Staff, informing him of <mask>' removal. He continued "I trust you appreciate the gravity of immediate situation, and will produce additional troops asked for particularly infantry, with minimum delay". When <mask> arrived back in Port Moresby on 12 September Allen organised a meeting between <mask>, Rowell and himself. Given a chance to relate the difficulties he had faced, and correct some misapprehensions, it appears <mask> was able to mollify Rowell. Soon after, war correspondent Chester Wilmot, who had also been over the Owen Stanley Ranges on foot and seen the fighting, was able to corroborate <mask>' account in a meeting with Rowell.Kokoda Trail Campaign after <mask>' removal
Subsequent events serve to illustrate <mask>' difficulties, and his success against the odds in command of the 21st Brigade. <mask> handed over to Porter on 10 September at Nauro. Porter's first move was towards Port Moresby—to higher ground at Ioribiwa. Here he was joined by the 25th Brigade under Brigadier Ken Eather. With fresh troops, fighting an overstretched enemy, Eather still found he needed to withdraw to Imita Ridge. Rowell acceded to this request, but instructed Allen "any further withdrawal is out of the question". In August the Americans had landed at Guadalcanal.Now the Japanese hierarchy ordered Horii to make a fighting withdrawal to the Gona/Buna beachhead. The quick fall of Port Moresby they had anticipated had not come about, and as the campaign dragged on it was proving a drain on men and materiel needed elsewhere. After dealing with the American incursion at Guadalcanal, a new attack over the mountains of Papua could begin. <mask>' initial task had been to retake the village of Kokoda. In the end the 25th Brigade walked in and took vacant possession on 2 November, the Japanese having abandoned it some time before. The Japanese were by now a shadow of the powerful force that had faced <mask> in August. The survivors were riddled with dysentery and starving.Some evidence points to cannibalism. Japanese war correspondent Seizo Okada reported that after receiving the order to return to Buna, "for a time the soldiers remained stupefied among the rocks on the mountain side. Then they began to move, and once in retreat they fled for dear life ... discipline was completely forgotten". <mask> loses a supporter
On 12 September General Sir Thomas Blamey visited Port Moresby. At this point Maroubra Force (still under <mask>) had withdrawn to Ioribiwa, but nearby the fresh 25th Brigade under Eather were about to step into the breach. Allen and Rowell were confident of prompt success against a clearly exhausted enemy, and Blamey was easily convinced to share their optimism. There were smiles all round as he flew back to Australia.He briefed Prime Minister John Curtin and the rest of the Advisory War Council on 17 September. Despite being met with some scepticism, Blamey supported his officers and maintained that there was nothing to fear—Port Moresby was safe from land attack. That night Curtin received a call from MacArthur, who had just heard about Eather's withdrawal to Imita Ridge. MacArthur told Curtin to send Blamey back to Papua to take personal command of New Guinea Force. Curtin did so, and Blamey arrived in Port Moresby on 23 September. This put Rowell and Blamey on a collision course. They had a history of animosity going back to earlier in the war, first in the Middle East then in Greece.Rowell felt that Blamey should have supported him and stood up to Curtin and MacArthur. Relations were fractious, and on 28 September Rowell had had enough. He spoke his mind to his commanding officer, and was dismissed. <mask> had just lost his major advocate in Papua. Blamey confronts <mask>
On 9 October the 21st Brigade regained their start point at Koitaki. Before the last troops had even made it in from the jungle, Allen asked for a parade. He passed on a personal message from Curtin to the Brigade, for "saving Port Moresby and thus Australia".On 22 October Blamey visited Koitaki at short notice. He requested a private audience with <mask>, and Brigade HQ was vacated. Potts' Staff Captain Ken Murdoch was deeply involved in paperwork and somehow remained to witness the "private" conversation. According to Murdoch, <mask>, fresh from Allen's glowing endorsement, began by extolling the virtues of his men, and expressed satisfaction with the boost to home front morale they had been able to provide. Blamey cut him short. He relieved <mask> of his command, citing <mask>' failure to hold back the Japanese, despite commanding "superior forces". Further, <mask> had failed to re-take Kokoda despite explicit orders to do so.Blamey explained that Prime Minister John Curtin had told him to say that failures like Kokoda campaign would not be tolerated. Murdoch reports Blamey saying "the men had shown that something was lacking" and that their leaders were to blame. <mask> furiously rejected any blame being attached to his battalion commanders. Blamey was not interested in debating the finer points, nor in allowing <mask> to remain in contact with those same battalion