Sarecho “Sammy the Arab” Nalo was a 57-year-old man of Iraqi descent, a Detroit-born figure who had drifted through the underworld long enough to become both useful and dangerous to the people who profited from him. By the late 1980s he was tied, in various accounts of organized-crime activity, to gambling and racketeering disputes in New York City—exactly the kind of territory and tribute feuds that rarely ended with a handshake. The nickname that followed him into court records and later
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