BOXING & THE MAFIA

go here gentle 15-round world in the weight cabin it was a fight it was to end one of the most famous rivalries in boxing a fight so brutal and bloody that it would become known as the synth Allan tines Day Massacre from Robinson's Mastro's the left with the white cross Jake LaMotta the Raging Bull tough relentless and seemingly impervious to pain the short shot by Robinson would Rock a truck but they don't seem to move LaMotta Sugar Ray Robinson renowned for his dancing style sleek fast and deadly for many the best boxer of all time why these are all a Bray Robinson Thunder punter like so many fighters these two boxers had come from hardship and poverty boxing had offered them the chance of a better life but to get here they'd had to face the dark forces that controlled the fight game the mob but while Sugar Ray Robinson would rely on his pure skill Jake LaMotta had to enter a shadowy underworld to carve a path to success I just went by the head do what I thought was the best thing for me to do and after how to do it all over again I would do the same thing boxing is the ultimate test of individual courage but this has always left it open to exploitation boxing is two people in a ring that's it so one person taking a dive is a much easier thing to control than an entire baseball team in such a corrupt world losing a fight can be more profitable than winning well there was a kickback a purse whether it was a connection payoff whether it was a fight fix whatever it was the mob was there this is the story of how throughout the history of boxing the sports biggest fight has been against the world of organized crime growing up in the slums of 1930s America was a tough business for the young Jake LaMotta surviving in New York's Bronx meant literally fighting on the streets I was probably the original juvenile anklet I was all your talk with law Oh III should have went through the fall school buddy very year before I did but once in reform school it was boxing that saved him Oh I practically was born into it it came so natural would be I was always fighting our streets and when I went to reform school my occupation area for school was take care of a gym and I went into jail it was the big bag of a small bag and I made it my bike I wanted to cover Friday when I grew it when I can hold it LaMotta became a professional boxer at the age of 19 his aggressive style echoed his childhood street fighting nor was tougher than Jake LaMotta no astrology Lamanna and he he had a tech neither bottom Lizzy he would barrage and he would aggressively charge you without getting hit any fond anybody the Motta's greatest opponent would be Sugar Ray Robinson born in the same year as LaMotta he grew up in the ghettos of Detroit well he grew up in a neighborhood called Black Bottom and as he said black because that's what we were in bottom because that's where we were at rather than being drawn into petty crime Robinson would earn money by dancing on the streets he also developed a passion for boxing some kids play baseball some play football he grew up in a gym boxing gym atmosphere so that's what he'd like to do when he would do it and and he was very good at it he found out it's at that time he was just a skinny little kid but he developed especially after he came to New York into a wonderful amateur fighter for both Robinson and LaMotta boxing offered an escape from the poverty trap but it also meant dealing with members of the Mafia who turned to organized crime as their way out of the same tough neighborhoods there was a very direct dealing between mob guy and fighter in those days the mob guys held a special place they no longer hold and so a certain amount of reverence build up around now you take a fighter who really particularly in those days I mean you're not going to see too many Harvard and Yale fellows entering that business it's very hard to get hit all the time these were kids tough kids who needed the money who who saw it as a way out of the particular ghetto that they were involved in and the mob was a natural for them Presi appreciated those guys wearing the thousand-dollar suits those guys came from their beginnings they are they were they were a little overwhelmed by back at the center of this world was Frank Cabo a feared member of the Mafia and the notorious killer he ran the illegal gambling rackets associated with boxing the Frankie Carbone was just the thug you know he was just a tough guy who made boxing his realm just like other mobsters made the docks their realm or liquor and cigarette imports or narcotics or prostitution their realm Frankie Carbone was that was the mobster that basically ran boxing the 40s into the 50s although Frank Cabo didn't officially manage any boxes he had such an influence over their handlers that he was the one person who could decide who was going to fight in New York's premier arena there was one venue and it was called Madison Square Garden and Karbo did business there but nobody got close to him mr. gray and his gray fedora very very nicely tailored suits and you couldn't fight Madison Square Garden if you didn't do some sort of business it was against this background of corruption that Jake LaMotta and Sugar Ray Robinson were proving themselves as boxers Robinson's dancing feet had earned him a reputation as an exciting and stylish fighter while the Motta's bullish determination and resilience were helping to make his name I was always better about being a crunch and for five years nobody wanted to fight me because I don't have no mafia Vianney