Word: extortionate
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Daley's Chicago worked for the party faithful, for the guy who could call his "clout" to get his alley fixed or his brother a job with the Park District. But it didn't work so well for the guy who voted against the Machine and couldn't get his...
Street Pro. For example, forced to work with a female partner (nicely played by Tyne Daly, daughter of Actor James Daly), he makes the predictable grumpy noises about women's lib. Yet?surprise?he ends up not merely respecting her but more than a little in love with her. As...
At the defense table, Mel Patrick Lynch, 38, a New York fireman, and Dominic Byrne, 54, a limousine-service operator, sobbed. The jury pronounced both guilty on the charge of extortion. That verdict will almost certainly mean prison for the two Irish Americans-but shorter terms than a kidnaping conviction...
Byrne and Lynch face sentencing Jan. 6 on the extortion conviction, which they plan to appeal. Said Carl Vergari, the Westchester district attorney whose office prosecuted the kidnaping case: "I am going to recommend the maximum sentence to the judge"-15 years. Vergari does not suspect Sam Bronfman of involvement...
It does. Late one night he glimpses a man stuffing what turns out to be the body of a murdered girl into a trash can. Though the view is only in silhouette, Bone has enough of a sense of the man to gasp "It's him!" when later he...