The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream (65 page)

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The motley coalition:
Interview with Joan Maruskin, July 17, 2008.

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Following the arrival of the ship:
Josh Friedman, “NY Head Chosen for Key INS Post: Nomination Brings Praise & Outrage,”
Newsday
, May 28, 1994.

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But after a few short years:
Molly Gordy, “INS Managers Demand Ax for Boss,”
New York Daily News
, December 3, 1996; Molly Gordy, “INS Big Gave Korean Bizmen a Break After a Game of Golf,”
New York Daily News
, December 5, 1996; Molly Gordy, “Spying, Fraud, News to Me, Insists Fed,”
New York Daily News
, December 5, 1996; Mae Cheng, “Top INS Aide Replaced,”
Newsday
, April 15, 1997.

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We sat at Slattery’s:
Interview with Bill Slattery, July 7, 2008.

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I thought about Sister Ping:
Cheng Chui Ping v. United States of America, petition for a writ of certiorari in the United States Supreme Court, October Term 2008.

336.
I thought about the hundred or so passengers:
There is no way to know the precise figure. The
New York Times
puts the number at “at least half,” or fifty-five or so; Nina Bernstein, “Making It Ashore, but Still Chasing U.S. Dream,
New York Times
, April 9, 2006. But in interviews with several
Golden Venture
passengers and numerous supporters from York who continue to keep track of the passengers, I have heard that closer to one hundred are now thought to have returned.

337.
On weekends amateur divers:
“United Caribbean Physical Data and Notes,” dive notes by Dave Gillings, May 13, 2006, published on the Web site of the Palm Beach County Reef Re search Team (
www.pbcrrt.org
).

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After the ship:
Seth Faison, “Part of Immigrant Nightmare Goes on the Block,”
New York Times
, August 10, 1993.

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Eventually local authorities:
Amy Waldman, “Smuggling Ship to Become a Reef Off Florida,”
New York Times
, August 19, 2000.

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One day in 2000:
Caryl Clarke,
“Golden Venture
to Sink,”
York Daily
Record
, August 18, 2000.

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The snakehead : an epic tale of the Chinatown underworld and the
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