LaMotta skill in the ring didn't go unnoticed the mob knew they could make big money out of his fights and were keen to promote him on their terms through his brother Joey they tried to convince Jake that he should cooperate I tried to avoid that all my life I avoided that my brother was what I was involved with it and he already did it for me brings back best Jesus to me because they do I don't want to bother with them carbo wanted LaMotta to throw a fight against one of his boxers billy fox and in return he promised him a shot at the title this tough decision for La Motta became the central theme of one of the most famous boxing films ever Raging Bull for me understand you tell him I don't care color is how great he is he could beat all the Sugar Ray Robinson's and Tony De Niro's in the world are you gonna get shot at that title not without her singing you're a smart kid we go when the Motta's brother delivered the message from Cabo Jake knew it was an opportunity he couldn't refuse but it drew him into the heart of the world he tried to avoid for so long I want to give up authority to fight for the championship of the world I deserved it I was on cloud chain for five years I deserved that shot nobody wanted to give it to me so I just went ahead do what I thought was the best thing for me to do and after how to do all over again I would do the same thing the deal that LaMotta said he'd never make was secretly struck LaMotta conceded the fight in the fourth round but his performance was less than convincing LaMotta did not pretend at all to be serious about this this this fight and made it clear to everyone that he was indeed throwing the fight which of course opened up you know the fight to all kinds of investigation LaMotta had his license to fight in New York suspended meanwhile the man who had corrupted LaMotta was going from strength to strength carbo increased his control over boxing through developing a friendship with the new owner of Madison Square Garden James Norris Norris was a multi-millionaire keen to develop his interests in boxing he bought up the venues and secured deals for television coverage she had a television contract and the facility to put it in for his Friday Night Fights but you didn't have the fighters and so he turned to Frankie Carville mr. gray and they mobbed up almost every big provider it was a very mutually beneficial relationship Norris tries to maintain that he was just a businessman but he wasn't he had undercover pieces of fighters he was a social blueblood he had came from all sorts of money was fabulously wealthy but he was a thief he was no good he was a criminal in 1949 Norris set up the International Boxing Club which would effectively run the sport throughout the 50s the IBC the International Boxing Club was called The Octopus because it controlled everything you couldn't fight coupled with coupled with their hold on all the major arenas their TV contracts and Frank carbo threatening to break anybody's legs that was it they controlled everything two years after throwing a fight for carbo LaMotta was finally given the chance to fight for the world middleweight championship against Marcel Cerdan in round 9 La Motta always a great puncher stays close trying to minimize her dams right Lamanna in dark trunks with the white waistband senses victory but the gallon Frenchman won't give up trying to get one punch home that will end it all mother who can give it as well as take it steps up the face and although he respects her down he wants that title Dean comes dramatically in the tenth round when sir Dan came out answer the bell his left arm injured will fall the first round true sir Dan's undoing and Jake LaMotta he's the new middleweight champion when I finally won the title from my cell sedan Wow celebration of the Bronx of the cop for even having the great great feeling LaMotta had reached his ultimate goal but eager to take his title away was his old rival Sugar Ray Robinson Robinson had been hugely successful on his tour in Europe building a fearsome reputation on his own tongues Robinson was outside of the mob and he was so good they had to do business with him he didn't have to do business with them a la Joe Lewis they never did business with him because he was too big you know if a man's big and he made it on his own before the mob came in he was usually sacrosanct he was over here he was protected Robinson is that good he was already welterweight world champion but now he wanted the middleweight belt in 1951 Robinson got his chance to challenge LaMotta for the title the scene was set in Chicago Stadium for a fight that would go down nice tree in the right trunks Sugar Ray Robinson in the black trunks Jake LaMotta Lamanna and Robinson had fought five times LaMotta at that point had been the only man in 143 fights to beat Robins Lamanna had never been knocked down LaMotta was a rock Robbie's a good punch he he did he like to be like a will of the wisp he's here he's there he's moving to this side he's moving to that side it pulls back stitches to that pulls it back and then suddenly he throws a combination and it's bing-bang-boom like that so fast you barely see it it's like machine-gun fire I thought that Lamanna may have won the first round robin doing great I thought my mom might have won before coach Billy quote right here hey good sue Allie would stop running stay still I stopped trying punches me like this and it was war the war in the war the barrage of punches that numata through in the 11th round took its toll but not so much on Robinson