commanders. He was to leave the brigade immediately and fly to Darwin—a personal address to the brigade would not be possible, nor could he meet and brief his replacement. Murdoch says that the news spread rapidly, and as Staff Captain he was inundated with resignation papers from officers wishing to show solidarity with <mask>. <mask> instructed Murdoch to reject all resignations.Rowell was replaced by Lieutenant General Edmund Herring, a man close to Blamey. Now Herring chose Brigadier Ivan Dougherty to replace <mask>. During his recent period of command in the Northern Territory, Herring had relieved both his brigadiers, replacing them with younger and better educated officers, one of whom was Dougherty, an officer in whom he had great confidence. Herring believed that his decision to replace <mask> with Dougherty, who would command the 21st Brigade for the rest of the war, was the right one. Years later he told official historian Dudley McCarthy that: "We knew the terrain was most difficult and the Japs very good jungle fighters ...  we had a war to win and it was our job to call in the best man we could. It would have been wrong for us to allow ourselves to be influenced by <mask>' feelings." <mask>' removal could charitably be attributed to Blamey's inadequate understanding of the circumstances Potts had dealt with on the Kokoda Trail.He may have genuinely believed that another commander in the same circumstances would have pushed back the Japanese and re-taken Kokoda. This is the tack taken by Dudley McCarthy in the official war history; "Blamey and Herring, who did not at that time understand so well the circumstances in which <mask> found himself and the way he had acquitted himself, genuinely misjudged him". Other historians feel that <mask> was a scapegoat, removed by Blamey to avoid a showdown with MacArthur. MacArthur maintained in a letter to the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George Marshall, on 6 September that "the Australians have proven themselves unable to match the enemy in jungle fighting. Aggressive leadership is lacking". Peter Brune alleges that Blamey's removal of Potts was simple self-preservation. "It is staggering to contemplate that an Australian brigade commander could be thrust into a campaign with such a damning inadequacy of military intelligence, support and equipment and yet fight a near flawless fighting withdrawal where the military and political stakes were so terribly important and that could then be relieved from his command as a reward."General Robert Eichelberger wrote to Herring in 1959, after McCarthy's history appeared:

The "running rabbits" incident
On 9 November Blamey addressed the men of the 21st Brigade on the parade ground at Koitaki. The men of Maroubra Force expected congratulations for their efforts in holding back the Japanese. However, instead of praising them, Blamey told the brigade that they had been "beaten" by inferior forces, and that "no soldier should be afraid to die". Captain H.D. "Blue" Steward, medical officer of the 2/16th recalled "The troops could have withstood the Japanese field gun more easily than what they received. Blamey got them on edge almost at once by saying that they had been beaten by inferior troops in inferior numbers. Then he made his famous remark that 'the rabbit that ran away is the rabbit that got shot'.The whole parade was almost molten with rage and indignation." Blamey's personal assistant Lieutenant Colonel Norman Carlyon, realised that damage had been done. "Standing beside the small platform from which Blamey was to address the troops, I realised that he was in a most aggressive mood. He was soon expressing this in harsh words ... It amazed me that Blamey should deal so insensitively with the men of such a well-proven brigade." After the rank and file had left, Blamey addressed the officers. He questioned whether they were worthy of their men, and told them they must improve.<mask> was initially dismissive about Blamey's address, when informed about it by Major Albert Caro. He passed on the news in a letter to Dawn; "... apparently most of the troops take the speech as a colossal joke against the speaker..." He did however write to Allen asking him to "take the necessary action" regarding Blamey's remarks. By the New Year he had been given further details and was enraged. Again writing to his wife; "Hugh sent me a precis of his (T's) speech to the old team and to the officers. Hells Bells, it was a cowardly bit of work and untrue in every detail. I'll fry his soul in the next world for that bit of 'passing the buck'. Surely a man in his position is big enough to carry his own mistakes."<mask> was not the victim of the Koitaki speech. He had already been removed, and appears to have been already marked for minor roles only in the rest of the war. Although <mask> was incensed, the real damage done at Koitaki was to the careers of the next generation of young officers. <mask> was aware as the war proceeded that men he had trained, cajoled, blasted, encouraged and fought alongside were damned for their association with him. Some have alleged that 21st Brigade's next combat role in the battle for Gona saw excessive casualties, due to the burning desire to erase Blamey's slur. "By the time the battle for Gona had concluded, the Blamey slur at Koitaki had manifested itself in the interference in the command structure, and the resultant slaughter of soldiers." In Darwin with 23rd Brigade
