Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another case raises questions about Petersen's performance. On March 6, at Petersen's direction, the FBI discontinued its wiretaps and electronic bugs, installed with court approval, that uncovered a Mafia scheme to harvest payoffs and kickbacks from the multimillion-dollar welfare funds of the Teamsters Union, which has become Nixon's closest political ally in organized labor. In a decision protested by department officials, Petersen ruled that there was "insufficient" cause to continue the wiretaps. His edict stopped the eavesdropping after FBI agents discovered that Los Angeles gangsters seeking to tap the union welfare fund...
...Life in the Mafia, Vincent Teresa with Tom Renner...
...Granted that TIME often displays a penchant for catchy alliteration and sometimes assumes the role of debunker. Still, isn't calling the likes of Washington, Franklin and Hamilton "the Mayflower Mafia" [March 12] a little too much...
Other divorced men sometimes have trouble getting all of their agreed-upon visitation rights, but Leonhard soon found that he was involved in an extraordinary dilemma. His ex-wife had married a convicted robber who became an informant against the Mafia, and the sudden disappearance of Leonhard's children had been masterminded with impregnable expertise by the U.S. Government...
...done something serious. You know, you expect a cop to go crooked." But is there not a little room for rejoicing that, at least in Des Moines, when a few policemen stray off the line, it is balloons and slingshots they play with instead of heroin and the Mafia...