Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meaning of the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The U.S. Attorney says that investigators have acquired 4,000 hours of secretly taped conversations among the mobsters, and he promises to produce 30 or more witnesses against them. The 41-page indictment cites 15 racketeering counts, including five Mob murders, narcotics trafficking, loan-sharking, and alleged control of New York's concrete industry...
...farms." Snapped Cohn: "That's not true. Mr. Salerno suffers from hypertension. He had three strokes. He walks with a cane. He has heart trouble." Before they grapple with more serious matters, lawyers on both sides apparently will have to answer a preliminary question: "How sick is the Mob...
Ferriola, who apparently aspired to rule the Chicago empire, carried some complaints to his aging superiors. A Mob source told an investigator that Ferriola said, "Things are coming apart in Chicago and something has to be done about it." Some of the syndicate's bookies were holding back too much of the profits. One such deadbeat, Ferriola declared, was Leonard Yaras, the North Side betting boss. "Yaras has to go," Ferriola said. "He's putting our money in his pocket." Another sports bookie, Hal Smith, was said not to be giving the Mob any cut at all. According...
Ferriola's bosses were apparently sympathetic. On Jan. 10 Yaras was sitting in his car near Rogers Park in Chicago, where he normally collected the Mob's cut from bookies, when two gunmen opened fire, killing him. On Feb. 10 Smith's body was found in the trunk of his car in suburban Arlington Heights, Ill. He had been brutally beaten, and his throat was cut. On Feb. 13 English finished a roast pig dinner at Horwath's restaurant in Elmwood Park, Ill., trading small talk for more than two hours with, among others, two Cook County judges...
More such Mob executions are expected elsewhere. "With so many of them facing heavy indictments," says one investigator, "they can't run the risk of anybody talking. So they've been buying insurance." Said another: "There are a lot of scared hoods out in the street wondering if they are next...