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MF Fort Lauderdale News, Thursday, Nov. 11, 1982 5A Rivenbark along with 14 others on drug smug- gling charges. Camperlengo, who was an associate of Farese, disap peared in 1978 and is murdered. Meier, 37, of Hialeah was "al-leged to have been paid $5,000 at Opa-locka Airport in advance for possible debugging on the ground communication installation at Allen Rivenbark Meyer Lansky Continued from page 4A agents in July 1980. Theodore De-Lisi is awaiting trial in Hardee County, but Charles and John are fugitives who remain active smugglers, according to a July 29 indictment in Hillsborough County naming them and others in running marijuana loads.

Peter Spitz, 44, ran mostly cocaine through two wholesale seafood operations in Oakland Park and Hollywood. He organized and financed a group of "bodypackers," mostly male homosexuals, who smuggled cocaine by swallowing small packets of the drug before passing through Customs. During the Farese investigation, surveillence uncovered several meetings between Rivenbark, Spitz and Farese at Farese's Bridge Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale. "They weren't talking about the restaurant business," a DEA agent said. "We knew of several loads, but we never were able to bust any of them." While awaiting trial, Spitz and his wife were wounded in their car during an unsuccessful assassination attempt.

He was convicted on smuggling charges Jan. 28, 1981, and sentenced to five years in prison." Rivenbark's last known ties to a smuggling venture ended Sept. 4, 1981, when federal agents con- fiscated a ship and 20 tons of marijuana and arrested 32 men on Long Island. Among those arrested was Joseph Ippolito Jr. Agents said the shipment had been arranged by Daniel Death-erage of Miami, who worked direct- ly for Rivenbark.

Deatherage was caught on the ship and Ippolito was arrested on the beach. Both were later convicted. Two months later, while examining the wreckage of Rivenbark's airplane in Colorado, police discovered a diary written by Rivenbark's Japanese bodyguard, Ken Ogawa, who also was killed in the crash. The diary detailed Rivenbark's reaction to the Long Island seizure. "Allen took out a newspaper article on the table and suddenly became very angry.

Dan and 20 others were caught smuggling near New York City. Tonnage: 20 tons," Ogawa wrote. After Farese's conviction, investigators said Rivenbark ran his own smuggling operation. One member of Rivenbark's ring was pilot Bernard Shapiro of North Miami, who is currently appealing his conviction as a part of the FBI's drug smuggling and money laundering investigation code-named Operation Bancoshares. Shapiro, 44, who is reportedly a former chemistry teacher in Philadelphia, was the pilot for Rivenbark's Mitsubishi MU-2 until the pair had a falling out approximately two months before the fatal crash.

According to a DEA report on the Colorado plane crash, Shapiro flew at least two flights for Rivenbark in the fall of 1980. The first, on Sept. 1, was from Nassau to Fort Lauderdale. The second, on Oct. 29, was from Aruba to Fort Lauderdale.

The report reveals that on the second flight Shapiro and Rivenbark were accompanied by Salvatore Motisi and reputed organized crime figure Alfonso Mosca. Black Mountain Ranch," according to the DEA report. Meier's widow, Virginia, firmed her husband was hired by Rivenbark to "do a security survey at the ranch and install closed- circuit TV cameras on ski runs and around the ranch grounds." She said her husband also installed closed circuit TV and eavesdropping de- vices at Rivenbark's North Miami home. The report also notes Meier'sv connections to two West Coast drug traffickers Jose Egozi and A1-. berto Sicilia-Falcon, both former'; Miami residents who were partners in a cocaine importing empire.

Meier's name was found in Ego- zi's telephone book at the-time Egozi's July 1975 arrest in Mexice City oh drug charges. Agents learned that in July 1976, Sicilia--Falcon called Meier's telephone number. Details of the call are not known. Egozi committed suicide in a Mexican prison in 1978. Sicilia- Falcon, said to be a master at' laundering money through Swiss" bank accounts, is currently serving a 130-year sentence in Mexico on charges of drug trafficking and ter rorism, according to a California, i DEA agent familiar with his Tom Farese crash site, no cocaine or explosives were found.

The report took special note of two of the crash victims, Ogawa and Meier. Ogawa, 32, a karate expert, was a bouncer at Hollywood's old Four O'Clock Club before he was hired as Rivenbark's bodyguard. He had been using the name Kenji Bando because he was a fugitive from Dania police charges that he kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 19-year-old prostitute. Ogawa's former boss at the Four O'Clock Club, Mickey Rauso, also was charged in the assault. Rauso later was convicted on lesser charges.

Rauso has been a subject in numerous organized-crime investigations and his boss, club owner Joey Camperlengo, was a convicted felon indicted in New York in 1980 Hallandale hotel consultant John F. Monahan, who said he had been negotiating with Rivenbark to promote the ranch, was scheduled to be on the flight but had to cancel at the last minute because of other business. After learning of the crash while in Denver, Monahan, employer and fiance of Miss Stock, went to the crash site in Eagle, to assist with funeral arrangements for several of the crash victims. The Drug Enforcement Administration began an inquiry within hours after the crash. According to a summary report of the investigation, agents were interested because a Denver agent had been told that the plane might have been carrying cocaine, weapons and explosives linked to a Cuban terrorist group.

While several handguns and hundreds of syringes were found at the Motisi was arrested by Broward Sheriff's undercover agents last July on charges he sold agents two kilos of cocaine at a Fort Lauderdale apartment. He is in the Broward County Jail awaiting trial. Mosca was arrested last summer in New York on charges of importing and possessing two kilos of heroin. He is awaiting trial. At the time of the Nov.

18 crash, Rivenbark and his party were en route to his Black Mountain Guest Ranch in McCoy, Colo. The ranch has been identified by federal agents as a hideout for East Coast Mafia figures. The other victims were Herbert Meier, an electronics expert Rivenbark had hired; Larry Schenfeld, his wife's former husband; Shelly Stock, a hotel consultant; and Howard and Charles Sail, pilot and co-pilot brothers. But for a stroke of fate, there would have been eight victims. StUVI TJUM gurdines Designer luggage safe! 30 to 40 savings! 1 i Ms Diane Von Furstenberg's carefree, contemporary luggage! Each piece is masterfully crafted and designed to offer superb style plus practicality and durability.

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