Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cocaine, and the drive to legalize gambling ?create an ever-increasing appetite for organized crime's services. On almost any given day, newspaper headlines attest graphically to the size and variety of that appetite. Last week, for example, two organized crime figures and seven associates were indicted in Detroit on charges of luring rich businessmen to sex and gambling parties and then extorting large sums of money from them ?in one case, more than $200,000. In Manhattan that same night, police raided a luxurious casino near Rockefeller Center, equipped with crystal chandeliers, thick red carpets...
Nevada authorities are investigating Spilotro for his alleged involvement in skimming* millions from the slot machines of the Stardust casino. FBI agents meanwhile are investigating Detroit gangsters who, working through fronts...
...Detroit News Reporter Shelley Eichenhorn interviewed for TIME the wives of three middle-to high-level Mafiosi. Her report...
...They're not vulgar or bold-acting," says one Grosse Pointer. "They are mother and grandmother types-and good ones. Take Mrs. Anthony Giacalone [wife of a top Mafia figure in Detroit's ruling family], she's a quiet, lovely lady. Why, she even contributed $20 to the March of Dimes...
...parts of the nation, the market from Brentwood, Calif., to Boston has been rising for months. Builders, mortgage lenders and real estate agents are scrambling to keep up with demand. Says Jerald Ruben, president of General Realty Corp., one of the largest new-home real estate agencies in the Detroit area: "It's the most fantastic thing I've seen in 25 years." Reports Connecticut Realtor Phyllis McGovern: "The momentum has been building for over a year, but I've never seen anything like the last three months...