Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only crime in this style of intellectual prostitution is getting your feet tangled. Stockman's confessions about supply-side economics in the famous Atlantic article, "The Education of David Stockman" was perhaps the best example. At that time, he was lucky. Stockman, despite his indiscretions, knew too much to be fired. Later, Stockman was smart. He jumped into the investment banking boat before the mess the Republican Administration had made of the economy became obvious...
...ghettos, the economics of crack has created a lucrative cottage industry. Organized crime has not yet taken over the trade, police believe. Instead, a small-time dealer in Los Angeles can buy an ounce of cocaine for $1,000 to $1,500. Since each ounce contains 28 grams and each gram can produce up to six rocks that he can sell for as much as $25 each, the dealer can realize a profit of around...
...vote and lie to their wives about where they were all weekend." He is almost too quick, too facile, for his own good. Last year when he got into what reporters called an argument but he preferred to term a Socratic dialogue on the subject of organized crime, Cuomo said, "You're telling me that Mafia is an organization, and I'm telling you that's a lot of baloney." When he read a newspaper column that suggested an Italian could not be elected President, he told a reporter, "If anything could make me change my mind about running...
...bring Presser up to 51 years, imprisonment, he dismissed that possibility. "For five years the Federal Government has attempted to build a case against me but has succeeded in building nothing more than a house of cards," he said. Agent Friedrick had been supervisor of the FBI's organized-crime strike force in Cleveland. His statements in part led the Justice Department to suspend an attempt to indict Presser last summer and stirred speculation about interference from the White House. (Presser has been one of Ronald Reagan's few labor supporters.) Cases were dropped against two men who had earlier...
...allegations against him. Retired Army Colonel Samuel Jeremie, 52, who was once a close aide to former President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, had been charged with two counts of murder, each punishable by ten years in prison. He was also accused of military misconduct, a crime under Haitian law that could lead to an additional 15-year sentence...