<mask> replaced Dougherty as commander of the 23rd Brigade in Darwin.It had originally been an AIF brigade, composed of volunteers who were able to serve abroad. As the Japanese advanced through 1941 and 1942, its original battalions had been sent to Ambon, Rabaul and Timor. They were replaced with battalions from the Militia, men who had been conscripted, and could only serve on Australian soil unless they volunteered for the AIF. Friction was inevitable, and the new officers were not all talented man-managers. With his new brigade, <mask> had a new set of battalion commanders, who he proceeded to push to meet his high standards. His methods did not always meet with approval from his superiors. Meanwhile, he was distressed to hear news

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 of his former charges in 21st Brigade.Under Dougherty at Gona they had been thrown against an entrenched Japanese force, which had been massively underestimated in strength. Many good men who had fought alongside <mask> in the Middle East and Kokoda died at Gona. He wrote to Dawn "...it's a hundred times worse taking that sort of punch [hearing of the casualties] while I am sitting safe". Amid the carnage, Lieutenant Colonel Albert Caro, Major Ben Hearman and Lieutenant Colonel Cooper all protested to Dougherty that his tactics were at fault. They all were punished with transfers to backwaters. Cooper (shot in the hip at Gona) has recalled; "...they used to say there were two types of officers: those who were always going to reach the top, and then the others that are always at fault. But then there is the other type like <mask>, who just get on with the job and do it superbly.They are efficient and successful and save men's lives while they go about it. But <mask> wasn't at Gona. <mask> dealt with his difficulties by devoting himself to training his brigade. It was said that by the time they were committed to action, his 7th and 8th Battalions were better trained than any AIF battalion before them. In April 1943 Blamey inspected and was very impressed with the quality of the brigade. By this stage the Northern Territory Force GOC was "Tubby" Allen, also marking time in a relative backwater. Allen steered <mask> away from controversy during Blamey's visit.By March 1944, 23rd Brigade was still training, now in Queensland. <mask> kept the pressure on his men, and it was not always welcome. Many of them had not been under fire, and could not relate the punishing fitness regime and battalion manoeuvres to actual combat, as he could. Allen had moved on and <mask>' GOC was now Major General Stanley Savige. Savige hauled him over the coals for being too tough on his battalion commanders. <mask> had long-term fears for the future, if the pressure on Japan was eased. He confided to Dawn; "I'm scared stiff we'll all go soft because of further casualties and not hammer the Jap flat.We lose them in this war and the next will be the kids". In April at last the Brigade was posted overseas, initially to Lae in New Guinea Territory, then to the Wau area. The Brigade, now part of II Corps, continued training. <mask> was much happier with his battalion commanding officers, but was able to write to Dawn; "I put over a pretty brutal talk to COs ... on matters of jealousies, viewpoints and lack of teamwork. Trod on corns all round and am not popular but that will pass." Bougainville Campaign

Finally II Corps was transferred to the Solomon Islands. The 23rd Brigade set up HQ in the Green Islands, north of Bougainville on 27 September 1944.Green Islands
The battalions were spread out guarding airfields and naval installations on various neighbouring islands. <mask> agitated for a more focused and aggressive role. He was aware that among his troops were men who had volunteered for overseas service four years previously. He also feared that a passive garrison role in the tropics would sap the fitness and discipline he had painstakingly instilled. <mask> did his homework, and proposed to Savige a four-point plan of action for the Brigade:
 General reconnaissance against nearby enemy territory, followed by attacks to root out enemy remnants:
