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MR. POWELL: Fosco told me -- this was in July
of '81 -- the Joint Executive Board was in town. And
that evening we were at the Hay-Adams Hotel having
dinner or we had had dinner. And he had gotten a little
intoxicated and he called me to the side. And he says,
"I understand that you are running against me and you
got certain people on the staff as your campaign mana-
ger."
I says, "Angelo, whoever told you that, bring
them before me." I says, "I have no such intention."
He says, "Powell, you're dead, you're dead."
And I said to him, "We arc going to have it
this way. One of us is going to hell tonight or both
of us. So you make your move and I'll meet you. 1I
By this time his son Peter and one of the
staff named Jim Nellwood came and got him and taken him
out of the room and, I assume, they carried him upstairs
to his room.
MR. RYAN: In the time that you were involved
wi th LIUNA, had you ever heu.rd Mr. l-'osco threate!1
anyone's life before?
MR. POWELL: No one particular, but I have
always heard him use the phrase, "I'll break his legs."
MR. RYAN: Did you ever hear him say that