Word: gangland
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...abducted from the restaurant following an after-hours robbery the weekend before last. The thieves apparently ordered the five to walk 120 yds. down an oilfield service road and lie face down side by side. Then they pumped bullets into their victims' backs and heads, as in a gangland execution. One of the victims, Opie Ann Hughes, 39, may have tried to flee; her body, clad in a Kentucky Fried Chicken uniform, was some 50 yds. away from the others...
Murder, kidnaping, hired guns, fraud, embezzlement, rake-offs, power struggles-sounds like gangland crime, Chicago-style. But according to accounts of a current union scandal, those are also the standard ingredients of the oil business, Mexican-style. The sordid revelations are the latest, and most titillating, evidence of the widespread corruption that flourished under President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado's predecessor, José López Portillo. Last week Senator Ramón Martínez Martín, a former leader of the teachers' union, called for a complete investigation of the allegations of wrongdoing...
...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...
...jail sentence by telling Teamsters or underworld secrets. Said Patrick F. Healy, executive director of the Chicago Crime Commission: "A lot of people in the criminal world will sleep better tonight knowing that Dorfman is silenced." Silence comes often around Chicago: this was the area's 1,081st gangland-style killing since the commission began keeping records...
...most ways it was a rather standard gangland slaying. The victim was driving his 1977 Lincoln Continental through The Bronx in New York City one evening last week when a passenger in the car suddenly placed a .38-cal. pistol to the back of his head and fired a single shot. The Continental swung out of control and smashed into a parked car. The assassin jumped out and climbed into a trailing red Buick LeSabre, which then sped away. But the victim happened to be Nat Masselli, 31, son of Mobster William ("Billy the Butcher") Masselli, 55. And that made...