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Savige rejected the plans. His justification in the official war history provides a fair and reasonable portrait of Potts, as seen from above in the chain of command: "<mask> was a very gallant man and looked for fights, but looking without planning the ways and means to land and support troops on hostile shores was another thing. Further, <mask> always found it difficult to envisage or accommodate himself to the overall plan of his commander ... <mask> was a character apart from the rest.His personal courage was unsurpassed and his genial nature drew one to him. However, his zeal to be on patrol or with the leading section denied him control of operations which led him to countenance fear of some disaster overtaking his troops". Savige eventually realised the northern islands were so quiet, that the 23rd would be better deployed at Torokina in central Bougainville. This required MacArthur's approval, which took three months. The brigade passed the time enjoying the facilities that the American garrison troops had left behind, when they were transferred to more glamorous work re-conquering the Philippines. <mask> went home on leave to Western Australia for nearly two months, rejoining the brigade at the end of January 1945. Shortly after he received a curt signal from II Corps HQ, asking why he had not nominated anyone for medals recently.Central Bougainville
On 10 April Savige gave <mask> control of the central Bougainville sector. He immediately sent out patrols to sniff out Japanese. This put him at odds with Major George Winning, a former commando who had surveyed the whole island when Australian troops first arrived. Winning called Bougainville "a self-supporting POW camp". "To fight a war here and provoke hostilities will be nothing more than sinful destruction and wastage of bloody fine men who deserve to be laid off and sent home to their people". In <mask>' view, taking a brigade trained to the peak of fitness and primed to attack and then giving them a garrison job, was actually more hazardous than sending them into battle. He had already lost one battalion commander in Bougainville, not in combat but in a plane crash while on a reconnaissance flight.Potts established that there was a force of 40–50 enemy in the Berry's Hill area, and had reason to believe they were being reinforced. With artillery support and air support from the Royal New Zealand Air Force, the Australians killed and captured a number of the Japanese and pushed their front line forward. Soon resistance stiffened, and it was clear that the hill was held by a significant force. As II Corps had introduced a "no casualties" policy, the Australians withdrew, with one slightly wounded. Patrolling and harassing without any serious engagements continued until June, when 23rd Brigade was sent north. Northern Bougainville
Potts' new assignment was to contain Japanese troops in the narrow Bonis Peninsula and push them north towards the Buka Passage at the end. There was now believed to be 1,200 Japanese on the peninsula and 1,400 on Buka Island across the passage.By 28 June <mask> had his 27th and 8th Battalions positioned at the base of the peninsula, on the east and west sides respectively. The Australian lines of communication were quite stretched, and the Japanese infiltrated constantly. In July an Australian wood-chopping party was attacked and two field ambulance men were killed. The next day a jeep was wrecked by a mine. 8th Battalion lost Captain Ogden to another mine and Lieutenant Webb, killed while leading an ambush patrol. Following the failure of the landing at Porton Plantation the planned Australian advance into the Bonis Peninsula was called off. II Corps' focus now moved to the south, leaving <mask> and 23rd Brigade to perform a holding role along the Ratsua front.While carrying this out, with Savige forbidding any forward motion, the brigade lost 7 killed and 17 wounded in patrols and ambushes, three killed and two wounded by friendly mortar fire, 12 wounded by their own booby traps and five in other accidents. During this phase Private Frank Partridge won his Victoria Cross for clearing a number of enemy bunkers despite being seriously wounded. The Japanese were running low on ammunition and food. They rarely fired unless they had a good target. <mask> recorded in his report that enemy morale was good, however "Food captured in the field kitchens consisted mainly of bamboo shoots, roots and vegetable matter generally. Evidence of cannibalism occurred on two occasions, flesh being cut from the calf and thigh of dead Japanese". As Bougainville was now a very low priority theatre, the Australians also suffered from supply problems.Inadequate shipping, artillery, ammunition and medical supplies hampered <mask>' efforts. The 27 Battalion diary recorded on 1 July; "We've been promised tanks but they have yet to be sighted ... the water situation is also difficult. The L of C [line of command] ... is over 3000 yards long, 2500 yards of which cannot be covered, and consequently enables the Jap to ambush it just when he likes". However at least they were neither starving nor abandoned totally by their hierarchy, like the Japanese. Despite these difficulties, <mask> continued to conjure up attacking schemes. On 10 July he badgered Savige about an offensive in the Porton area of the Bonis Peninsula. Savige rejected this as completely contrary to their standing orders, and concluded from questioning him that <mask> had actually not read them.In his opinion;
