Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hyman Bookbinder, a longtime leader of the American Jewish Committee, declared, "Many of us feel that what Pollard did was a mistake, wrong, a crime, a sin . . . and what the Israeli officials did was wrong to initiate and even dumber to continue." Even normally pro-Israel U.S. legislators were embarrassed by Pollard's protestations that he had a "moral obligation" to spy for Israel. Such statements, said Florida Democratic Congressman Lawrence Smith, "are deeply distressing to American Jews, particularly those in the Government or close to it." On the other hand, Smith added, "much of the furor comes from circles...
...Government, it was a disappointing setback. Gotti's acquittal marked federal prosecutors' first defeat in a vigorous war against the Mob that has put many organized-crime kingpins behind bars for long prison terms. Two weeks ago, in the "pizza connection" case, 17 mobsters were convicted of selling tons of heroin and cocaine through pizza parlors in the Northeast and Midwest. In December, eight of New York's powerful crime bosses were convicted of running a vast network of criminal activities. Last October, Philip Rastelli, head of the Bonanno family, and eight co-defendants were found guilty of racketeering. Last...
Gotti, 46, was accused of seven racketeering acts, among them the 1973 barroom murder of James McBratney, who, prosecutors said, was suspected of killing a nephew of the late Carlo Gambino, then head of the Gambino crime family. Gotti helped do away with McBratney, prosecutors claimed, to gain favor within the family...
Perhaps not. Andrew Maloney, U.S. Attorney for the eastern district of New York, says he will continue to go after people in organized crime -- and some of them may be the defendants who were acquitted last week...
...years since Mikhail Gorbachev cracked down on alcohol consumption in the Soviet Union, many liquor outlets have closed, and legal production of vodka has been scaled back 30%. The Soviet leader claims that as a result crime is down significantly...