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...“49ers Legends Montana, Eddie DeBartolo Plan Luxury Hotel, Entertainment Venue Across from Santa Clara Stadium Site” by Mike Swift; San Jose Mercury News; 12/12/2010.
Former 49ers great Joe Montana and ex-owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr. are two of the most storied names in franchise history. Now they’re maneuvering to participate in the 49ers’ most ambitious real estate venture ever: the $937 million stadium the team hopes to build in Santa Clara for the 2015 season.
Montana, DeBartolo and a third business partner, Connecticut developer Kurt Wittek, want to build a luxury hotel, sports bar and entertainment complex on two parcels of city-owned land adjacent to the site of the planned 68,500-seat stadium. The Hall of Fame quarterback and his partners capped a series of meetings with Santa Clara officials with a written request last week for an 18-month exclusive negotiating agreement to complete a deal. . . . .
4b. The Montana real estate deal, in which he partnered with DeBartolo, apparently led to the FBI investigating the group.
Although everyone involved claims that there was nothing suspicious, a San Jose Mercury News article observes that Kurt Wittek was convicted of bank fraud in a Savings and Loan scam in North Carolina.
Interestingly, this story does NOT mention that Eddie DeBartolo was involved. The San Francisco Chronicle article above–which DOES mention DeBartolo’s involvement, does NOT mention Wittek’s criminal background.
“FBI Reportedly Eyed Joe Montana, then Dropped Probe” by Philip Matier and Andrew Ross; San Francisco Chronicle; 5/5/2014.
The FBI sting operation that snared state Sen. Leland Yee and Chinatown tong leader Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow was snooping around an even bigger Bay Area name — 49ers football legend Joe Montana — but came up empty, according to informed sources. ...
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...Lamar Waldron, an author of several books about the mafia, says Shaw’s account of the meeting rings true. “In the early 1970s, proposed deals were usually brought to Trafficante and Marcello by other cities’ mob leaders, businessmen and lawyers for the mob,” says Waldron, whose book “Legacy of Secrecy” is being developed into a film by Leonardo DiCaprio with Robert De Niro slated to play Marcello. “They’d accept some, pass on others. I know Marcello and Trafficante also met during that period in the Tampa area.”
After the men left the pro shop, Shaw says he stayed hidden in the darkened room for a half hour until he was certain they were gone.
“Mobsters have been here for centuries,” Shaw says of Tampa, where he has lived his entire life. “There were gangland murders on top of one another. I was brought up with the fear factor. You don’t mess around with these people. You stay clear of them, and you don’t do anything that would make them angry.”
But as he approaches his 80th birthday this December, Shaw says he is motivated to tell his story. “There are certain things in my life that I have to talk about, have to get off my chest,” he says of the meeting, which he says occurred during the last week of 1972 or the first week in 1973. “It’s been 40 years, OK, and I’ve carried this with me for 40 years. … The fear is gone. … And I wanted to make sure, if possible, I could set the record straight — let the world know that this was not what it seemed to be.”
...A boxing promoter and television producer named Jerry Perenchio, who promoted the Ali-Frazier bout in 1971 as “The Fight,” organized “The Battle of the Sexes” between King and Riggs. He put up a $100,000 winner-take-all prize for the best-of-five sets match and arranged for it to be played in the Houston Astrodome in prime-time on national television. ...
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