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A16 Asbury Park June 9, 1985 Long Branch couple's son prosecutor in spy probe A) yx, -p a A 6iT -X. Stl' i on a newspaper route, and often treated his neighborhood pals to sweets at the candy store on pay day, his mother recalled. During his teen years, he worked in the kitchen of Ilvento's West End Manor, and then moved to the Surf Side Beach Gub, where he was eventually named head cabana boy. "We were very strict with our three children," Mrs. Russoniello said.

"We both came from very strict backgrounds, and we instilled the same in our kids." After his graduation from St Peter's Prep School in Jersey City, Russoniello enrolled in Fairfield University in Connecticut where he earned a bachelor's degree in social science. Then it was onto New York University's law school followed by a brief stint as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Memphis. "He got a gun and a handshake from J. Edgar Hoover," Mrs. Russoniello said of her son's graduation ceremony from the agency's training program.

"I said, 'You're not going to use that And he said, 'J. Edgar Hoover would not want to hear my mom saying I don't want to use my Russoniello worked for a private law firm in San Francisco, served as an assistant district attorney, and ran unsuccessfully for district attorney before he was appointed to his current post in 1982 by President Reagan. "He loves the government, but he's not a politician," Mrs. Russoniello said. "He loves his country and the government, and he wants to make it work.

He's not afraid of hard work." The current, highly publicized spy case isn't the first time Russoniello has been thrust into the limelight Three years ago, his office was involved in a computer espionage case centering on the Mitsui Japan's second largest steel manufacturer. The company was accused of defrauding the U.S. Customs Service. They remember visiting his San Francisco office, only to be issued a firm warning. "He said, 'Please don't look on my desk.

These things are Mrs. Russoniello said. "You can't even tell your own mother and father. Your country is first" Sometimes, however, there are hints of things to come. "The only thing he told us was he might be on TV on Tuesday," the senior Russoniello said.

"Something's coming up, but we have no idea." It's not often the couple have the chance to see their son. But once a month, Mrs. Russoniello said he ships her fresh flowers from California. And ever other year, the couple, who are retired, visit their son and his wife, Moira, at their home in St. Francis Wood, outside of San Francisco.

As U.S. attorney in the northern region of California, Russoniello's territory includes San Luis Obispo north to the Oregon border. When he takes business trips to the east coast, Russoniello drops in for an overnight stay, his parents said. He jogs on the Long Branch boardwalk, and sometimes bumps into friends and acquaintances from his summers at the beach club. By JANET MAZUR Press Asbury Park Bureau LONG BRANCH Justine Russoniello and Sabin, her husband, woke early one morning last week to the sound of a ringing telephone.

It was a niece from North Jersey urging them to snap on the television. Once again the Russoniello's eldest son, Joseph, was the source of a network television interview in connection with one of the most sensational espionage cases in the last 30 years. Joseph P. Russoniello, who grew up in Jersey City and spent his summer vacations here, is the U.S. Attorney in California prosecuting the case against a family spy ring accused of selling military secrets to the Soviets.

Last week, the Russoniellos sat in the living room of their 61 West End Ave. home, and proudly told of their son's accomplishments. They pulled out scrapbooks and folders crammed with newspaper clippings, photographs and other mementos chronicling his career. Joseph, they said, demonstrated leadership abilities at a tender age, and always showed an affinity for hard work, beginning with his experiences at age 8 in the family's Jersey City bakery. "Joe was my best helper," said his father, who affectionately remembers rousing the boy at 3 in the morning, so the two could deliver fresh baked goods to customers in the neighborhood.

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