Original sentence: A trial that had followed a ten year investigation, designed to take everyone from boss to street soldier out of action for ever, that had generated 240 volumes and 850 exhibits of evidence, and cost the taxpayer millions of dollars, became not only the longest in history but failed.In August 1985, authorities in New Jersey indicted Anthony Accetturo, Martin Taccetta and eighteen of the men who ran the Lucchese crime family
Edited sentence: A trial that had followed a ten year investigation, designed to take everyone from boss to street soldier out of action for ever, that had generated 240 volumes and 850 exhibits of evidence, and cost the taxpayer millions of dollars, became not only the longest in history but possibly the most embarrassing in history to those that tried it, and failed.In August 1985, using the famous RICO statute as a hammer, authorities in New Jersey attempted to nail down and destroy Anthony Accetturo, Martin Taccetta and eighteen of the men who ran the Lucchese crime family in the Garden State