$IM price on mobster
! NZPA Washington Gary Bowdach, the former j crime-syndicate “hit man” I who testified about organised crime in United States Senate hearings last week, has said he has learned that the underworld has placed a SIM price on his head. Bowdach, who is 35, a confessed murderer, arsonist,; and dope smuggler, now: serving a 15-year sentence for loan sharking in Miami,! has detailed crimes of his; former cronies to Federal; authorities.
il Now under the Federal;: witness protection pro-! I - gramme, Bowdach has told' ’ United Press International in! i -a telephone interview that I i 5 his greatest danger is caused; , by his plans to testify for j: t the Government in future! i[trials of top crime figures. p United States marshals c ii would not permit a face-to- ,; face interview. i ■i “The price on me at this i i time, as I am getting it i (from somebody in Miami, is I ;) one million,” Bowdach said. < ;fhe self-described hoodlum :t I turned informant said he has't
an informant of his own in; Miami. “There are many cases) that are going to be brought; in Federal court on informa-, tion that I have supplied, especially information per-; taining to investigations of a sensitive nature ...” Bow-' dach said. Bowdach is trying to win a quick parole so he can be , relocated under an assumed identity rather than re-enter the prison system. He says a corrupted guard or inmate might carry out a “contract”; to kill him. 11
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