DRUG DEALER PLEADS GUILTY

NEW YORK - BROOKLYN - An Israeli drug dealer who once threatened to kill
Salvatore Gravano, the Mafia hit man whose ferocity led to his nickname,
Sammy the Bull, pleaded guilty yesterday in Federal District Court to
charges of running a sprawling drug gang that flooded New York City and
Arizona with nearly four million Ecstasy pills over three years. The
defendant, Ilan Zarger, 31, was once captured on videotape, prosecutors
have said, boasting that his organization had "someone standing by to
whack" Mr. Gravano, who has been accused of running a rival drug gang in
Arizona. Mr. Zarger is to be sentenced on April 6. Alan Feuer (NYT)