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Despite the publicity, Cianci won reelection that year. Last year, running as a political independent, he squeaked through to win his third term. But new trouble has surfaced. Last week a grand jury issued a six-count indictment of the mayor, charging him with kidnaping, assault with a deadly weapon...
Damaging evidence of corruption in the mayor's powerful political machine followed. In recent months a widening net of federal probes has led to the conviction or indictment of seven White aides on charges of fraud and extortion. Although White has not been accused of any wrongdoing, the scandal...
> Al Capone, the Caesar of the Chicago gangland, was never convicted of murder, robbery, kidnaping, extortion or even bootlegging. But Treasury agents nailed him for evading payment of $1.2 million in taxes from 1924 to 1929, and the mobster was sentenced to eleven years in federal prison in Atlanta.
George Collatos, a city employee who played a major role in the fundraising, is now in jail on extortion charges and is one of four city officials convicted in the past year of either income tax evasion, bribery or extortion.
Kodak Spokesman Timothy Elliott said the matter was of "serious concern" to the company. He insisted that Kodak would hire from its pool of 100,000 job applicants on merit alone. If there are arrests, they would come under the Hobbs Act, which prohibits extortion in any business engaged in...