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...takes to run for President now." Bradley sometimes seems nostalgic for a politics that never was. American elections have always been pretty rough. The Thomas Jefferson-Aaron Burr battle of 1800 was a major slugfest, and during the 1956 Democratic primaries, Estes Kefauver accused the sainted Stevenson of Mob ties and racism. (Kefauver lost.) As a student of history, Bradley knows all that, but he's gambling that voters actually mean it this time when they say they're sick of negative campaigns. So far, the Republicans appear to be hearing the same message. Gore is the only candidate...
...Teamsters are about to file a civil suit under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act - a law often used in the past by the government to combat mob influence in labor. One target of the suit: Teamster ex-president Ron Carey, ejected from the union in 1997 after a finding that his 1996 run for the top job was tainted by campaign-finance abuses...
...attack as a murder," a police spokesman said. "We believe it was motivated by Mr. Safra's powerful position in the banking world." Last year Safra's bank had filed reports tipping off regulators to an international Russian money-laundering scandal that resulted in the freezing of Russian mob-related accounts and one of the largest banking investigations in history...
...that with I-bankers?). Later I realized the truth: I was afraid. I was afraid of the enraged horde of budding consultants that would inevitably knock down my door, shouting invectives and threatening to stab me with their PalmPilot Styluses. I was afraid that a mob of investment bankers would conspire to give me brain cancer by surrounding me and calling each other with their cell phones. The truth of the matter was that I didn't want to deal with anyone who might be seriously offended by jokes at their expense. The truth of the matter was I didn...
...only thing he had to fear was fear itself. Billionaire financier Edmond J. Safra died because he was poisoned by the same conspiracy theories that consumed the media in the days following his death. The most commonly discussed scenario in Safra's fiery death had the Russian mob settling a vendetta against the banker for blowing the whistle on money laundering schemes. It turns out this whodunit had a more ordinary culprit: the nurse...