Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wave of anti-Communist violence throughout the conservative north in the past few weeks has clearly left the Communists on the defensive. At least 50 party headquarters have been sacked, six persons killed and hundreds injured. Cunhal himself narrowly escaped injury when a mob attacked a rally at which he was speaking in Alcobaça, north of Lisbon. Three days later, when the military said it could not guarantee his safety, Cunhal canceled a scheduled rally in Oporto, the country's second largest city...
...with the huge (estimated assets: $1.5 billion to $2 billion) Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, based in Chicago. The target of many federal probes over the years, the Central States fund is characterized by a federal investigation as nothing less than a lending agency for the Mob...
...gone into Las Vegas hotels and gambling casinos, such as the Dunes and Caesars Palace. Some of it has simply vanished. The Government has brought fraud and conspiracy charges against borrowers and trustees alike. Last year prosecutors secured an indictment against Irwin Weiner, a Chicago bail bondsman with Mob connections, for allegedly defrauding the fund of $1.4 million in a scheme to buy a plastics plant in New Mexico. As the case was about to go to trial, the Government's star witness was shotgunned to death before his wife and children. The prosecution pressed ahead anyway, but Weiner...
Teamster ties with the Mafia go way back. Nicholas P. Morrissey, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Joint Council 10 in Boston, observes, "Most people who come out of prison go into this kind of work [trucking, warehousing and longshoring]." Hoffa had friends in the Mob and indeed used them in his climb from the boss of Detroit's Local 299 to his election as the union's president in 1957. But Hoffa always retained a degree of independence of the gangsters...
...boss of New Jersey's Teamsters, and Detroit's Anthony ("Tony Jack") Giacalone. Investigators believe that on the agenda was a $3 million loan from the fund that the Mafia was trying to arrange for a "recreation center" in Detroit. On some previous loans from the fund, Mob figures had got a 10% kickback from the borrowers; on the recreation-center loan, they reportedly were demanding an additional 10% from the union officials...