Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Light, 50, appeared before the President's Commission on Organized Crime in Washington last week, he became the first "lawyer gone bad," in the parlance of law-enforcement officials, to give public testimony to the Federal Government. Appearing under heavy security--as well as a grant of immunity from prosecution--the dapper former attorney, who is serving a 15-year sentence for heroin possession, fielded questions with a sometimes nonchalant candor during a two-hour session...
These cautionary tales confront wide-eyed readers of the new book Girls, Be Vigilant!, an official publication of the Chinese government. The usually puritanical press is blossoming with articles on sex, one sign that traditional policies of sexual repression are undergoing attack. The sex-crime rate has soared, particularly cases of rape, which is sometimes defined to include simple seduction. Divorce is also up, and the New China News Agency reports that "disharmonious sexual life arising from a lack of sexual knowledge" is now placing great strain on many families...
...drug dealers, quiet white-collar criminals and loud banner headlines. Like Thomas Dewey and Henry Stimson, earlier New York prosecutors who parlayed their convictions into prominent national careers, Giuliani has become a high-profile, white-hatted gangbuster in an age when the public yearns for someone to prove that crime doesn...
...Sicilian , Mafia are accused of importing $1.6 billion worth of heroin into the U.S. The jewel in the crown is the "Commission" trial, sometimes called "The Case of Cases," which is set to begin next month. In what could be the most significant assault on the infrastructure of organized crime since the high command of the Chicago Mafia was swept away in 1943, the dons of the five major Mafia families that dominate the East Coast are charged with operating a "ruling council" that controls a variety of illegal enterprises. The case, which Giuliani will try himself, uses the Racketeer...
...beginning in 1970. His lapidary cross-examination of Democratic U.S. Representative Bertram Podell of Brooklyn, who confessed on the witness stand to conspiracy charges, and his relentless hammering away at undercover cops on the take established the leitmotivs of his career: the passionate prosecution of public corruption and organized crime. While serving a stint in the Justice Department during the Ford Administration, he completed his gradual metamorphosis from a Robert Kennedy Democrat to a registered Republican...