Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corrupt high-level officials seem to be playing a larger role than ever in the international drug trade. In Miami last week, DEA agents arrested Norman Saunders, Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British protectorate of tiny islands north of Haiti. Arrested along with him were his Minister of Commerce and Development, a member of the islands' legislature, and a French-Canadian businessman who lives in the Bahamas. Saunders, accompanied by the others, allegedly accepted $50,000 from undercover agents as down payment for providing a safe stopover for a plane carrying drugs from South America...
...figures of Peter Quint (William Cotton) and Miss Jessel (Juhe Kierstine). They both come to life to haunt and terrify the inhabitants of the country house. Quint, an amoral seducer of women and children, has a vaguely sexual psychic hold over Miles. Cotton is powerful as this corrupt character not only because of his impressive voice, but in the way he portrays Quint's chllings unremorseful villainy. The governess battles against him, fighting to save the children from his voice-like hold...
...case is the first in which the Government contends that a "commission" of bosses directs Mafia operations throughout the U.S., and that it is a "corrupt organization" within the meaning of the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The U.S. Attorney says that investigators have acquired 4,000 hours of secretly taped conversations among the mobsters, and he promises to produce 30 or more witnesses against them. The 41-page indictment cites 15 racketeering counts, including five Mob murders, narcotics trafficking, loan-sharking, and alleged control of New York's concrete industry...
...weapon brandished by Giuliani and other federal prosecutors is a 1970 law dubbed RICO, since it is aimed at "racketeer-influenced and corrupt organizations." Under the statute, the leaders of any organization can be prosecuted when the group's members commit crimes that show a pattern of racketeering. Prosecutors do not have to prove that the leader personally committed the illegal acts, only that he supported the specific crimes in some way, such as approving them or sharing in any illegal profits...
...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 the commission itself is expected to be cited in the indictment as a corrupt organization...