Word: ganglander
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...lately things had begun to go sour. The Flamingo lost money. From New York headquarters, the boys arrived to talk to Bugsy. A couple of hoods were cut down in the old '20s gangland style. Competition was increasing. The underworld was migrating eagerly into Southern California...
...violin, now just stands in front of the band. Brother Carmen, 42, plays sax, and Brother Lebert, 41, the trumpet. Their first dates were at Lake Erie summer resorts. Later, in Chicago, the jazz mecca of the bootleg era, the Royal Canadians were interrupted one night by a gangland machinegun battle. Lombardo reassured radio listeners: "That . . . was our drummer...
When he was indicted for murder, his frantic family hired a lawyer whose name, they had seen in newspaper crime stories, a stocky, drunken gangland attorney named William W. O'Brien. The state's whole case rested on Vera Walush's testimony but O'Brien, unsteady with drink, did not question it. Joe pleaded for a chance to go on the stand himself. O'Brien waved him off. The jury's verdict: guilty -99 years in the penitentiary...
Called "Flor de la Maffia" (Flower of the Black Hand), Agata came from a distinguished line of scoundrels. Father Juan Galiffi left Italy just ahead of the cops, murdered his way to control of gangland in Rosario, Argentina's second city. He prospered, sent his daughter to a fashionable school in Buenos Aires, planned a socialite wedding...
These killings were all in the accepted gangland tradition: no clues, no witnesses; even the families of the murdered men failed to press police for a solution. There were others. Month ago Lake Michigan's icy waters gave up a bloated, battered body. The man had been shot, beaten and tortured; his fingernails had been pried away. His skin had been stained dark, his hair dyed, his fingertips sandpapered smooth. The elaborate efforts to hide his identity were successful: the corpse is still nameless and unclaimed...