Cops pursue criminals, women seek financial independence from men, mobsters rip off other mobsters.
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Mr. Walters says the club was forced to shut down after two mobsters began harassing an African-American patron, who returned and shot both mobsters dead.
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Ultimately, the appeal of con artists is the same reason we like mobsters — I actually wrote a piece for the New Yorker about the appeal of mobsters.
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The end of the docks saw the mobsters move out to Jersey, which cleared one headache, though the McManuses and the mobsters had always tried to keep out of each other's way.
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Plus, there's gangsters, mobsters, guns and golden pinky rings galore.
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It's hard for mobsters to resist the dough (pun intended).
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Administering the mobsters' former businesses provides lucrative opportunities for lawyers.
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Last month, the mobsters decided to scale up their threats.
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Prostitution flourishes in the area, a boon for local mobsters.
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Bad guys and mobsters swirled around the agency, as did politicians.
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And choosing between unhappy foreigners and fuming mobsters is not hard.
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Unlike other mobsters, Cali had few run-ins with the law.
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The writers showcase colorful characters, including politicians, mobsters and journalists. RUDY!
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In retirement, Marciano was surrounded by mobsters, his friend told Nack.
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An episode that pits him against Japanese mobsters is almost parodic.
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He had friendships with mobsters, politicians and high-ranking military officers.
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And how much of a role Chinese mobsters still play is unclear.
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How did you get accepted into the inner circle of hardened mobsters?
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France makes a concession, Theresa May suffers defeats and Italy arrests mobsters.
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He had also been investigating corruption with suspected ties to Italian mobsters.
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In five years, he got hundreds of death threats from local mobsters.
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Why were Albanian jihadists crossing the Adriatic to meet with Italian mobsters?
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Two of New York's most notorious Russian mobsters once maintained offices there.
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He has known mobsters and politicians and high-ranking American military officers.
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Jones is also a former prosecutor who previously sent mobsters to prison.
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But I document something like 29,212 transactions of this kind with Russian mobsters.
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In recent decades it has been deployed against mobsters, terrorists and corporate predators.
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"The only people who use cash are drug dealers and mobsters," he added.
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They refused to pay for protection and took legal action against the mobsters.
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His business partners — mobsters and their associates — outfitted their bathtubs with golden taps.
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Matt Damon is beating up mobsters in the new trailer for George Clooney's Suburbicon.
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The pontiff declared that the mobsters would end up in hell unless they repented.
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But he generally flies under the radar when people think of influential Jewish mobsters.
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"We were amused when we heard the confessions of mobsters-turned-informants," he said.
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"I've coached in Pozzuoli, near Naples, with mobsters behind the bench shouting," he says.
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TARRYTOWN "Mobsters on Main Street" series: "The Godfather" (1972), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
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They were able to entice the politicians, who the mobsters needed to run favors.
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He talks about mobsters: John Gotti, Sammy the Bull Gravano, the Ravenite Social Club.
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They had been surveilling a cabal of suspected mobsters for more than a year.
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The result, a kind of "folk Judaism," profoundly influenced Jewish mobsters: The Jewish mobsters grew up in these traditional homes in Jewish neighborhoods that were infused with folk Judaism, such as New York's Lower East Side, Chicago's West Side, and Detroit's East Side.
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The last violent episode happened in 2004 on a dusty road, bordered by the wind turbines that mobsters operated, leading from the town to one of its pristine beaches, when rival mobsters annihilated the most prominent member of the resident family, Carmine Arena.
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Same as every reason for a coup from movie mobsters: the leader is going soft.
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Mr Scala, now a private investigator, took on Hells Angels, rioting prisoners and Russian mobsters.
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He was close to Meyer Lansky, had ties to New Jersey and New York mobsters.
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Some mobsters came in and killed him right there in the middle of the restaurant.
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Davis even went on to say that only drug dealers and mobsters pay with cash.
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This has left a power vacuum which younger, more ruthless mobsters are looking to fill.
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Torshin has denied any connections to Russian mobsters or of funneling money to the NRA.
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It demonstrates in stark terms how criminals today aren't always mobsters lurking on street corners.
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A Times investigation found that the program helped underwrite oligarchs, mobsters and far-right populists.
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There's a whole group of real and fictional early 20th century mobsters to choose from.
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Giuliani, in contrast, made his name by prosecuting mobsters and people accused of insider trading.
