Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti--After two nights of wild rejoicing and mob retaliation against the hated secret police of the ousted Duvalier regime, life began returning to normal yesterday in this slum-ridden city of one million people...
...last week in Kansas City. The five were charged with helping to skim some $2 million from the Stardust and Fremont casinos. Glick, who bought the casinos in 1974 with $87 million in loans from the Teamsters' Central States pension fund, gave the court vivid details of how the Mob muscled in on his operation...
After deliberating for 30 hours, the jury last week convicted the five defendants: Joseph J. Aiuppa, 78, the Chicago Mafia boss; John Cerone, 71, Joseph Lombardo, 57, and Angelo LaPietra, 65, all of Chicago; and Cleveland Mob Leader Milton J. Rockman, 71. Each could be sentenced to 40 years in jail. Chicago FBI Chief Edward Hegarty called the convictions of the Midwest's top mobsters, along with earlier guilty pleas of Mob leaders in Kansas City, "the most significant prosecution of organized-crime figures in the history of the U.S." An even bigger Mafia trial is to start next March...
...Paul Castellano, head of the Gambino crime family and reputed kingpin of organized crime in America, wanted it that way: he was determined to change the image of the Mafia from violent crime syndicate to respectable family business. "We are in a new era," he once told his fellow mob chiefs. "Legitimacy, not muscle, is what we should project...
...apparently wanted Gotti to succeed him, but Castellano seemed to have been grooming Belotti for the No. 2 job. Though the intemperate Gotti is unlikely to rise to the top of the Mafia's largest family, the killings nevertheless may signal the ascent of a hungrier younger generation of mob leaders. The head may be dead, but the body lives...