Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clark was impressed with the findings of an investigation headed by Lawyer Daniel Walker, then the Mafia-fighting president of Chicago's crime commission. The Walker Report agreed that some demonstrators had provoked the Chicago police. However, its conclusion was that "the vast majority of the demonstrators were intent on expressing their dissent by peaceful means," and that the eruption had in effect been a "police riot." Clark ordered a federal grand jury in Chicago to begin investigating possible federal law violations by overreacting policemen...
Ellenburg, 50, had no sooner accepted the job than it was revealed that he allegedly had been on the Mafia payroll until 1963. Last week, after only ten days in office, the new police chief resigned. "I categorically deny the accusations," he said. In accepting the resignation, Stokes said: "To the best of my knowledge, Mr. Ellenburg is the victim of unproven accusations...
Received Money. What seems incredible about the Ellenburg affair is that Stokes had not heard about the accusations earlier. For the past two months, ex-Mafia Attorney Lawrence A. Burns has been talking with Michigan authorities and newsmen about his dealings with gangsters and cops in Detroit. He claimed that Ellenburg had been receiving bribes for years from mobsters to protect the numbers racket and from Burns himself to protect an abortion clinic. Burns also fingered Thomas Cochill, another former Detroit lawman whom Ellenburg had brought to Cleveland as his personal aide...
...book is a novel about the Mafia, and, when Coop shoppers asked Breslin discreet questions about that organization, he couldn't see what all the fuss was about. "Hell, when it comes to larceny, I'm betting on the businessman," he said. "The Mafia-they're tough guys-but they're only trying to steal as much as the Protestant bankers do. And they don't succeed. In their wildest dreams, they didn't think of stealing as much as Wolfson could...
...went right to the bar and made a place for himself. A late-afternoon talk show blared from the TV set high above the drinkers. Soon the Whitney's crowd began to notice that Breslin was in their midst. A man wearing an MBTA uniform told him that the Mafia was not a joke, Breslin scowled. Another man asked him if he thought football was crooked. "I hope so," he answered. "Who wants everything a hundred per cent?" Then Breslin turned away from his fans for good and drank the first of many beers...