Word: crime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twin trials have brought a mob of 32 defendants to the federal courthouse on Foley Square. In the celebrated "pizza connection" trial, the Government contends that the Bonanno crime family conspired with Sicilian Mafia counterparts to bring $1.6 billion worth of heroin into the U.S. from 1977 to 1984. The case owes its spicy nickname to the pizza parlors allegedly used as fronts for heroin smuggling...
...resale with forged registrations. His case will be followed next week by the racketeering trial of New York's Colombo family and its reputed boss, Carmine ("the Snake") Persico. Next month comes the first of two trials for "Matty the Horse" Ianniello and other purported members of the Genovese crime family on charges that include racketeering and extortion...
During his two years as U.S. Attorney, Giuliani has been a highly visible crusader against organized crime, giving detailed press conferences and turning up on national television to trumpet his indictments. Critics have accused him of trying and convicting defendants before they have even been arraigned. Some detractors think that Giuliani is preparing a political career in the tradition of onetime New York Prosecutor Thomas Dewey, who rose to fame in New York in the 1930s by winning convictions against such famous criminals as Louis Lepke and Lucky Luciano. Giuliani insists that his goal is simply to defeat...
Three minutes after California's new automated fingerprint identification system received its first assignment, the crime-stopping computer scored a direct hit. It matched a smudged print lifted from an orange Toyota in Los Angeles to one taken from a 25-year-old drifter with a record of drug and auto-theft arrests. Two days later, Richard Ramirez was caught and charged with one of 15 murders attributed to the Night Stalker, the serial killer who had been terrorizing the city for the past seven months...
...real policemen know that they rarely get good prints from a handgun and that any they do find are often useless. Fingerprints can prove that a particular suspect was at the scene of a crime, but when investigators have only prints and no suspect, the odds of finding a match are greatly reduced. Los Angeles police estimate that it would have taken a single expert searching manually through the city's 1.7 million print cards 67 years to come up with Richard Ramirez's prints. "Frankly speaking," says Commander Bill Rathburn, "most of the dusting for prints...