Word: extortionate
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With his plan, Moynihan seeks to curtail the government's spending of the surplus that resulted from a 1983 congressional overhaul of the Social Security system. Congress had called for accelerated tax rates to build up reserves for baby boomers, many of whom will begin to retire early next century...
The latest indictment is similar to the one on which Gotti won an acquittal in 1987. He is accused of heading the Gambino crime family and, as its leader, of violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Law. But the 11 counts in the new indictment are more serious...
As he moves among the L.S.U. students, they talk as if oppressed by blacks "who are getting everything." One says, "Yeah, think of the Nike thing" -- Operation PUSH's boycott of the sportswear company, demanding it hire / blacks at the management level. "That's just extortion."
A report that Coffey's unit recently prepared for New York City police commissioner Lee Brown describes the Genovese family as the "most stable," the "best counseled" and the most diversified business-crime group in the country. Leading the family's extortion list is the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the...
Since 1981 the family has reputedly been run by Gigante, 62, who operates out of a seedy social club in Greenwich Village. Gigante is rarely seen in public without his trademark bathrobe and slippers, which he allegedly wears to feign mental illness and avoid prosecution. Despite such behavior, federal agents...