Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headline in the daily El Tiempo seemed to say it all: ONCE AGAIN THE MAFIA MAKES A FOOL OF COLOMBIA. The paper was denouncing the release from prison last week of Billionaire Jorge Ochoa Vasquez, 38, reputedly a leader of a crime cartel that supplies 80% of the cocaine consumed in the U.S. Ever since Ochoa was arrested at a roadblock on Nov. 21, Washington and Bogota had been negotiating over his extradition to the U.S., where he is wanted on drug trafficking charges...
...principal setting is Howard Beach, a working-class section of the borough of Queens, described a bit too graphically by Breslin as a "white finger of land that sticks into Jamaica Bay by Kennedy Airport." Across a field of tall bulrushes is East New York, a Third World of crime, drugs and hunger...
...about a dozen youths confronted the black men. One of the blacks pulled a knife. Griffith, 23, was chased onto a highway by some members of the gang and was killed by a passing car. The youths then severely beat one of Griffith's companions. Defense attorneys described the crime as a simple "fight," and pointed out that two of the victims had criminal records...
...involvement in the Wedtech affair is still being probed by Independent Counsel James McKay, who issued an interim report last week that fell short of fully clearing him. He said there was "insufficient evidence as of this date" to accuse the Attorney General of having "knowingly participated" in any crime. But, he added, "this is an interim, and not a final, determination." Referring to Meese, McKay explained that he eventually hopes to pursue a "number of unresolved questions on his involvement with Wedtech Corp. and other matters...
Still, a case could be made that Boesky got off lightly. Said Samuel Buffone, who serves on the American Bar Association's white-collar-crime committee: "You can see people convicted of relatively petty crimes being sentenced to about the same time that Mr. Boesky received for crimes involving sums of money many, many times larger." Law-enforcement officials estimate that with good behavior, Boesky will probably wind up serving no more than 20 months...