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A phrase like that would ordinarily be accompanied by a raised eyebrow and a sardonic grin. But neither Bronco Billy, the new Clint Eastwood movie, nor Carny, which introduces Robbie Robertson of the Band to the Hollywood fiction film, has so much as a single irony up its workshirt sleeve...
There are federal laws that forbid persons to detain a Government carrier pigeon or to use the likeness of Smokey Bear without permission, and bar seamen from seducing passengers on a steamship. Yet there is no national statute prohibiting bank extortion, and some espionage offenses are buried in the chapter...
But the most hair-raising detail is the revelation that there have actually been more than 50 attempts at nuclear blackmail in the U.S.; that figure is confirmed by Washington officials, although they note that all were hoaxes or extortion attempts and that no nuclear device was ever involved. The...
REMEMBER THE TRIAL of former Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner Jr. in 1973 for extortion, mail fraud, perjury, conspiracy, and bribery? Do you care about the trial of former Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner Jr.? Have you ever heard of former Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner Jr.?
Democrats, however--especially former Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley--did not like him much at all. As Hartley points out in one of his rare moments of enlightened commentary, Thompson prosecuted and achieved convictions of government officials for such commonplace trivialities as bribery, extortion--part of the politicians' "unofficial understanding...