Word: underworldly
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...order to show us the other, niceguy side of Hoskins' character, we meet his daughter who grows to love him through a series of secret meetings, and his best friend, a jovial mechanic with eccentric marketing ideas and a penchant for stories of the underworld. George tells his friend stories of his own life, pretending that he has invented them. These relationships are completely gratuitous to the film's plotline, and heighten your sneaky feeling that Mona Lisa is little more than a star-vehicle for Hoskins...
...chauffeur, it seems a living hell. How can she endure these rough hands and tawdry nightdreams? How can she not respond to his courtly Cockney love? Simone does respond, in the only way she knows, by using him. She sends her squire out to play knight, searching the Soho underworld for the girl who will fulfill Simone's fantasies and pry open George's blinkered eyes...
...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...
...studio apartment in Boston's North End was an unlikely headquarters for a multimillion-dollar business. No grand entrance, no smiling receptionist. But it was in that nondescript room that leaders of the Angiulo crime family, the 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...
...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...