"I think this is sufficient to understand <mask> and the spirit within his Brigade. Had he lived to fight at Waterloo in a square, when the sole requirement was dogged bravery, he would have been a most successful commander. In modern warfare he was a lone wolf whose chief interest was to lead a patrol or wander along a track in his jeep or on foot." He linked this tendency to the Kokoda campaign. "<mask> feels he must redeem his name after the events of the Kokoda Trail..." For his part, <mask> had had enough of the static yet vulnerable role on the Ratsua front, and asked Savige to withdraw his Brigade to a smaller front around Buoi. Following this a number of small scale actions continued along the front until offensive action was discontinued on 11 August, after the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan on 6 August and 9 August. End game in Bougainville
Emperor Hirohito formally announced the end of hostilities in Tokyo on 15 August, but his loyal troops in the Solomons did not hear the news for some time.II Corps HQ at Torokina advised Australian commanders that it may take 8 days for the information to reach Japanese troops in Bougainville. <mask> flew to Torokina for a briefing on the surrender. He was dismayed to realise that front-line troops would play no part in the surrender—"a poor reward to the troops for months of fighting". The Japanese commander, General Masatane Kanda, was kept waiting by his superiors in Rabaul for permission to surrender. Finally on 7 September, he and Vice-Admiral Tomoshige Samejima arrived at Torokina and formally surrendered to Savige. <mask> returned to 23rd Brigade at Soraken, where he learned he would be taking charge of all of Bougainville and neighbouring islands. Now it truly was a prisoner of war camp as suggested by Major Winning.There were 18,000 Japanese in the Fauro Island area, and camps at Torokina eventually held 8,000. Massive quantities of Japanese arms and ammunition were destroyed or dumped in the sea. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Court, on Savige's staff, arranged a parade of senior Japanese officers for <mask>. He warned them, "This is one man on our side we haven't been able to convince the war is over". <mask>, in full regalia, inspected the seventeen generals and fifteen admirals, all standing rigidly at attention despite tattered uniforms. Court had told him that the Japanese would be expecting fireworks. But at the end of his inspection, having returned to the front and faced his defeated enemy, <mask> exclaimed "Good show!"and went along the line shaking hands. Later he said "Many dreadful things had been done during the course of the war – by both sides. There should not be recriminations after the event. Once it was over it was over". <mask> handed over command of the 23rd Brigade to Brigadier Noel Simpson on 4 December 1945. His farewell order to troops said; "The standard of efficiency as a Brigade and the fighting spirit of the troops will remain always as a vivid memory". The next day he flew home to Australia.For his service on Bougainville <mask> was Mentioned in Despatches twice. Later life
Following the war, <mask> returned to farming in Western Australia and briefly attempted to pursue a career in politics, standing unsuccessfully in 1949 as a Country Party candidate for the federal seat of Forrest in the House of Representatives. However, his preferences allowed Liberal challenger Gordon Freeth to defeat Labor minister Nelson Lemmon. Lemmon was well ahead on the first count, but <mask>' preferences flowed overwhelmingly to Freeth on the third count, allowing Freeth to win from third place. In 1960 <mask> was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Years Honours List. After suffering a number of strokes which left him wheelchair bound, he died on 1 January 1968 at Kojonup, aged 71. Notes

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<mask> (born April, 1955) was elected Senator for the Zamfara North Senatorial District of Zamfara State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the All People's Party (APP) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999. He was re-elected on the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) platform in 2003 to a second term of four years. Background

Born in April 1955, <mask> obtained a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Marketing from Kaduna Polytechnic. He became managing director of the Trans Atlantic Shipping Agency, Apapa, Lagos. Senate career