as only Mata himself who began to tire look at making that face in the way that left arm is hanging it's just lavalla wants to hold on LaMotta strength started to Evan whether it was his training regimen of having to get his weight down whether was the punches that Robinson was landing because his leverage was unbelievable from a man on in he just used LaMotta as a punching bag became a human punching Lamott his best punch was a left jaw to the right glove he was just taking punch after punch after punch and the 13th round was one of the most one-sided using a Muhammad Ali phrase ass weapons you have ever seen go to the back and left elbow because of holding the fight had been so hard fought brutal and bloody became known as the synth Ballantine's Day Massacre and yet Mamata didn't go down which was his pride then and is still his pride tomorrow I would go down great timing stop buying me out my people Rob's at the Hudson County up against the ropes if the rusty have up another 30 seconds Robinson would have collapsed some hit me and I believe that he took pride in that he took pride of that and that's what kind of a guy is he took pride in his ability he took pride in his record he took plant in in Jake LaMotta I like to ask you one question before you go ray when did you know that you had him because you were fighting pretty evenly browned well that's the way we planned the fight you figure the mile would be strong as he was first part of the fight in the last part of fight he was weakened we figured to box along the first part of the fight and wait till he Showtime to weaken and which he did I've been in the end or played round after date he showed signs and my manager told me to start throwing open up the heavier one yeah I was champion that guy they took my time away well I could have lost to a greater chair he was great Greg chapping Sugar Ray Robinson was now middleweight champion of the world an exceptional boxer who would prove himself to be one of the greatest fighters of all time Robinson reveled in the glamour of being a champion and in the lifestyle that went with Ray Robinson really was the first fighter to have what became known as the entourage he had his manager he had several other trainers and hangers on he had his golf pro he had his his hairdresser he would have his wife and there would be a dozen 15 people and his part is part of his party and we think now of Muhammad Ali's entourage but all that started with Sugar Ray he enjoyed the role of showman so much that he retired from boxing in 1952 to try and make a career as a dancer in the ring he had been the main attraction but his onstage antics proved more of a sideshow three years after retiring and with the tax authorities pursuing him Robinson had no choice but to return to boxing it took Robinson less than a year to regain his middleweight crown but it couldn't bring him either the money or the control over his career he once had with all his prize money going to reap a tax his desperate financial situation finally brought him within the reach of the tentacles of the International Boxing Club he was forced to sign an exclusive deal giving Jim Norris control of all his fights I'm proud of you and what you did tonight certainly is I think given boxing a great lift oh yeah I'm proud of you thanks a lot Gemma I'm proud to have you proud of me tell us all what your plans are I don't know I'm asking Jim now is putting my friend Jim norris's plans for Robinson was simple defend your title and if you lose it as in this case against Jean former then prepare for a rapid rematch but by the late 50s Norris's control was under threat as the authorities tried to break up the ivc's monopoly part of this process involved an attempt to catch the notorious mr. gray Frank carbo up to now they hadn't been able to gather enough evidence to convict him he was only arrested 17 times but five of them were for murder but he killed far more people than that he got away with him because organized crime had such control over the judges and the prosecutors he would be charged in suddenly these cases would just disappear finally they found a witness boxing promoter Jackie Leonard who was prepared to help them prove that Cabo was trying to extort money from him secret recordings they made finally provided enough evidence to arrest mr. gray cabo was sentenced to two years but shortly after his imprisonment he was brought out to testify before a Senate commission set up to investigate organized crime in America they became known as the key file for hearings the Kefauver hearings were instrumental in making inroads in the mob but it's a process that took decades to succeed what it was was the first real tough inroads by the by Congress and by the government to expose what the mob was expose what stranglehold it has unboxing most of those called to give evidence including Norris and Cabo claimed the Fifth Amendment have you ever threatened any manager or boxer or promoter at any time within the last ten years for not carrying out any wishes in the boxing industry a relation I respectfully decline to answer question on the ground I cannot be compulsively a witness against myself here to recognize I respectfully decline to answer question LeBron I cannot become involved would be a witness against myself Jake LaMotta was then called to give evidence about losing his fight against billy fox city will be the truth the whole truth and nothing but so help you God yes although the public had a notion of the corrupt nature of boxing what the former middleweight