Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police recognized the killings as the Mob's handiwork but were stumped about the motive. They kept associates of the gang under surveillance, tapped their phones and pressed informants for underworld gossip. The break finally came when an associate of the thieves, who had fled West, was picked...
...told the bureau all about Big Tuna's vengeance, saying there had actually been six slayings. The other two, which police at first did not think fit the pattern, took place in February, when Vincent Moretti, 52, a Mob fence and loan collector, and a friend, Donald Renno, 31, were found stabbed to death in a car parked behind a tavern in suburban Stickney. Almost all of Moretti's ribs had been broken. According to police, Moretti was killed because he had not told Mob bosses when the gang asked him to fence the loot...
...Callaghan that the breakaway colony is on the verge of collapse. The most optimistic forecast was that even if the voting and negotiations toward majority rule were stalled, Smith and his black colleagues could still survive attacks by the Patriotic Front until spring. The most pessimistic view: massacre and mob rule by September...
...casino in Las Vegas. Because of Shenker's links with a scandal-ridden Teamsters Union pension fund, he has been investigated off and on for more than 20 years by the Internal Revenue Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Justice Department and the Nevada gaming commission. Mob activity in Atlantic City has so far been concentrated on loan sharking and the control of service businesses such as laundries, vending machines and garbage collection...
Alice Paul, the founder of the National Woman's Party, and 5,000 fellow suffragists grimly marched down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue one day in 1913, demanding the right to vote. They were stopped in front of the National Archives Building by a mob of angry bystanders who slapped them, spit on them and burned them with lighted cigars...