Word: figueira
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the district attorney, who finally embarrassed him by engineering a raid of New Bedford gambling joints by a small army of 121 state cops. Even then, Mayor Peirce might have got by if he had not turned, in rough and highhanded fashion, upon a police lieutenant named Alfred Figueira, who was the head of his vice squad and his chief partner in crime...
Gloomily Exiled. Figueira, a gambler named William Angell, and Bookmakers John and Francis Sullivan sang to a grand jury in return for a promise of leniency from the D.A. Angell told how the mayor, with Figueira's connivance, had raided his competitors, had hushed up a robbery at his dice joint. Angell told of paying off in $500 chunks. Figueira testified that Peirce had shut down bookies who did not deal with the Sullivans, while the Sullivans flourished and prospered...
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