Word: extortionate
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When Chicago police arrested Joey Glimco on his first murder charge, the booking officer gave up counting Joey's previous arrests, just listed them as "innumerable."' Since that day in 1928, Tough Guy Glimco (alias Joseph Glinico, Joseph Glielmi. etc., etc.) has added a lot more arrests to...
New York. From his Midwest power base, Hoffa pushed into New York in the mid-1950s with the help of Extortionist John Dioguardi, alias Johnny Dio, boss of a shakedown ring thinly disguised as a labor union. Dio & Co. brought into the labor rackets 40 toughs with a total of...
Minneapolis. Fleeing an investigation of an attempted murder in Miami, Gerald Connelly found a haven as head of Teamster Local 548 in Minneapolis. When he got into trouble with the law there on charges of extortion and dynamiting, Teamster organizations under Hoffa's control paid out several thousand dollars...
In the three weeks since he took over as Singapore's first Prime Minister after 140 years of British colonial rule, slim Lee Kuan Yew has not yet justified all the fears of what his leftish People's Action Party might do to capitalism. But as a determined...
¶ Two off-duty cops were arrested for extortion, accused of shaking down a sailor they saw taking a girl into a hotel.