After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999, <mask> was appointed to committees on Security & Intelligence, Transport, State & Local Government and Drug & Narcotics (chairman). In August 2002, he was appointed to a three-man panel to investigate allegations that some Senators were under instructions from the presidency to offer bribes to other Senators so they would abstain from voting to override President Olusegun Obasanjo's veto of the Electoral Bill 2002.After reelection in 2003, Shuaibiu was appointed chairman of the committee on Drugs & Financial Crimes for the second time and a member of committees on Marine Transport, Sports & Social Developments and National Population. Shuaibiu's committee on Drugs and Financial Crimes overhauled the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) law to bring it into conformity with International standards. He was appointed Senate Minority Leader, and although a friend of senate president Ken Nnamani of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) he was a strong defender of ANPP interests. In March 2004, Shuaibiu moved to set up an ad hoc committee to trace money received for the sale of government-owned companies, which the committee on appropriations and finance could not locate in any government account. He was a delegate from Nigeria to the United Nations Conference for the 13th session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna, Austria. He was also on the Nigerian delegation to the 11th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice which took place April 2005 in Bangkok, Thailand. Later in the year, <mask> was a member of the Nigerian delegation led by Senate President Ken Nnamani, that attended the United Nations Parliamentary Conference at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 10 September 2005.Shuaibiu was a leading member of the "2007 Movement" which successfully fought the proposal to amend the constitution so President Olusegun Obasanjo could run for a third term. In February 2007, he was appointed chairman of a Senate Ad Hoc Committee investigating the list of politicians indicted by the EFCC to determine if President Obasanjo had doctored the EFCC advisory list, directing which politicians should be targeted. In March 2007, he said the list had been doctored but that Obasanjo had the authority to do so, although this was morally wrong. Party politics

In November 2005, the Zamfara ANPP suspended Shuaibiu citing anti-party activities and gross violation of the ANPP constitution. In February 2006, the ANPP National Executive Committee ratified this decision. Shuaibiu was governorship candidate of the breakaway Democratic People's Party in Zamfara State in the 2007 elections. Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi of the ANPP won with 415,455 votes and Yahaya Abdulkarim of the PDP won 122,351, while <mask> came third with 73,652 votes.In February 2009, President Umaru Yar'Adua appointed him a member of the National Universities Commission. President Goodluck Jonathan appointed Senator Lawal <mask> as a member of a Task Force to accelerate the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill in the National Assembly but he declined the offer. He explained he was busy with Party work at the time and he did not believe in the integrity of Government in the proposed assignment. In January 2010, as a member of the opposition coalition the National Democratic Movement (NDM), he was part of a delegation that visited Senate President David Mark to propose forming a 15-man team to visit the ailing President Yar'Adua in Saudi Arabia. He was one of the leaders of the NDM involved in the debate over whether it should form a new "mega party" to present a consolidated opposition to the PDP. After the failed amalgamation of the different political groups in the National Democratic Movement (NDM), <mask> registered as a member of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), on 12 October 2010. At the National Convention of the Party in Benin City on 21 December 2010, <mask> contested and became the National Secretary of the ACN.On 30 January 2013, <mask> was appointed a member of the Merger Committee in which ACN along with other Parties like ANPP and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) agreed to merge their Parties to become one mega Party; and he was subsequently appointed by the National Executive Committee of ACN as the Chairman of the ACN Special Convention Committee at which event on 18 April 2013 in Lagos, the Action Congress of Nigeria formally resolved to merge with the major opposition parties in Nigeria for the purpose of confronting the ruling Party in Nigeria and take power in 2015 General Elections. He delivered a welcome address in which he gave a background of the event. on 13 June 2014 <mask> was elected the APC Deputy National Chairman, North at the first National Convention of the Party. Senator <mask> as the APC Party Leader in the North, convened a meeting of all Stakeholders from Northern Nigeria in Kaduna on 18 October 2014, with former Head of State General Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the Northern Governors and Senators in attendance. He warned them to unite if they are serious on their aspirations to win the 2015 Presidential elections. References

