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Died. Paul John ("Frankie") Carbo, 72, once the underworld's "commissioner of boxing"; of heart disease; in Miami Beach. Born on New York City's Lower East Side, Carbo graduated from a reformatory to become a hoodlum and reputed hit man for Murder Inc. During boxing's...
Two men who in 1974 were top executives of PCM, William F. Harding and Daniel J. Shields, were named as go-betweens in federal extortion indictments this summer against the two state senators, Joseph J.C. DiCarlo of Revere and Ronald MacKenzie of Burlington.
But the law has another shot at Ned Warren--he was indicted last week on 20 counts of fraud dealing with shady land deals. The news stories note that he is presently appealing his 12-year prison sentence stemming from extortion charges in Seattle last year. It also notes that...
-Accprding to the FBI, bombings of commercial buildings peaked at 485 incidents in 1975 and totaled "only" 173 in the first half of 1976. "Federal hostage cases," generally meaning kidnapings. bomb scares, and extortion attempts against businessmen or members of their families, reached about 40 in 1974, fell to about...
Dark suspicion of profit is an ancient turn of mind. Within Western culture there are deeply ingrained philosophical and religious misgivings about the morality of profits-most simply put, that to earn from the labors of another is an intrinsically evil form of extortion. Michel de Montaigne, the 16th century...