Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like prosecuting," he says. "It's a morally live universe. What I like about the Chicago office is that they deal not only with individuals at the bottom end of the spectrum, they also deal with a lot of white collar crime and political corruption. I am happy to be involved with that. I find it progressive. And I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people behave in ways that everybody else hates...
...What a crime! Striking U.M.W. members receiving food stamps at taxpayers' expense. If the strikers don't work, let them go hungry...
...York City office used by Anthony M. Scotto, president of the Brooklyn longshoremen's local and one of the more unusual figures on the waterfront. A graduate of Brooklyn College, he was named by the Justice Department in 1969 as an alleged captain in the Gambino crime family. Nonetheless, he has remained respectable enough to lecture on labor at Harvard and attend a White House conference in the Johnson...
...aggrieved employees, angry (or envious) neighbors and other informants last year collected rewards totaling more than $360,000 for snitches that produced $14.9 million in extra taxes. What is more, the IRS always tries to audit the returns of those people fingered by law-enforcement authorities as suspected organized-crime figures...
...newly recognized fraternity of victims: the battered husbands. Though jokes about rolling-pin-wielding wives have long been a male staple, researchers are now finding increasingly that such bittersweet humor is all too often a black-and-blue reality. Says University of Delaware Sociologist Suzanne Steinmetz: "The most unreported crime is not wife beating-it's husband beating...