Faking It: How Mafia Bosses Bribe Doctors to Escape Justice
Soldiers are part of the family, but they hold little power and make relatively little money. The number of soldiers under any given capo can vary tremendously. In addition to soldiers, the Mafia uses associates. They're not actual members of the Mafia, but they work with Mafia soldiers ...
It would also subject computer fraud to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) of 1970 — a law designed to charge Mafia bosses with crimes committed by their underlings, but now broadly applied in both criminal and civil cases against all manner of organizations. The RICO...
Thanks to Mafia renegades, police last fall made 241 gang arrests in Sicily alone, in their biggest operation in eight years. Top bosses have fallen not only in Sicily but also among crime families in Calabria and the Naples region. Others have been extradited from abroad. Not only mobsters ...
There are numerous opponents of casinos and a fair amount of evidence showing that they do cause economic harm to communities and individuals. Casino money also acts as a magnet for corruption, and for many years "casino owner" was synonymous with "Mafia boss." As the casino business in Neva...
“I didn’t promise u anything or make u do anything. This is a very uncool conversation.” “We all know the truth,” Kirk texted. Tsujihara’s attorney, Bert H. Deixler, would vehemently deny that there was nonconsensual sex between Tsujihara and Kirk, or that his client was using...
But Minkow was having money troubles even from the start, trouble paying back the money he had borrowed to get the company going. Padgett got a notice from the bank that Minkow had missed several payments on the loan Padgett had obtained. Then, his bosses at Allstate called him in and as...
A RICO case would give the task force the ability to tie many seemingly unconnected conspiracies together, and prosecute the alleged bosses overseeing them, like Safieddine, participants say. It would also allow authorities to seize potentially billions in assets, they say, and to use the ...
Jen, dees cartwheels, whaddaya collar right now? What do you call it (‘cause I’m him (see also Robert Downey, Jr. in “The Singing Detective”) Are you faking?) Are we faking? Or, have you heard this all over? A machine, two road miners, 5:30. I can’t compete. So I can...
The weather and time of day also affect the surrounding world, but not as much as we would like. Daytime animals do not always hide at night, and nighttime animals can easily run in the sunlight. I would like more realism, but even so, the world feels alive. And what is especially ni...