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<mask> (born January 1, 1947) served as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs from 2008-2009. He was, from 2009 to 2013, the founding executive director of the George W. Bush Institute, a public policy development institution focused on creating independent, nonpartisan solutions to America's most pressing public policy problems through the principles that guided President George W. Bush and his wife Laura in public life. The George W. Bush Institute is based within the George W. Bush Presidential Center on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas. <mask> has also worked as a journalist, magazine publisher, and business writer, and in the field of economic policy development. He is perhaps best known for co-writing the book Dow 36,000 (published 1999), in which he predicted that the Dow Jones Industrial Average would approximately triple in value to 36,000 points by early 2005. On November 1, 2021, the Dow first crossed 36,000, more than twenty years after his book was published. Presently, he is chairman of Glassman Enterprises, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based public affairs consulting firm whose clients include several Fortune 100 companies in fields including health care and energy.In 2003, the Washington Monthly credited <mask> with inventing "journo-lobbying" by writing a large number of seemingly independent opinion columns that aligned closely with the interests of his lobbying clients; his output included columns that questioned the science behind climate change. Personal life and education
<mask> was born into a Jewish family in Washington, D.C. to parents Stanley and <mask>. He attended Sidwell Friends School, in Washington. He graduated cum laude from Harvard College with a B.A. in government in 1969. He is married to Beth Ourisman <mask> and has two children, two stepchildren, three grandchildren and two step-grandchildren. His daughter, <mask>, is a White House reporter for CNN.He lives in Washington, D.C.

Career
<mask> began his career as a journalist and publisher. While a student at Harvard, he served as managing editor of The Harvard Crimson. After graduation, he took a job as a Sunday writer for the Boston Herald Traveler. In 1971 he became editor and publisher of The Advocate of Provincetown, Mass. In 1972 <mask> began a weekly newspaper in New Orleans, called Figaro. He sold the paper in 1979 and moved back to Washington as executive editor of The Washingtonian magazine. In 1981 he served as publisher of The New Republic before becoming president of The Atlantic Monthly.He simultaneously served as executive vice president of U.S. News & World Report between 1984 and 1986. From 1987 until 1993, <mask> was part owner and editor of Roll Call. He and his partner, Arthur Levitt Jr., sold the company to The Economist. In 2000 he founded Tech Central Station (now TCS Daily), an online magazine. Between 1993 and 2004, he wrote a syndicated column for the Washington Post business section and the International Herald Tribune. <mask> has also worked in television. He was moderator of CNN's "Capital Gang Sunday" from 1995 to 1998.During this time he also hosted PBS's weekly "TechnoPolitics". From February 2010 to June 2012, he hosted "Ideas in Action", a weekly PBS series on public policy issues. From 1996 to 2008, <mask> was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. While there, from 2005 to 2007, he founded and served as editor in chief of The American, the American Enterprise Institute's bimonthly magazine of business and economics. In 2003 <mask> served on the U.S. government's Advisory Board on Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim World. From June 2007 to June 2008, he was chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), directing all nonmilitary, taxpayer–funded U.S. international broadcasting, including Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks (Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa). On December 11, 2007, <mask> was nominated by President George W. Bush to replace <mask> as the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs.[2] He served in the position from June 2008 to January 2009, leading the governmentwide international strategic communications effort. Among his accomplishments at the State Department was bringing new Internet technology to bear on outreach to foreign publics, an approach he christened "Public Diplomacy 2.0". In an interview in 2009, he put forward a case that in the long run the Iraq War will prove to have been a positive decision, saying that it will be ultimately "beneficial to the war of ideas in the sense that a functioning democracy that we hope will be stable and prosperous now exists in the Middle East, and is showing other nations and other people what a democracy looks like." Newsweek said about him: "<mask><mask>, as they say in Washington, gets it. The under secretary of state for public diplomacy has been on the job for only six months, but he has already scored small successes in the U.S. effort to win over 'hearts and minds' in the Muslim world, a hard sell if ever there was one... Glassman has finally figured out how to sell the American idea abroad." He continued to serve as a governor of the BBG, representing the secretary of state, during his time as under secretary. On September 3, 2009, <mask> was named founding executive director of the George W. Bush Institute, a public policy institute dedicated to research and action in education, global health, human freedom, and economic growth.The Institute is part