Word: pizzas
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...normal commerce, even in the modern service economy (of which the contract drawn between William Stern and Mary Beth Whitehead for her to bear his baby may stand as the oddest example). Problems of conscience do not crop up when you pay someone to deliver your paper or your pizza, or to answer your phone. Something is sought, someone is compensated, and if the bargain is just, so seem the ethics...
...Government, it was a disappointing setback. Gotti's acquittal marked federal prosecutors' first defeat in a vigorous war against the Mob that has put many organized-crime kingpins behind bars for long prison terms. Two weeks ago, in the "pizza connection" case, 17 mobsters were convicted of selling tons of heroin and cocaine through pizza parlors in the Northeast and Midwest. In December, eight of New York's powerful crime bosses were convicted of running a vast network of criminal activities. Last October, Philip Rastelli, head of the Bonanno family, and eight co-defendants were found guilty of racketeering. Last...
While they waited, the early birds busied themselves by reading or listening to portable radios or cassette players. Some split shifts in line with friends, while others had pizza and Chinese food delivered to them...
...trial in the notorious "pizza connection" case ended last week after nearly 17 months, but the eleven-member jury needed only six days to deliver its verdict. A former Sicilian Mafia chief and 16 other men, said the exhausted jurors in New York City last week, were guilty of conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine through a network of pizza parlors...
What emerged was a complicated tale of cooperation between the Sicilian Mafia and its American counterpart, the Cosa Nostra. Tons of morphine base were smuggled from Turkey to Sicily, processed into 1,650 lbs. of heroin, then sneaked through airports and distributed by pizza parlors in the Northeast and Midwest. More than $40 million in profits went back to Sicily in a laundering scheme involving banks in New York, Switzerland, Bermuda and the Bahamas...