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DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1977 1 Tp YS (I i t-7 I Mm me we empire em; iLong il SULTANS OF SMUT By WILLIAM FEDERICI and THOMAS COLLINS The end came for Joseph (Joe Bikini) Brocchini in a back room of Parliament Auto Sales in Woodside, Queens. Brocchini, 43, the owner of the automotive business at 69-11 Roosevelt was finishing- a long day of work in the spring heat and preparing to drive home to his $225,000 mansion on Polly Park Road, in Harrison, N.Y., when a man with a gun stopped him. He was led to a back room. There, the gunman fired five shots into the back of Brocchini's head. At the time, last May 18, Brocchini, a reputed boss in the Carmine Tramunti crime family, was known as a big-time smut peddler.

He had controlled three pornographic-magazine-and-film wholesale firms which made an estimated $1.5 million a year. He also controlled either the buildings or the leases on several of Times Square's most lucrative and notorious pornographic book stores. The police suspect that Brocchini was murdered because of his activities in other rackets, which included gambling, narcotics and guns. Whatever the motive, the murder left a hole in the power structure of Times Square. Jackson Heights, Queens, and operate the smut enterprises at 136 W.

42d St. and 227 W. 42d St. Vincent Borello, of 17-62 166th Whitestone. Queens, would continue to run the male homosexual book section at 711 Seventh and the entire operation at 257 W.

42d St. Later, Alfred and James would invest $15,000 each, and obtain $10,000 from two other silent partners, to open Romero's Book Shop at 247 W. 42d SU As a result, Brocchini's death caused barely a ripple in the day-to-day operations of Times Square's porn emporiums. Sonny Scotti, Brocchini's undisputed heir, is unknown to most of his neighbors in Sayville. where he lives with his wife and two teenaged children.

But in Times Square he is a kind of father figure to many younger smut merchants. He employs nearly a dozen clerks and runs his smut fiefdom with a Machiavellian flare. He fires his people and rehires them on whim. And he is generous. He carries a fat wad of money and is known as a big spender, a frequent visitor to the track and a heavy bettor.

He is a casual dresser, preferring the open-collar leisure-suit look complete with lots of garish jewelry. He is a family man, talking frequently about his children. An older son works for him in a porno shop. Scotti's nights on the town consist mainly of taking pals to a saloon and paying for all the drinks. Brocchini's brother-in-law, Alfred (Sonny) Scotti, 48, had been working for Brocchini in Times Square for several years.

Scotti, a former cab driver, was heartbroken about Joe Bikini's slaying, which remains unsolved. Scotti summoned his brother, James Scotti, 31, and two pals, Ralph Borello, 31, and Vincent Borello, 35, to a Times Square bar. All were boyhood chums, from Pleasant Ave. They were also involved in the smut business. At stake were hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits from Brocchini's book stores, especially the Black Jack Book Shop at 210 W.

42d St. After consultations with several silent partners, it was decided that Alfred Scotti, who lives in a $60,000 colonial-style home at 37 Clair Lane, in Sayville, L.I., would operate Black Jack. James Scotti, who iives at 18 Tennessee Long Beach, L.I., would go into partnership with Ralph Borello, of 19-54 79th Saemtt Workers: Imports Put Us on iack Mil By MICHAEL PATTERSON To chants of "We want work, not welfare," nearly 10,000 garment workers jammed into Herald Square yesterday to protest the flood of clothing imports which, they charge, has washed away hundreds of thousands of American jobs. The rally, organized by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, coincided with similar protests by 500.000 workers in 40 other states and a White House meeting between President Carter and a labor delegation led by AFL-CIO president George Meany. Carrying signs in English, Spanish and Chinese, the thousands of workers left their sewing machines and cutting rooms at 11 a.m.

and marched from the garment center to Herald Square for the two-hour rally. They were met by public officials, including Mayor Beame, Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton, Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams, Rep. Herman Badillo (D-Bronx) and City Council President Paul O'Dwyer. In the record heat and with a brass band playing the ILGWU's theme song, "Look for the Union Label," the rally quickly developed an almost carnival atmosphere and the enthusiastic crowd cheered long and loud as speaker after speaker called for tighter controls on imports.

Beame was warmly received when he told the crowd: "I ask all New Yorkers to look for the union label and buy American The cause of your crusade today concerns not only the whole country's future, but the future of your industry and our city." Specifically, the unions want President Carter and Congress to tighten provisions of the international Multifib-er Textile Treaty, which comes up for renegotiation Monday in Geneva. The TT News photo by Robert Rosamilio Herald Square as thousands of garment workers gathered for protest demonstration vesterdav. port. "Now," Daniels said, "one out of every three garments is a foreign import." The American worker cannot compete with "slave wages" paid in foreign countries he said, citing the 32 cents per hour wage in Korea, 21 cents in India and 18 cents in Haiti. treaty now allows imports to increase at an annual 6 rate.

The unions want the rate cut in half. Moynihan drew lusty cheers he blasted the federal negotiators for balking at trying to get a new agreement that would reduce textile import growth to 3. State Department and Treasury officials have been "all over tl world, but doubt like hell they've ever been to the garment district," he cried. Pointing out that unemployment in the needle trades has increased by 36 in the last seven years, Wilbur Daniels, executive vice president of the ILGWU, said that 20 years ago one out of every 400 garments in- the stores was an im Slap-on- Wrist Bail Set in Big Dope Case By WILLIAM HEFFERNAN An 18-year-old suspected heroin dealer who allegedly was using an 11-year-old boy to sell his junk on a Harlem street corner has been set free in $5,000 bail, reportedly on the recommendation of the Manhattan district attorney's office. Morgenthau said he was looking into the request for only $5,000 bail to determine whether or not that was the proper decision.

Morgenthau said he understood that his office had intended to seek $10,000. "How it came to be lowered to $5,000 is something I cannot yet answer," ha said. Criminal Court Judge Morris Last Monday, The News asked read ers how to handle the pornography problem. Speak Out telephone lines were busy all day as men, women and a number of young people called to offer their opinions on how to deal with the growing number of stores, shops and theaters specializing in sexploitation. Daily News editorial staffers have completed their screening of more than a thousand Speak Out messages and in tomorrow's editions you will learn how the public feels about this controversial topic.

Read tomorrow's full-page Speak Out report in The News. Schwalb said yesterday that he released the suspect, Ronald Cheribin of 262 W. 115th last Friday, after Assistant District Attorney Lawrence Winger recommended that the court set bail at $5,000. Cheribin's girl friend was allegedly waiting in the courtroom with a paper bag containing "more than enough to handle the bail." Judge Schwalb said he was unaware that Cheribin had allegedly used an 11-year-old to sell heroin. He said he also was not advised that Cheribin allegedly had 2.7 pounds of the narcotic in his possession when uniformed cops, who were said to have observed the street sales of the 11-year-old, burst into Cheribin's apartment and arrested him last Thursday.

Schwalb said that Cheribin has since been indicted for possession of heroin by a Manhattan grand jury and could be subject to rearrest and a new bail hearing if the district attorney's office chooses. Cheribin is now scheduled to appear for a preliminary hearing April 23. Manhattan District Attorney Robert New Jersey Lottery Pick It: 194 Straight Payoff: $279.50 Connecticut Lottery Pick It: 053.