Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impoverished residents. A few weeks ago, the Taliban publicly burned two tons of opium, enough to produce 400 lbs. of heroin, which is roughly the amount a European country would confiscate in a year. And you should know: in a previous job Arlacchi was the man who crippled the Mafia in Italy...
...months ago, a letter hand printed in German was sent to Meili, care of Senator Alfonse D'Amato, the New York Republican who sponsored his residency. "Meili, you little s.o.b. supported by Jews," the message read. "We will hunt you down in your new home. Even the American Jew-Mafia will not be able to protect you." Since a Swiss newspaper printed Meili's e-mail address, threats have ensued. And after Edward Fagan, Meili's attorney, filed suit in the U.S. against U.B.S., seeking $60 million in compensatory damages for slander and retaliatory firing and up to $2.5 billion...
JANE AUSTEN'S MAFIA! (July 24). This synoptic Mafia spoof, sort of a Godfellas, is from Jim Abrahams of the Naked Gun series. The trailer, which has 17 big laughs (out of a possible 22), tells us to "See it early. Avoid the Mob." We'll be there...
...pushing his wild-eyed theories, even after they have been shown to be fabrications. In his 1995 book, Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King, Pepper claimed that a team of U.S. Army snipers was standing by in Memphis to shoot King if a Mafia hit man hired by the government had missed. Pepper wrote that army captain Billy Eidson, purported commander of the sniper team, could not be questioned because he had been murdered, presumably to assure his silence. Trouble is, Eidson is very much alive; he denies any involvement in King's murder...
Every bar and club (and most businesses) in Moscow have mafia and security connections called a "krysha," or "roof." The high-level people, usually well established in the Russian Mafia world, are paid to look out for the establishment's interests. In a city where media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky runs his business out of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's office, mafiosi sit in the Duma--Russia's national legislature--and the sale of pirated videos is a quasi-legitimate business, the line between legal and illegal procedure is hopelessly fuzzy...