champion was about to admit would be one of the most shocking revelations in the history of boxing I believe you've stated before the subcommittee that you got the okay to go into the tank as they say in boxing to Fox on the last day before the fight is that correct yes I I said I would loosen early Fox airfryer if I was down to your championship fight I lost the fight which I never wanted to do with my life out of the one of the dude but that gave baby get close to becoming a chance to fight for the title that gave me an opportunity and like I said before if I had to do it again I will probably do the same thing I think it was disastrous but he's all figure I looked up to Jake LaMotta and sold with the kids from the neighborhood look lover Jake LaMotta this is a full of priorities and mr. lamagno what is this these people engaged in this boxing business I'm not afraid of milliwatts you're not afraid of any air mostly everybody was scared of the Mafia except me because I was stupid I wasn't so smart I'm still not so smart but I feared nobody i hypnotize myself not to fear anybody and never to get hurt so I defy the world how alive today I'll never know and I told him that I was necessary to money and that I was going to interested in a championship fight Jake LaMotta admitted it I believe because Jake one is a proud man and he was proud not of the fact he threw the fight but of the fact that he was able to get a championship shot at sir Dan Marcel Cerdan and win that so that it was a contextual picture for him not I threw a fight end of paragraph I had to throw a fight to get a shot at a title and I won the title enough evidence had mounted up against Frank Cabo to finally sentence him to 25 years he would spend most of the rest of his life in jail but if the authorities thought that prison would end carbo's influence over boxing they were wrong despite being behind bars he continued to profit from the fight game his main new money earner was the most renowned heavyweight to be linked with the Mafia ex-convict Sonny Liston Sonny Liston was enormous and Sonny Liston was a good athlete and Sonny Liston learned how to fight in jail and when he finished beating everybody up in jail he was finally allowed to start beating people up in prized rings outside of jail Liston was a tremendous fighter loosely could the listener was around that they'd have a party I mean destroy everything this guy wasn't destroyed the American media demonized Liston especially when he challenged the popular and charismatic reigning heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson Floyd Patterson was a kind of civil rights negro he was endorsed by politicians including Jack Kennedy Jack Kennedy very much wanted see Floyd Patterson win where Sonny Liston was seen as America's nightmare a threatening criminal who made no apologies for that in 1962 with Liston having changed managers Patterson eventually agreed to the fight while there are many obstacles but I think they have all been removed satisfactory otherwise I wouldn't be here today although Patterson appeared to have overcome his concerns about Liston's criminal connections the public remained unconvinced to them Liston was still the bad guy 189 pounds wearing the black and white trunks from yokas New York the world heavyweight boxing captain despite the overwhelming public support for Paterson it quickly became clear that he was no match for Liston is left of the body the left hook it's all over in the first round it's a knockout patron Sonny Liston in the first round when he won the title against Floyd Patterson he did it in two minutes and six seconds he wiped him out and Floyd Patterson was a pretty deft pretty interesting athlete he wasn't a nobody and Sonny Liston ran a truck over him so in just two minutes Liston became the world heavyweight champion but if he thought this would change the public's perception of him he was wrong he was clearly never going to win the congratulations of white america or black america for that matter he was always going to be who he was which was a guy with nothing an ex-con who would never win the affection much less the respect of his audience the public is not Whitman now but they have to swung along until somebody else come along to beat Minh Liston and his mob handlers didn't have to wait long for that someone ladies and gentlemen mrs. Cassius Marcellus clay he's young he's handsome they know it he's a poet a prophet and many people believe he'll be the next heavyweight champion of the world Cassius can I ask you how you're feeling now at this point I'm feeling great I'm ready to go to war right now well when you say you're ready to go to war right I see that bow in the street I beat him before the fight is actually take him on before the body to my from his daddy I saw Sonny Liston a few days ago back in the open he he's too ugly to be the world champ the world tends to be pretty like me since play now comes to him the moment of truth a months he's taunted listen he said what he's going to do to him he's predicted eight rounds now he has to make his fists do what his mouth has predicted the heavyweight championship of the world from the right hand corner its PA's hairspray against Sonny Liston from the first Bell the crowd expected Liston to march over and knock clay out but things didn't go as anticipated Liston's initial problem was that he couldn't seem to catch clay clay going round this ring as fast as he said he would he said he was going to be a dancer and that's the way he is going to work it not since