Word: mafiosi
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...balmy night last July, a statuesque Sicilian brunette, Graziella Quartuccio, 43, was snatched away in her nightgown from her Monreale home near Palermo by a machine-gun-toting gang of ski-masked Mafiosi. A kidnaping is no surprise in Italy. It has become such a way of life since 1970 that police now freeze the assets of the victim's family in an effort to prevent payoffs. Million-dollar ransoms are routine. But this case rocked Palermo; it is not honorable to involve women in such matters, and the victim's husband, Contractor Giuseppe Quartuccio, 66, was known...
They finally got me... John Adamson, find him"−had resulted in the arrest of Adamson. More significantly, they had ensured the first major statewide investigation of the corruption that has enriched home-grown and imported conmen, including Mafiosi, while bilking land buyers of more than $500 million since the mid-1960s...
...SAME time The Moneychangers is meant to be thoroughly realistic. Hailey writes as if he knows a great deal about the way banks work, how mafiosi behave, and what life is like in the slums ("with survival a daily challenge and with crime--petty and otherwise--a surrounding norm"), among other things. Whole scenes and chunks of dialogue have obviously been put in solely because Hailey, the restless chronicler, wanted to illuminate some little-known aspect of banking. His approach is microcosmic--dealing with banks by writing about one bank, with bankers by creating two of them--but that seems...
Like fishermen who come back emptyhanded, prosecutors and police endlessly complain about the ones who got away. Especially galling are those who escape because of legal rules: drug pushers caught dirty but without the proper search warrant, Mafiosi discovered through an illegal wiretap, thugs with guns whose car was stopped by cops acting without probable cause. In such cases, the catchall-or lose-all-complication is the exclusionary rule, which provides that evidence seized illegally may not be used in court...
...bizarre hunt began with a tip from an unnamed informer who said a group of Mafiosi wanted Hoffa's body found. The reasoning was odd. The Mafiosi were said to feel they were unfairly getting too much heat from investigators working on the case. If the body was produced, the mobsters believed, their innocence could somehow be proved. No less curious was the fact that the informant went not to the FBI or Michigan state police but to the staff of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, headed by Democratic Senator Henry Jackson...