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...racketeers, which carries a 20-year maximum sentence. Big Jim turned the statute into a particularly potent law-enforcement weapon in a major 1973 case in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Previously, prosecutors had expended considerable effort proving, say, that a policeman who had extorted payments from a tavern owner had used fear of violence or harassment to force his victim to pay. The appeals court bought Thompson's argument that the law did not deal only with fear of physical harm, but could be interpreted as covering threatened economic damage as well. Another decision held that merely...
Mosiello is serving a mandatory life sentence for the felony murder of a Weehawken waterfront tavern owner whom police found gagged, trussed and stuffed in the trunk of a '69 Cadillac. "It was obviously a professional job, a contract hit," claims the soft-spoken Mosiello, who had no previous arrests. "I did not do it." But the state said he did, a jury agreed, and Mosiello, the owner of a successful racing-engine design shop, had to begin a new career behind a 20-ft. wall in Trenton...
...minutes later, a second bomb blast transformed the nearby Tavern in the Town into an even grislier scene. The shock waves of the explosion rebounded between the walls of the underground pub, turning flying debris into deadly missiles. Water poured onto the floor and the ceiling fell, as frantic survivors stumbled toward the exit over the bodies of the dead and maimed. Susan Edkin, 18, and her fiance were celebrating their engagement. "People were shouting and screaming," she said later. "I remember there was a man lying on the floor who couldn't see because his eyes had gone...
...idyllic time before mass communications and technology. Vol taire and Diderot could keep abreast by keeping in touch with each other and with a few other members of the elite. The vast majority of the people could get the word, eventually and in some manner, from the local tavern keeper or cure. Anyway they did not need to know very much, the Harris the sis seems to suggest, being somehow mystically in touch with nature and eternity. Perhaps Harris' real target is uni versal literacy...
...indicted by U.S. Attorney James ("Big Jim") Thompson, 38, whose energetic investigations may prove the undoing of the Daley machine. Among Thompson's many achievements: the indictments of 61 Chicago policemen-of whom 38, including two district commanders, have been convicted-for shaking down Chicago businessmen, mostly tavern owners; the indictments and convictions of 18 employees in the office of County Assessor P.J. Cullerton for giving tax breaks to major Democratic Party contributors; lawsuits to open up the Irish-dominated fire department to minority hiring and promotion; and the indictment of the mayor's former director of public...