Word: crimed
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Glick, a wealthy San Diego real estate investor, was a key witness against four organized-crime leaders from Chicago and one from Cleveland in a four-month federal trial that ended last week in Kansas City. The five were charged with helping to skim some $2 million from the Stardust and Fremont casinos. Glick, who bought the casinos in 1974 with $87 million in loans from the Teamsters' Central States pension fund, gave the court vivid details of how the Mob muscled in on his operation...
...soon as he acquired control, Glick testified, he was told to place Frank Rosenthal, a Stardust employee, in charge of the casinos. The order came from Frank Balistrieri, 67, a Milwaukee crime boss who had helped Glick get the Teamsters loan. (Balistrieri pleaded guilty after the trial began. So did DeLuna, 58.) Glick complied, but when he later wanted to fire Rosenthal, he was given a blunt warning. Glick testified that Rosenthal said to him, "I was told not to tolerate any nonsense from you because you are not my boss. If you don't do what you're told...
...Chicago; and Cleveland Mob Leader Milton J. Rockman, 71. Each could be sentenced to 40 years in jail. Chicago FBI Chief Edward Hegarty called the convictions of the Midwest's top mobsters, along with earlier guilty pleas of Mob leaders in Kansas City, "the most significant prosecution of organized-crime figures in the history of the U.S." An even bigger Mafia trial is to start next March in New York City, where leaders of all five of the city's powerful crime families will face racketeering charges...
...Treasury has imposed similar penalties on twelve other banks in the past eleven months as part of an effort to crack down on money laundering--the diversion of cash earned in illegal activities into legitimate channels. The Government, however, did not accuse Bank of America of dealing with organized crime...
...women who have goalsin life," says Merculieff of her classmates atHarvard. "My personal friends [at home] give uphope, accept the fact they can't be leaders in thenative community, and I just don't agree withthat." Merculieff founded and directed a statewideagency for stranded rural Alaskans in Anchoragewhich provides crime prevention training andemergency aid for victims...