Word: gangland
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...pavement-pounding police reporter, first for the Chicago Tribune and then the Chicago Sun-Times. During that period he cultivated unrivaled sources on both sides of the law. Smith also became known for the unorthodox tactics he used in his dogged pursuit of the Mob, which included crashing gangland soirees. When Smith showed up uninvited at a $20,000 wedding reception for the daughter of Sam ("Mooney") Giancana, the reputed Mafia chieftain pleaded for privacy. "Look at that kid," said Giancana, pointing to his new son-in-law. "Now everybody is going to hook him up with...
...cost to the country would exceed $8 billion yearly. With the return of the addicted veterans, the cost of heroin in dollars, in violence and more subtly in broken lives and suffering, becomes even harder to reckon. Just last week in Detroit, seven addicts were massacred in a gangland-style war for control of the city's $350 million heroin trade. The dead, all shot in a drug dealer's apartment, bring to 50 the number of heroin-related murders in the city this year. The specter of highly weapons-trained, addicted combat veterans joining the deadly struggle...
...Detroit police, the deaths are variations on a theme. Some of the victims have been executed, gangland style, shot either in the head or the back. Some have been kidnapped, tortured and beaten to death. Others died suffocated with pillows or with plastic bags over their heads. All had one thing in common: an affiliation with heroin...
...Gangland Murders...
Mahoney, who spoke at length in opposition to Vellucci's bill, said that "giving bounties to people is an encouragement to the irresponsible elements of this community. We may see Cambridge become another Boston insofaras the incidence of gangland murders is concerned...