Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These relations were virtually broken off when a mob sacked and burned the U.S. embassy in Tripoli in December 1979, ostensibly to show support for Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini. The following spring, President Carter expelled four Libyan diplomats who were accused of threatening anti-Gaddafi students and exiles in the U.S. Then, after the embarrassing disclosure that his brother Billy had accepted $220,000 in loans from Gaddafi's government, Carter launched a State Department study of U.S. relations with Libya...
...Genovese Mafia family. Although he had virtually no expertise in the construction business, Masselli nevertheless in 1976 muscled a longtime acquaintance, Louis Nargi, out of control of a company that was helping Schiavone excavate subway tunnels in Long Island City and Manhattan. The takeover was a typical Mob operation. Nargi had run into unexpectedly difficult excavation problems, which made his subcontracting work for Schiavone more expensive than he could handle. He made the mistake of twice borrowing $50,000 from Masselli. When Nargi could not repay the loans on time, Masselli took over Nargi's trucks, loaders and other...
...Even by Mob standards, that is not petty cash. When the Bonanno family protested within Mafia circles that Masselli had violated a territorial agreement, the Genovese and Bonanno factions held a council "sitdown" to hear the dispute. Masselli argued that he had simply foreclosed on bad loans. The council absolved him of infringing on a Bonanno jurisdiction. Salvatore (Sally Blind) Frascone, a Bonanno soldier specializing in vending machines, made the fatal mistake of continuing to protest the pro-Masselli decision. Frascone was openly executed in October 1978 by Mob...
...that may show that Donovan's company had been doing business with a most unsavory gangster when it was dealing with Masselli and that Masselli associated with racketeers and murderers in the Mob. But it certainly does not demonstrate that Donovan had any personal knowledge of Masselli's criminal connections. The only mention of Donovan in the FBI eavesdropping that has been acknowledged so far by the Justice Department seems innocent enough. Masselli is heard telling his son Nat that he planned to attend some type of unexplained "affair," requiring admission tickets and an airplane trip, with "Ronnie...
...string of mummers. A young duchess, throwing her robe over the king, extinguished the sovereign, while one flaming courtier bit through the rope and dived "like a flaming comet" throught the window into a cistern in the court. The other four "whirled hither and thither through the horrified mob, struggling with one another, fighting with the flames, cursing, shrieking with pain," as Walsh describes it. Although the flames at last burnt out, none of the four maskers survived...