Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prison on a narcotics conviction. When Nargi failed to repay the money on time, Masselli, who had no construction experience, appropriated Nargi's equipment, hired his workers and muscled the owner aside. This was protested by Salvatore ("Sally Blind") Frascone, a soldier in the rival Bonanno Mob family and an in-law of Nargi's wife...
...trail of evidence on the alleged scheme had begun in 1978, when the double-dealing Orlando told his FBI contacts in New York about Masselli's Mob connections and his operations. With this information, the New York agents on Jan. 4,1979, got a court order to bug conversations and tap telephones at Masselli's meat-packing warehouse in The Bronx. Over six months this produced 892 tape recordings. The mobsters talked about Jo-Pel, the Frascone murder and Democratic officials in New York City and Albany who, they claimed, were corrupt. Donovan was mentioned in various contexts...
...came, the mob rolled up in waves and secured the old farmhouse, as well as surrounding environs. The little granddaughters with their little girls' peanut-shaped bodies gamboled half-naked on the lawn. Scatology being the stock and trade of little boys' humor, the littlest grandsons strategically maneuvered a plastic dog dropping everywhere they thought the thing's disgusting appearance might provoke a rise, giggling as they schemed. For the adults, the kitchen would be the free-fire zone; everyone would take his best shot, the vegetarians would sup alongside the carnivores...
Despite the Sandinistas' claims of open elections, a government-inspired mob two weeks ago attacked about 50 Cruz supporters at a meeting in the city of Masaya. The opposition members were assaulted by a crowd of perhaps 4,000, many wielding machetes, before police came to the rescue. Some of the attackers later said hat they had been organized by middle-level Sandinistas: block committee leaders and union organizers...
That was by no means an isolated event. Earlier that week pro-Sandinista youths known as turbas divinas (divine mobs) had harassed opposition supporters meeting in the city of León. Two days later another mob stoned Cruz's blue Ford while it was parked in front of the Recreo restaurant in the cattle-ranching town of Boaco, where the opposition leader was meeting with about 100 of his backers. Said Cruz as he surveyed his smashed windshield: "How can we go into an electoral process if this is going to happen every...