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But for mobsters, the appeal of pizzerias goes beyond mere laundering money and drug trafficking.
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Their ugly tangles with politicians, police, and mobsters are a crucial part of Hollywood history.
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Were Opposition Bloc a party of mobsters, as my clients seven years earlier had insinuated?
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I have seen no serious evidence of any explicit link between Trump and Russian mobsters.
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Mobsters such as himself end up "dead or in jail," according to his little speech.
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More negatively, some claim it created organized crime as violence soared and mobsters enriched themselves.
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The mobsters knew he was in the country illegally, notified ICE, and the Russian disappeared.
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His clients have included mobsters, drug dealers and celebrities like Jay-Z and Michael Jackson.
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The mobsters were eventually released from prison, and, one by one, they each wound up dead.
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Two Canadian mobsters were whacked in a 2013 ambush in Sicily, apparently on orders from Montreal.
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From murderers to mobsters, this podcast covers a wide range of criminals with uniquely twisted minds.
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He had this crew of Jewish mobsters from Vienna, and Jack had all these ex-Marines.
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TARRYTOWN "Mobsters on Main Street" series: "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967), starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.
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You know, mobsters don't like, as they're talking to me, having cameras all over the room.
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For Mr. Salvini and his supporters, those Nigerian mobsters symbolize the threat of migrants from Africa.
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He was later convicted of murder for providing information to mobsters to carry out a killing.
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While Mr. Byrne was investigating organized crime, a phone conversation about him between mobsters was recorded.
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He pursued some of the Chicago underworld's most notorious mobsters, including Sam Giancana and Sam Battaglia.
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When it comes to playing bad guys — from ruthless mobsters to shadowy spies — they're already here.
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But the availability of such potent weapons gives Mexican mobsters the ability to overwhelm security forces.
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As the ex-mobsters practiced their scenes and joked with one another in the halls of a disused public hall they were using as a temporary film set, Takakura-gumi's founder So Kuramoto said he hopes to create a less threatening image of reformed ex-mobsters.
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There was a time when prizefighters debased themselves by cavorting with mobsters and crooks and even murderers.
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The man in the novel was killed after he was believed to have betrayed his fellow mobsters.
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George Clooney directs this dark comedy about mobsters making a mess of a seemingly idyllic 1950s neighborhood.
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The city's film-makers have lost their pre-eminence, just as the mobsters they chronicled have declined.
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Prostitutes were the first porn stars, and the show is peopled by streetwalkers, pimps, bartenders and mobsters.
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At least 36 mobsters were killed in that period, and police were desperate to punish the perpetrators.
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In a population of 4.7m, police count over 5,300 mobsters or "prospects" who are angling to join.
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In the most blatant instances, standing up to the mobsters became its own route to personal enrichment.
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And it reinforces the cynical view of the mobsters that their adversaries are no better than them.
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To bolster their cover as mobsters, the agents offered him his pick from a cache of weapons.
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There are cops, mobsters, a female reporter from the Amsterdam News , and a college girl turned barmaid.
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A 1975 report indicated that the CIA attempted to hire mobsters to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
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It has traditionally been — and largely still remains — the government's court of choice for going after mobsters.
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An attempt to re-establish the Cupola in 2008 was thwarted when dozens of mobsters were arrested.
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That'll lead to baked ziti for dinner on Sunday, sure as rats rat and mobsters seek vengeance.
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But then it introduced another mystery, given that both Mr. Geas and Mr. DeCologero were Massachusetts mobsters.
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How did the 1960s impact the younger generation of mobsters coming up who filled in the ranks?
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If employers were hiring mobsters to be heavies in labor disputes, the union would do the same.
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"Only jail scares the mobsters," anti-mafia magistrate Nino Di Matteo told daily newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano.
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In an episode of "The Sopranos," mobsters tossed a man off the bridge above the Great Falls.
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In late 2016, he shut down the border with Colombia, alleging that mobsters there were hoarding currency.
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The author argues that without the mobsters, America might have done a lot less growing and developing itself.
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Before Nichols wrote his first screenplay, he told his father that it would be about New York mobsters.
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It's doubtful selling a 16-year-old to a bunch of mobsters would have been everyone's first choice.
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" Jonathan Chait, New York magazine: "Republicans outsourced Ukraine policy to a private lawyer being paid by Russian mobsters.
