Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Tompkins, the police and gangsters in New York City often "look the same, talk the same and come from the same backgrounds." At one lunch with a detective, Tompkins saw his source exchanging wary greetings ("How's the wife?") with some men at a nearby table. They...
Richard Nixon's public ordeal on Watergate may finally be over. Certainly the nation has had enough. As he faced a televised grilling last week on the scandal that destroyed his presidency, the disgraced ex-President forced viewers to suffer through most of the same old distortions and deceptions...
Fear has always been a palpable part of life at the top in the Mafia, an almost feudal society in which men rise by murder and treachery and can never feel secure. But these are days of even greater tension than usual. The crime organization is going through one of...
Then why does the Mafia attract so much attention? Many Italian Americans complain that the notoriety is excessive, and damaging to millions of law-abiding citizens; to assuage their sensibilities, the Justice Department has stopped referring to the Mafia by name. No matter what the organization is called, it dominates...
Despite the bloodletting in Chicago, the Outfit has been rapidly expanding its Western operations. Although freelance Mafiosi and other big-time criminals have operated in California since the heyday of Bugsy Siegel in the 1940s, the only important criminal clan was Jack Dragna's family in Los Angeles. When Dragna...