Word: kingpins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barry "the Blade" Moldanno (Anthony La Paglia), the feared mobster whose knife inspires Jerome Clifford to commit suicide before Barry can kill him is, as his Mafia-kingpin uncle says, "stupid." Reducing criminal intrigue to a new level of sleaze and triteness, Moldanno adds almost nothing to a plot which pertains to him only in the murder he committed before the film begins...
...eight members of the Search Block broke into a remote farmhouse two hours outside Medellin. "We were sure we had him surrounded," a police official told the press. But the kingpin melted away at the last minute. His trackers were so close that Escobar was forced to leave behind two briefcases filled with soap, T shirts, blue jeans and dark glasses. There were also letters from his nine-year-old daughter Manuela -- "Dear Papa, I miss you a lot and wish I could see you" -- and his son Juan Pablo, 16. And there was a letter in Escobar's handwriting...
Billionaire cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar was killed in a rooftop shoot-out with soldiers and police in Medellin, Colombia. Police found his hideout by tracing a phone call he made to his wife and two children the day after his birthday. The death of Escobar is not expected to reduce the flow of cocaine to the U.S., since his influence on the drug trade significantly diminished during his 16 months as a fugitive...
...wish to try their luck abroad are encouraged by the snakeheads -- who then link them with underground networks. Most of the arrangements are done by international crime syndicates, which cut deals with desperate families, then draw up the escape plan, procure the forged documents and furnish the transportation. One kingpin of the racket is Big Boss Ma (not his real name), a Thai gangster of Chinese descent who funnels mainland Chinese through Bangkok. Seated in the lotus position on a teak sofa at home in Mae Sai, a northern Thai town, Big Boss exudes confidence and affluence. His gold front...
...suddenly, an enormous amount is riding on it. NBC, the onetime kingpin of prime time, has seen its fortunes turn sour almost overnight. Its biggest hit of the '80s, The Cosby Show, took early retirement last spring, while several other veterans -- The Golden Girls, Matlock and In the Heat of the Night -- were given their unconditional release. (All were later picked up by rivals.) The network's last remaining Top 10 hit, Cheers, will call it quits at the end of this season; highly regarded younger shows like Seinfeld have not lived up to ratings expectations; and with the loss...