Sugar Ray Robinson had anyone seen a boxer move like this if heavyweights didn't fight like this Joe Lewis didn't fight like that no one did Cassius Clay adapted Sugar Ray Robinson's style for men nearly twice the size you know this kind of add up to power with velocity added to it he wanted Sugar Ray Robinson to be his manager that was Cassius Clay's idol and he as you can see just from the way he fought he fought as much as a heavyweight can fight like Sugar Ray I just remember this the moving feet and it white tassels on his boxing shoes and listed huffing and puffing a little bit but still I say he's going to wear him down and then I remember suddenly it was like somebody tapped me on his shoulder was so sharp he's cut and Liston is cut underneath his left thigh Hut under the left line run free Muskaan space I know clay was winning clearly winning and it was getting worse for Sonny Liston he wasn't used to going very far into fights it was clear that clay was in brilliant physical condition very fast hitting them with jabs he was basically hitting him at will and grinding Sonny Liston down it hurts to get hit by a 200-pound man over and over again for Ogden clay go to Kona looking a little bit tired but then at the end of the fourth round it was clay who seemed to have a problem and a player screwing up his eyes in pain something on the gloves that complaining has got into his eyes both eyes were burning I put my finger in his eye and I put it on my eye he burn so what I did I got the sponge I washed off the eyes wipe them with the towel threw them both away and cleaned up and he was shaking his head take the gloves off I want to prove the word little dirty work afoot and I see the referee coming towards you I says get up I got him up and he shaking his head the only instruction I gave this kid was run he sang all the time I can't see I can't see despite being temporarily blinded clay continued to fight holding Liston at bay and even taunting him he's pushing and pulling up at the left hand against the champions face and Clay's corner are complaining that something has got on those gloves and he's rubbed it into his eyes because of Liston's mob ties many at ringside believed that his corner had tried to cheat by rubbing some kind of chemical irritant onto his gloves in a deliberate attempt to blind clay two fighters we fought listing before clay Zora Folley and Eddie machen had trouble with their eyes nice coincidence as soon as clays eyes had cleared he came back at Liston with a vengeance exactly look like a sparring partner looking complete here see he doesn't know what it's all about like the rest of us he's amazed Liston who was several years older than clay and not used to going more than two or three rounds began to tire completed and the conventional is rising not for the champion here but challenger cosplay then at the start of the seventh round the fight took its most controversial turn whereas 1 : as heaven in this corner going on fishiest players one officer no heavyweight champion had quit on his stool since Jess Willard in 1919 if people were prepared to believe that the blinding incident was an accident they found the nature of listings defeat highly suspicious Liston claimed he had a shoulder injury but because of his mafia links there were rumors of a fix I believe the fight was was fixed but I don't have proof but it seemed to me to be very strange affair the only reason I can find for the way Sonny Liston lost and the fact that he lost in a way that he did would have been that organized crime was betting against him but the rumored mob involvement was pushed to the back pages when shortly after the fight the new heavyweight champion made an unprecedented announcement why are you being called Muhammad Ali now that's the name given to me by my leading teacher the Honorable Elijah Muhammad that's my original name that's a black man named Cassius Ames what slave name are no longer slave what does it mean Muhammad means worthy of all phrases and Ally means Most High the new champion had converted to the Nation of Islam a radical black religious group that preached separatist politics I said the earth belongs to the black man all of a sudden you got a guy who's a Muslim people didn't know what a Muslim was I thought it was a piece of cloth I didn't know not about a religion the who knew was all very bizarre for people to absorb and so the principal symbol of American athletic singularity and physical prowess the heavyweight champion of the world converting to this sect was extremely bizarre even threatening to many many people for many Americans this new religion was seen as even more threatening than the mob promoters struggled to find a venue for the potentially lucrative rematch and apparently just announced to the court the fight would not be held in Boston in May 1965 a venue was finally found in the town of Lewiston in Maine but fears about the Nation of Islam and rumors of mafia reprisals had created a very tense atmosphere lady from Darwin although Liston had quit in their first fight his Hardman reputation and formidable record meant that many believed he would get his revenge like that football of Donovan fine this is the big one this is for the low cycle play defending and the Sun there would be Avenger citizen bid to become the second man in history to regain the heavyweight title without feet of air feeding listen the ocean temple loves our look at those hands right down this is foolish and right down to his size and just using his feet cheeky butter sock then