Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...received life sentences was Michele Greco, 63, nicknamed "the Pope" for his high position in the Mafia. Greco was found responsible for scores of murders, including the 1982 assassination of General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa. Only three months before his death, Italian authorities had sent the crime-busting military man to Palermo to lead the battle against the Mafia...
...Sheed, John Updike). The illustrations are less familiar: a haunting photo of a sandlot game by Joel Meyerowitz; the charming primitive canvases of Ralph Fasanella; more sophisticated images by such artists as Robert Gwathmey and Claes Oldenburg. At the heart of them all is that enduring diamond, evoked by Crime Novelist Robert Parker in a "bright green park, bathed in light, changeless and symmetrical, contained, exact, and endlessly different...
What ever happened to the insider-trading scandal? Black Monday, that's what. Since Oct. 19, crash has replaced crime as the top story on Wall Street. Some traders have even hoped that the markets' continued fragility might persuade the Government to delay further insider-trading probes lest new revelations drive stock prices even lower. No such luck. U.S. District Attorney Rudolph Giuliani maintains that even though the spotlight has shifted elsewhere, the investigations are proceeding at full speed. Says the Manhattan-based prosecutor, who has led the crackdown on Wall Street crooks: "Whatever the state of the market...
...really getting to be scary," complains Defense Attorney Tom Nolan of Palo Alto, Calif. "We're going back to 16th and 17th century Britain, where if you committed a crime you forfeited your property." Possessions used in committing certain federal crimes, a car for example, have long been subject to seizure. Since 1970, however, Congress has also allowed confiscation of the proceeds of some crimes under half a dozen major federal crimebusting statutes. Business began booming after a 1984 law provided for seizure of crime-related assets even if they have been sold or transferred. Moreover, money from the sale...
Federal agents seize $20 million worth of Florida property, the glitziest grab yet in the campaign to confiscate the fruits of crime...