Word: crimed
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...history. But some Chicagoans would rather forget the legendary mobster. When Mark Levell, 29, a computer technician and amateur historian, proposed to the U.S. Interior Department that it designate as a historic site the red brick house on Chicago's South Side where Scarface lived during his 1920s crime wave, he sparked a heated reaction...
...bricks cost about $450 per 1,000 on the retail market, dealers pay the thieves only $50. Since Detroit tears down 2,000 to 3,000 abandoned buildings a year, police are not terribly concerned about the thefts. The most troubling aspect of this new inner-city crime wave is the motive of most of the culprits: to get enough cash for another hit of crack. "Brick stealing is on the upswing, and it's directly tied to the price of the brick," says Charles H. Smith Jr., president of the Oakman Boulevard Community Association. "Crackheads will steal anything...
Money laundering is not a crime in Switzerland unless it can be shown that the cash flows from criminal activities. Yet Switzerland is a magnet for money launderers because of its legitimate multibillion-dollar trade in foreign bank notes. As much as 3,000 lbs. of foreign currency arrives daily at Zurich's Kloten airport. Much of the cash represents earnings from tourism, which each country's banks exchange for local currency. Swiss authorities are investigating charges that Lebanese currency dealer Barkev Magharian, 35, and his brother Jean, 44, both of whom are now in custody, took advantage of that...
Players like former Iowa footballer Ronnie Harmon, now a pro with the Buffalo Bills, told of signing surreptitiously with Walters and Bloom and getting thousands in "loans," meanwhile receiving college scholarship money and taking such courses as bowling, billiards and watercolor painting. The agents used links to organized crime to keep their clients in line. The Chicago Bears' Maurice Douglass testified that when he tried to get out of his contract while a senior at the University of Kentucky, Bloom threatened to have somebody break his legs. The verdict, suggested U.S. Attorney Anton Valukas, sent a different but equally tough...
Four months after Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up by a bomb concealed in a radio-cassette player, nobody has been charged with the crime. But U.S. Government sources say it is now believed that the bomb was carried onto the Boeing 747, apparently unknowingly, by a passenger who died in the explosion...