of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, which also includes a presidential library and museum on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. For the 2009–10 school year, he was diplomat-in-residence at the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. He taught a course on public diplomacy to undergraduates. He was formerly a member of the Policy Advisory Board of Intel Corporation and was senior adviser to AT&T Corporation and SAP America, Inc. In 2013, <mask> became president of the public affairs firm Public Affairs Engagement, based in Roslyn, Virginia. In 2016, he left Public Affairs Engagement and started his own firm, Glassman Enterprises, LLC, based in Washington, D.C., with an array of clients that include pharmaceutical firms, manufacturers and non-profits. He is (2020) chairman of the non-profit Strategic Health Diplomacy, which educates Americans on the importance of global health programs, and a board member of Making Every Vote Count, a non-partisan organization which is dedicated to the election of the president by popular vote.He is a frequent commentator on business and investing issues. His work has been published in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Atlantic Monthly, Reader's Digest, and The Times Literary Supplement (London). Additionally, <mask> served as one of 21 members of the Investor Advisory Committee of the Securities and Exchange Commission, established in April 2012 as part of the Dodd–Frank law, through 2018, and the advisory board of America Abroad Media. Books

His first book, Dow 36,000, was published in 1999, near the peak of the late-1990s stock market bubble. The book was later criticized by Washington Post reporter Carlos Lozada, who asked, "You don't feel the need to apologize to someone who read your book, went in and got creamed?" Glassman replied, "Absolutely not". Nobel laureate <mask> argued on his faculty website that the book contained basic arithmetic errors and was "very silly".Economist and blogger Nate Silver described the book as "charlatanic" and suggested on empirical grounds that the authors had failed to notice that at the time of writing stock prices were "as overvalued as at literally any time in American history". In their book, Glassman and Hassett claim that John C. Bogle, then senior chairman of The Vanguard Group, said  "While there will be bumps--maybe big ones--along the way and the road may be surprisingly long, Dow 36,000 offers superb advice. With an eminently readable style, the authors present sound and simple wisdom about investment principles, mutual fund selection, index funds, and asset allocation. I am impressed!" And from David Malpass, now president of the World Bank: "Glassman and Hassett's ideas are timely and thought-provoking. Either we are in a bubble with inefficient financial markets, or else past theories on stock prices and price-earnings multiples have to be revised. In every one of my meetings with mutual funds these days, I have to address the issue of whether stocks are overvalued.<mask> and Hassett's theories make the solid case that, on average, they are not." In 2011, in his third book, Safety Net: The Strategy for De-Risking Your Investments in a Time of Turbulence, he wrote "I was wrong" about his predictions in Dow 36,000, noting that the Dow Jones went up only 20 percent since publication of the book and returns during the intervening years were only "a few piddling percentage points." In Safety Net, he argued that "the world has changed" over the past decade; that the U.S. relative economic position had declined and that the risk of catastrophic events had increased. He warned investors to adopt a new definition of risk, moving beyond the notion of financial volatility. In 2012, he wrote the introduction of The 4% Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs, published by the George W. Bush Presidential Center. In March 2013, he reverted to his former position, stating in an article for Bloomberg L.P. that while he had underestimated the level of volatility in world events, he believed that reaching 'Dow 36,000' was still possible within less than a decade with the right policies. Gawker Media, in an article on his predictions, described him as having written "the most hilariously wrong investment book of all time".His second book, The Secret Code of the Superior Investor: How to Be a Long-Term Winner in a Short-Term World, was published by Three Rivers Press in December 2002. The book focused on the construction of a solid personal portfolio. It offered advice for finding the best individual stocks and mutual funds even in uncertain times and volatile markets. At the heart of Glassman's "secret code" is the belief that stocks are the best long-term bet there is. The trick is finding solid companies to invest in and then sticking with those companies through thick and thin. Glassman wrote a weekly and twice-weekly investment column for The Washington Post from 1993 to 2004 and since then has written a monthly column for Kiplinger's Personal Finance. References

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