Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agents who burst into the Ravenite Social Club, a red brick Mob hangout in New York City's Little Italy, apparently surprised John Gotti. But true to his well-polished celebrity image, the alleged boss of the nation's largest and most vicious Mafia family quickly regained his composure. After he was pushed into a car in handcuffs, impeccably dressed as always (for this occasion, in a double-breasted pinstripe suit with a bright yellow scarf dangling rakishly from around his neck), the "Dapper Don" of tabloid fame grinned at reporters and dismissed his latest arrest with an airy...
...earning the tag "Teflon Don." Basking in the notoriety gained from his court battles, Gotti has become a familiar figure at New York City restaurants, where he has been known to leave $100 bills as tips and to blow kisses at fellow diners as he departs. Still, the suspected Mob boss, who was charged last week with murder, racketeering and tax evasion, just might have a problem this time...
Nonetheless, federal prosecutors say they have new and more damaging recordings of Gotti conversations, once again from the Ravenite club building. The snooping devices were planted in an apartment above the club that was used for Mob business. Gotti, who can afford to hire the best electronic bug- detecting experts in the city, apparently considered the apartment secure. But this time, insists James Fox, FBI head in New York, the recordings are "crystal clear . . . Gotti won't be pleased when he hears them...
...which Gotti won an acquittal in 1987. He is accused of heading the Gambino crime family and, as its leader, of violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Law. But the 11 counts in the new indictment are more serious. He is accused of taking part in four Mob killings and conspiring to arrange a fifth. His organization, according to the charges, took part in illegal gambling, extortion, loan sharking, obstruction of justice and robbery. Three of Gotti's top aides, including Thomas Gambino, son of the late Carlo, the Gambino family's original "boss of bosses," were also...
...suggests that Claus use the buzzword "scientific" to peddle his non-existent wares. "Why say fantastic when you mean scientific?" Death asks. Soon he has Santa selling stock in a "wheel mine." The plot becomes even more convoluted after this. Death and Santa exchange outfits, and a vengeful mob comes looking for the owner of the "wheel mine...