Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chicago Cubs (ss) 6, Cleveland...
Milwaukee 128, Cleveland...
...RICO law had already been used to indict some Mafia clan leaders in New York (including Carmine Persico, 51, a Colombo family chieftain), Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Rochester. Charges of skimming $2 million in cash from casinos in Las Vegas have also been leveled against high Mafia figures in Chicago, Kansas City and Milwaukee...
...core of the federal case is expected to be its charge that the Mafia is governed by a national commission consisting of the five New York bosses and family leaders from Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Cleveland, Philadelphia and New England. Federal investigators contend that the Mob's most lucrative operations and major disciplinary acts, including the elimination of top figures who have disobeyed the rules, must be approved by the commission and that the New York bosses effectively control this ruling body. Investigators say that Corallo talked frequently about the commission in his conversations in the Jaguar. Thus...
ARRESTED. Jim Brown, 49, former Cleveland Browns star fullback; after an % unidentified 33-year-old woman filed a complaint alleging that he beat and raped her with the help of another woman; in Los Angeles. Brown, who has faced several previous assault charges, was released on $17,500 bail pending an investigation of the incident; no charges have yet been filed by a prosecutor...