Word: illicited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Levine case was the largest insider-trading complaint ever filed by the SEC, and it spurred anxiety and soul-searching in Wall Street boardrooms. Levine had allegedly amassed a total of $12.6 million in illicit profits while working for three investment firms--Drexel Burnham Lambert, Lehman Bros. and Smith Barney--during the past 5 1/2 years. Insider-trading cases come and go like stock-market rallies, but never has such a high-level executive been accused of using privileged information for so much personal gain over so long a period of time. Wall Streeters think that Levine must have been...
...have a whole lot to work with in terms of character development. In the role of a co-detective trying to help Billy solve the mystery of his father's death, she is about as believable as one of Charlie's Angels. What kind of investigator discusses top-secret, illicit information over a phone from her desk at the Police Station...
...RICO is its special forfeiture procedure, a relative rarity in American law. These provisions allow authorities to confiscate the semilegitimate business fronts, the corrupt construction companies and the phony finance operations through which much Mob wealth is funneled. In the past, even when an underworld chief was imprisoned, the illicit operations remained intact. With RICO, prosecutors can go after the crime empires themselves. In the Angiulo case, for example, the feds are pursuing $4 million in Mob assets, including two apartment buildings, a restaurant and some prime real estate near the Boston Garden...
...begin to succeed where the legal deterrent has failed. Says Walsh of the National Institute on Drug Abuse: "We feel that if Big Business continues as it has in the last year to develop more and more stringent kinds of policies, it eventually will reduce the demand for illicit substances. It may be very effective in changing the way people view drug taking in this country...
...cocaine entering the U.S. Mexico is also grabbing larger shares of the U.S. markets for heroin and marijuana. Partly because of Mexico's economic woes, struggling farmers have boosted their crops of opium poppies and marijuana plants. U.S. consumer demand for their output has increased as well. Mexico's illicit heroin- refining labs have upgraded their equipment so that their product, previously a crude substance dubbed "Mexican brown," now competes with purer varieties from Southeast Asia. At the same time, Mexico's marijuana has made a comeback with bargain-minded smokers; it costs only $100 or less an ounce...