Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...racket but free on a suspended sentence; John McAdams, Customs sergeant who accepted bribes to let trunkloads of drugs from transatlantic liners pass through Customs gates. Odorous was the tale they told of a narcotics organization which coiled around the U. S., China, Europe, a story of underworld big business, dark deeds. Most of them pointed to Lepke: the big shot...
...career of one of the underworld's biggest and slimiest. The verdict made Lepke subject only to a two-year term, $10,000 fine, but opened wide the door to his conviction on the other counts, which involved 162 more years, $170,000 more in fines...