 Holtzman ran a negative ad accusing Ferraro and Zaccaro of taking more than $ 300 @,@ 000 in rent in the 1980s from a pornographer with ties to organized crime . Ferraro said there had been efforts to oust the man , Robert DiBernardo , after reports of the tenancy originated during her 1984 vice @-@ presidential campaign , but he had remained in the building for three more years . In addition , a report by an investigator for the New York State Organized Crime Task Force found its way to the media via a tip from a Holtzman aide ; it said that Zaccaro had been seen meeting with the DiBernardo in 1985 . Ferraro said in response that those two had never met . 
