Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many smokers, the smuggling of cigarettes from low-tax to high-tax states is a victimless crime-a free-enterprise way to bring down prices. Lawmakers see it differently. This week a law goes into effect in Ohio that makes "buttlegging" of as little as $60 worth of smokes a felony punishable by a minimum six-month prison term for the first offense. Ohio thus joins eight other states in recognizing that cigarette smuggling is no mere misdemeanor but a crime that drains their treasuries of badly needed revenue...
...growing crime too. Cigarette bootlegging is now a big business in 23 high-tax states, mostly in the Northeast and Midwest. The U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations puts the total loss of revenue at $400 million a year. A quarter of that loss occurs in New York: other hard-hit states include Texas ($45 million), Florida ($36 million) and Illinois ($25 million). Worse still, cigarette smuggling has become an important revenue producer for organized crime, ranking fourth behind gambling, prostitution and narcotics. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, who conducted Senate buttlegging hearings last month, says that...
...most scandalous case it has ever been my duty to prosecute," the Suffolk County, N.Y., district attorney has already obtained indictments against the two doctors, as well as the anesthesiologist, supervisory nurse and hospital, charging them with second-degree assault and the attempted cover-up of a crime. The four individuals have pleaded not guilty. But state investigators say that the case is only a beginning, and that there will be similar revelations of surgical wrongdoing in other places...
...Pointe, Mich. A Sicilian immigrant who started as a construction worker, Zerilli rose to underworld prominence during the Prohibition era and reportedly built a narcotics, prostitution and loan-sharking empire that annually netted $150 million during the '60s. Although he repeatedly denied that he was involved in organized crime-maintaining that he was simply the owner of the Detroit Italian Baking Co.-FBI bugging transcripts linked him to the underworld. After the 1975 imprisonment of his son, Zerilli came under scrutiny by police investigating the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa...
Kennedy. Plots will doubtless continue to be spun out of the coincidences, contradictions and inconsistencies that surround the crime. But McMillan amply demonstrates that Oswald had no need of any of the world's intelligence services to steady his hand, eye and malevolent will as the Kennedy motorcade rolled into his line of fire in Dallas. He had long before been possessed of the essential preconditions for his crime: abundantly sufficient interior motives and a proven predisposition for homicidal violence...