within the first two minutes of this highly charged fight that would be an incident that would go down as one of the most controversial in boxing history listen you know this saving his punches until he gets within range the third body was trying to front the ball just doesn't all angle when Ellie threw the punch he was right above me and I could see his butt his back was to me and I could see his his shoulder move but I technically never saw the punch land referred to as the Phantom punch it happened so quickly that the crowd immediately thought that Liston was faking the guys that complained about that were biting on a hot dog or they had to go to the ladies room or the men's room see though this just happened what happened han was a simple move listen move mister jab my guy slid the right hit him on a right hand shot in the temple and the guy never recovered everyone has their theory about the so called phantom punch but now using special techniques we can view the footage from a new angle and see clearly for the first time exactly what kind of blow flawed Liston this three-dimensional image shows a definite connection across Liston's jaw but the question remains was the punch enough to keep listand down but did he throw the fight can you remember the punchy culture when it was the right hand I suppose it must have hurt you well I wouldn't say it hurt me don't you think you could have beaten the gunman yes her field got away from over under the rules of boxing the referee should have halted the count until Ali was in a neutral corner but Jersey Joe Walcott a better boxer than he was a referee lost control of Harley and of the count seemingly confused by the whole situation he left the boxers to listen to the judgment of one of the reporters at ringside who told him Liston had had more than ten seconds on the canvas you did you see the fight well how can a man get up when he's standing over you if you get out you're gonna have to use your hand right so how am I gonna protect myself and get up - despite Liston's complaints about the incompetence of the referee many people were convinced it was a fix a gambling coup set up by the mob he hardly think attractive indifferent pocket up we tried to say it was a face Millie assented the judge was affixed this ended the referee was founded they're sending my managers of phony Angelo Dundee this in the listeners people have founded the sending the state commissioners phony and and couldn't nobody cool no fix before the world like that whether a fix or not it marked another step in the decline of the Mafia's influence over boxing it also marked the beginning of the end for Sonny Liston if America could ever forgive him before for beings as mobbed up and as recalcitrant and as sullen as he was they didn't forgive him now because he was that terrible thing that you're not allowed to be in whether it's an American life of British life and it's a loser he had now lost twice in a row and he lost under suspicious circumstances although Liston returned to the ring for a further 16 bouts he would never fight for the title again in spite of earning millions in winnings Liston did not retire a rich man huge percentages of the money he'd earned in the ring went to the mobsters who controlled his career and as well as being a financial victim of the mob some believed Liston literally became a victim of a mafia hit to this day there are people that think that in fact either he owed money or he crossed somebody or other in Las Vegas where he was living at the time typically and that he might have been murdered again its shadowing might he had been involved in something involving drugs and that's why he was done away with that's very possible Sonny Liston was a guy with many compartments in his life and the one constant was the dark side never went away meanwhile Muhammad Ali would go on to become a boxing legend like his idol Sugar Ray Robinson Ali had taken his own way to the World Championship in the same year as the so called phantom punch Robinson finally announced his retirement at the age of 45 since first winning the middleweight title from Jake LaMotta Robinson had gone on to become champion a total of five times altogether he had fought 200 professional fights winning a hundred and seventy five of them pound for pound he's considered to be the greatest fighter of all time the Madison Square Garden had a night for him and they brought in the fighters he had won the middleweight title from and presented him with with this huge trophy I think the trophy said the world's greatest fighter and you know he got a tremendous applause and everybody hugged him and made a big fuss over him but one person who wasn't allowed into the ring to acknowledge Robinson's greatness that night was his old rival Jake LaMotta despite the fact that they'd fought six thrilling bouts the boxing world still hadn't forgiven LaMotta for throwing the fight against Fox almost 20 years earlier they didn't invite me because I but I a better child a fight house upset shows upset cause the big guy he fought me six times and there are all close fights you don't fight six times unless they're close there were Wars LaMotta and Robinson had they're epic bouts at a time when the Mafia ran the fight game but after the Kefauver hearings and the demise of Sonny Liston the mob had lost its grip on the boxing world the most notorious era in the sports history was over but for many boxing will always remain a dirty business you

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Published: Thu Oct 11 2012