Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Time was when it was difficult not to mention the Teamsters Union Central States Pension Fund and federal organized-crime investigations in the same breath. In one case after another, the feds found, the fund served as a cash cow for the Mafia, especially by investing in Mob-controlled Nevada casinos whose profits could easily be skimmed. By 1976 Central States, the largest multiemployer pension fund in the U.S., had nearly $250 million tied up in Nevada gambling operations...
...quickly the joyful atmosphere turned ugly as roving mobs tracked down Duvalier's henchmen. When one militiaman was spotted, the frenzied crowd tore off his uniform. Protesters throughout the capital called for "death to the Tonton Macoutes," the secret police that had protected the Duvalier family for 28 years. Terrified by the mob's fury, they tried to hide inside their barracks. A reporter claimed to have seen one Tonton Macoute, cornered by an angry crowd, shoot himself in the head. At week's end as many as 75 people reportedly had been killed...
...wasn't like a mob of 12 sledgehammer-swinging students. It was well organized and cooperative," says senior Robert W. Flanagan, a member of the DCBGBWC. "I was very serious about what I was doing. I knew the dangers of letting the situation carry me away." Two women were spending the night in one of the shanties, Flanagan says, but "their safety came first...
...with barricades and burning tires. When the local army headquarters was overrun by anti-Duvalier marchers, agents of the Tonton Macoute tried to open fire, but they were disarmed by an army tactical battalion. Terrified, the agents ripped off their trademark blue denim uniforms and tried to escape the mob's wrath. More crowds demanded that the military overthrow the dictatorship, and rumors started that Baby Doc, his wife and an entourage of 100 had already fled to France...
According to Light, he was one of 20 to 30 attorneys formally servicing the mob in New York City, and he claimed that other such lawyers operate in more than half a dozen major American cities. He contended that the Mafia has infiltrated "legitimate businesses" in New York, including a fuel-oil distributor and a school-bus company that has obtained a lucrative contract from the city's public schools...