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oe DM A veo An Auten, al arm ere A le The search for Genovese led to Italy, vhere he had served as an | SO COM ON Fig to! 10 unterpreter for the Allied Military Goverament during World War IL. Later,” ife had been arrested by United States military police for black-market oper" ihe igtion and confined to a military jail in Italy, He was extradited and turned = 1967 to the New York , police to answer the murder charge. Genovese | s - i : Corroboration of Rupolo's story of murder depended upon “tree ' : wt lesion of two witnesses, One of the witnesses, Peter La Tempa, who was seeing held in a Brooklyn jail, was found dead in his cell in January, 1945. A” He 28 aoe 2Yoxteological examination showed the cause of death was an overdose ot rad Dl +e, nm a al “ar “4. ee “leaping teblets. Rupolo expressed his belief that La Tempa had been murdered ay Genovese or one of his hirelive, fr 47 36 The other witnees was Jeremiah Esposito. His bullet-riddied 3 ad was thrown from a speeding automobile in Norwood, New Jersey. The a ar a deaths ‘of Esposito ant La Tempa resulted in the dismissal of the indictments 12 att Genovese, Miranda, and the others, (64-31396-34, pp. 10, 17, 18) > 4S In 1940, a notorious criminal group was uncovered tn New York La toe £o Hondo BD i iCity through the admissions of several young gangsters who had boon indicted = Stor stealing automohiles later used in the commission of murder, These