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Power was wrested from other mobsters, especially from Italian-American gangs, as any enterprises might outdo each other.
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Bollywood made movies that lionised the local mafia, mobsters financed productions and the nightlife bound the two together.
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Previously, Lip had been socializing with the celebrities and characters (and mobsters) of New York at the Copacabana.
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MOBSTERS, gangsters and bent cops have all been tried under America's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations (RICO) Act.
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Scorsese also relied on use of "de-aging" visual effects to portray his mobsters in their younger years.
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Sater is closely associated with Trump and tied to a network of mobsters from the former Soviet Union.
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In announcing his "Year of Mercy" last April, he said that God's grace is open even to mobsters.
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What makes some of the current cases in Italy particularly serious is evidence of the involvement of mobsters.
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And Long Island mobsters were said to have helped capture saboteurs who came ashore from a German submarine.
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From Netflix originals dropping entire seasons at once to TNT teasing manicurists turned mobsters, TV is back, baby.
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The arrests have stymied mobsters' attempts to re-establish a ruling mob council in the province of Palermo.
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The agents had interviewed mobsters with C.I.A. ties and Cuban exiles in Florida who might have encountered Oswald.
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In November, a New York Times investigation revealed that the subsidies underwrite oligarchs, mobsters and far-right populists.
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In her world, material success justifies itself — especially when the alternative is dealing with loan sharks and mobsters.
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She often accompanied him on assignments, hiding his cameras in her purse while they stalked and photographed mobsters.
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"Mobsters are where power and money are," said Nicola Gratteri, one of Italy's more active anti-mafia investigators.
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Mobsters have started over as bakery owners; reformed assassins have found careers as doll sellers, Ms. Watkins reported.
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"The only people who use cash are drug dealers and mobsters," Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, said on CNN.
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"Everyone involved in that dumpsite lost money — except the mobsters and those working with them," Ms. Castellano said.
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The reason "baby gangs" appeared was to fill a vacuum left by the arrest of so many older mobsters.
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Tampa, incorporated in 2225, was long known for little more than phosphate mining, cigar factories, mobsters and corrupt politicians.
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According to the feds, the mobsters used neighborhood Italian-American pizzerias as fronts for cash—and, of course, heroin.
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"We saw it when he was a federal prosecutor who took on terrorists, mobsters and corporate fraudsters," McCain said.
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Between shootouts, we see bumbling cops and cartoonishly evil mobsters try to figure out how to deal with Frank.
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The act names and shames the Russian state law enforcement agents, tax officials and mobsters complicit in the affair.
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DAVIS: People who use cash, Rudy Giuliani knows when these U.S. attorneys are either drug dealers or a mobsters.
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But in Boston, the details of what mobsters were up to and when is almost never the whole story.
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It all might be chalked up as a bizarre coincidence, had both Zottolas not kept company with reputed mobsters.
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Comey said the closest comparison he could imagine was the New York mobsters he prosecuted earlier in his career.
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"The new young criminals coming in — they don't even know who these old-time mobsters are," Mr. Doherty said.
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In the presence of the mourners, or mobsters, who've delivered him, the son reveals the old man's wizened face.
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But, in Hoffa's absence, mobsters reportedly had formed a successful relationship with Fitz that they didn't want to change.
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But the recent attack by mobsters in Yuen Long far exceeded those previous incidents in scale, blatancy and brutality.
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But the recent attack by mobsters in Yuen Long far exceeded those previous incidents in scale, blatancy and brutality.
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He championed the underdog, resented authority, befriended rogues and mobsters, skewered politicians and always announced what was on his mind.
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He has previously investigated law enforcement corruption, the destruction of CIA videotapes and the Boston FBI office's relationship with mobsters.
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The ensuing financial panic sent the country's oligarchs and mobsters scrambling to find a safe place to put their money.
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He took on mobsters, crooked politicians and dishonest Wall Street bankers in the "Greed is good" days of the 1980s.
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The jail has housed drug dealers, mobsters, operatives for Al Qaeda and extradited drug traffickers from Colombia, like Maria's husband.
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Or, better still, when McCabe describes his role in tracking La Cosa Nostra, Russian mobsters and the Boston Marathon bombers.
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Mr. Weissmann and his team used Mr. Gravano as an explosive ally in their bid to prosecute high-ranking mobsters.
