Word: mobbing
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...shouldered bantam-cock strut. Public Enemy, White Heat and his other classic gangster movies traded on what he fondly called "my gutter quality." But in more than 60 films, the last of them a made-for-TV movie that aired in March 1984, Cagney stood a head above any mob of imitators. Last week he lammed out for good, dying at 86 on his upstate New York farm...
...tough piece of legislation. With some hyperbole, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division, Stephen Trott, calls it "the thermonuclear device of criminal statutes." More than 15 years after it was adopted by Congress, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act has become the most potent Mob-busting tool in the nation, blasting underworld operations from New York to California...
...city's predominant underworld dynasty, met regularly to plan the fortunes of an evil empire fed by murder, gambling and loan sharking. Often their plotting turned to what they considered a vexing subject: how to avoid the reach of a unique federal law called RICO, which not only targets Mob leaders but can also dismantle their whole illegal enterprise. "Remember that word 'enterprise,' " Family Boss Gennaro Angiulo cautioned his brothers at one conclave. "And it isn't the aircraft carrier either...
...increasingly prized aspect of RICO is its special forfeiture procedure, a relative rarity in American law. These provisions allow authorities to confiscate the semilegitimate business fronts, the corrupt construction companies and the phony finance operations through which much Mob wealth is funneled. In the past, even when an underworld chief was imprisoned, the illicit operations remained intact. With RICO, prosecutors can go after the crime empires themselves. In the Angiulo case, for example, the feds are pursuing $4 million in Mob assets, including two apartment buildings, a restaurant and some prime real estate near the Boston Garden...
Critics of RICO in the business community insist that Congress never intended the law to be used against legitimate enterprises. Yet a recent 15:35American Bar Association study found that only 9% of the civil RICO suits it sampled had allegations of typical Mob crimes, like arson, bribery or extortion. Most of the rest simply alleged securities or commercial frauds. Often even garden-variety contract disputes have RICO charges thrown...