Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Giuliani, who was introduced by Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz as "one of the great prosecutors of all time," has served as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York since 1983. He has successfully prosecuted the heads of the New York Mafia as well as prominent insider traders and politicians...
Previous prosecutors merely threw Mafia bosses in jail, but in recent years the government has been attempting to break the corporate structure of organized crime by confiscating criminal money and property, Giuliani said...
Extortion, protection rackets and tax fraud are the stuff of daily life. There are threats and occasionally even executions. It sounds like Al Capone's Chicago or Mafia-dominated Sicily in the days of gangland wars. But instead, all those evils are flourishing in today's Northern Ireland in neighborhoods controlled by extremists. Says Brian Feeney, a Belfast city councilor: "This is real godfather stuff. Everybody pays. If you don't, they threaten to harm your family or workers...
...have discovered that the same terrorist gangs that turned Belfast into a sectarian battleground have siphoned off millions of dollars from the reconstruction to finance their continuing war. As money for new construction pours into Belfast, paramilitary forces on both sides demand a cut of the profits. This Ulster Mafia exacts its levies from local businesses, and if people do not pay up, a bomb or a shot in the night may follow...
...studio apartment is hidden away amid the rambling old Mafia hotels and quiet leafy parks of Vedado, Havana's modern midtown district. Like many a Cuban home, it has a dusty attic quality, the poignancy of a well-cared-for poverty. The apartment's contents are fairly typical. A high shelf has been turned into a home-made altar, crowded with Catholic icons. Below is a shelf stuffed with the works of Spinoza, Graham Greene, Raymond Chandler. Between the two is a huge black-and-white TV set on which, boasts its owner, he can sometimes catch programs from...