Word: manhattanization
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...feds do, though. They know Massino's influence is as big as his girth. For five years, they have painstakingly constructed a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) case against Massino. A windowless room in the FBI's lower-Manhattan office block is filled to the ceiling with dusty files. Here, agents from the Bonanno squad (known in the gumshoe world as C-10) pore over surveillance photos, audio recordings and bank records detailing Massino's alleged three-decade career in crime...
From the gaudy days of Prohibition to today, the Mafia has misplaced more than its traditions. It has lost a lot of its power. Meanwhile, the Mafia-mauling feds have become stars. Rudy Giuliani, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney whose anti-Mob crusade unmade a lot of made men, went on to two terms as New York City mayor. As for Pistone, his next project has sent old fed-heads shaking. Called The Good Guys, it's a novel about an FBI agent and a mafioso, both looking for the same man. Pistone's co-author: Bill Bonanno, onetime boss...
...surface, this probably isn’t all that important to you—the Ivy League sports fan—but using my trusty “transitive property” I can make an interesting observation. The Gators lost to Manhattan yesterday in the traditionally treacherous 5/12 matchup. (In this sentence, “lost to” is merely a euphemism for “got spanked and made to start crying like a little girl...
...Jaspers lost to Penn on a “neutral court.” The game itself was played in Madison Square Garden, which last I checked was in Manhattan, so the neutrality of the court could and should be brought into question. Regardless, by the transitive property, that means that the Quakers beat Florida...
Will it be No. 12 Manhattan over No. 5 Florida? Can No. 12 Murray St. overcome the arrest of two players for marijuana possession to beat No. 5 Illinois? What about No. 10 Dayton over No. 7 DePaul? No. 7 Xavier against No. 10 Louisville...