Word: multimillions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vidal, who got $200,000 for the script and the promise of 10% of the gross, says that all he wants is to get his name taken off the title. Guccione will do that-if Vidal will give up his 10% and the possibility of a multimillion-dollar windfall. Your move, Gore...
...trial that had everything -indeed, too much of everything. There was a lanky young heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune as the central figure in a murky kidnaping plot, a desperate defendant charging that the whole caper had been an elaborate fake, and there were allegations about a homosexual liaison carried out in locales ranging from the pool-house of a secluded suburban estate to gay bars in Manhattan...
Legal gambling seems to have had little impact on the multimillion-dollar illegal numbers racket, even though New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts and Rhode Island have introduced their own numbers games to compete with the illegals. The most successful of these, run by Maryland, has closely patterned its game after the illicit version. Players choose a three-digit number and can bet on it daily in multiples of 500; the payoff is 500 to 1 in cash, up to $600. It is a more honest game than the numbers rackets. Winners are always paid, which is not always the case...
While Allied was given the maximum penalty allowed under the law-an 1899 federal statute governing waste disposal in rivers and 1972 amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act-the judge suspended all but $25,000 of the multimillion dollar fines he gave two owners of Life Science, and placed them on five years' probation...
That is right. Cigarette bootlegging -"buttlegging" to police-is a multimillion-dollar business. It is a phenomenon of the past decade, when hard-pressed state governments discovered that levying stiff cigarette taxes was a politically painless way of raising money. The taxes, however, are easy to evade. Buttleggers, according to one police source, now smuggle nearly half a billion cartons a year-or one-sixth of all cigarettes smoked-into 42 high-tax states. The Council Against Cigarette Bootlegging, an organization financed by the tobacco industry, estimates that 44 million cartons will be smuggled into New York State alone this...