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Not only did the mobsters feel under attack by a reporter, they were out millions of euros in lost revenue.
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In 224, Mr. Trincher was convicted of running a gambling ring catering to Russian mobsters and sentenced to five years.
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But former federal prosecutor Mimi Rocah, calling Trump's purpose "100%" clear, notes that even mobsters don't make extortion demands explicit.
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The killings started not long after Rizzuto's confession in 2007 that he was involved in the murder of three rival mobsters.
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Along the way, he meets notorious mobsters James Conway, played by Robert De Niro, and Tommy DeVito, played by Joe Pesci.
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It is widely expected that most, and probably all, of the killings will turn out to be the work of mobsters.
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Police said she carried messages from her husband to clan members and organized monthly payments to the families of imprisoned mobsters.
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I spoke with several mobsters, including Crazy Phil Leonetti of the Philly family and the so-called "Yuppie Don" Michael Franzese.
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WATTERS: No, he was responding to what Lanny said, because he said only people like that talk in cash are mobsters.
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These mobsters were Sam Giancana, the boss of the Chicago mob, and Santos Trafficant, the head of the mob's Cuban operations.
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In one area, Ragusa, famed for its year-round production of tomatoes, it said mobsters had a total stranglehold on agriculture.
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That made him one of Italy's four most-wanted mobsters and the longest-standing fugitive of the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia.
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Her foes may have included Italian mobsters who are suspected of infiltrating Malta's booming online gaming industry and its narcotics trade.
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There are bullet holes in walls, tire treads on mobsters, and now bullet holes and tire treads all over his song.
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Mr. Connolly, whose job was to recruit mobsters to help take down crime bosses, brought in Mr. Bulger as an informer.
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When Mr. Flemmi's girlfriend, Debra Davis, once overheard that they were F.B.I. informers, the mobsters decided that she had to die.
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Fists bigger than heads and fingers longer than legs factor prominently in his cinematic depictions of outlaws, mobsters and card sharks.
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And Mr. Cohen long held a small stake in his uncle's catering hall, which was frequented by Russian and Italian mobsters.
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I've made cases based on testimony from some of the worst people on Earth -- mobsters, murderers, drug traffickers, you name it.
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I've flipped mobsters who swore a blood oath never to cooperate and who have actually killed cooperators during their Mafia careers.
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"Thieves and mobsters' nest,", "United we save Romania," shouted thousands of protesters braving gusting winds, in front of the government's headquarters.
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Since then it has focused on extensive background checks, mapping the familial relationships between mobsters and longshoremen — an elaborate genealogy project.
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This is where models and Madonna often flock, where mobsters ran megaclubs, and where most visitors spend most of their time.
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A once-unified network of Italian mobsters, street gangs, bikers, and corrupt city officials has decayed and crumbled in the last decade.
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There's corrupt cops, soulless mobsters, wayward college students, and women just trying to survive the lure of a New York City night.
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Everyone has trouble keeping their finances straight, maintaining a clean apartment and fending off tracksuit-sporting Russian mobsters armed with exploding arrows.
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When the economy slumped in the 1990s, mobsters sold drugs from houses known as "tinnies" and demanded protection money from other criminals.
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Castro brought the party to a crashing halt, seizing the mobsters' casinos and hotels and sending them scurrying back to the States.
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Dark, indoor scenes from a film like Goodfellas, left my squinting to see where the mobsters' jackets ended and the nightclub began.
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"A wiretap captured some mobsters commenting that this business was more profitable than drug trafficking," Finance Police Colonel Alessandro Cavalli told reporters.
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Enter Martin Scorsese and his brat pack to bring New York mobsters and their street-smart, terrifying grit to the silver screen.
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But, says Ms Bindi, the civil society groups remain focused on the sort of trigger-happy mobsters responsible for the 1992 assassinations.
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"That's something that began during the Mafia wars, when you could not really trust the lawyers who were defending mobsters," he said.
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As a teenager, before he was ever wanted by the police, he was being pursued by fellow mobsters during a gang war.
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This is where models and Madonna often flock, where mobsters ran mega clubs, and where most visitors spend most of their time.
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Diao Yinan's noir thriller is a twisty, dark dive into China's underbelly — violent and unconventional, a story of mobsters, cops, and revenge.
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Initially, law enforcement speculated that the murder of Cali, who was believed to have ties to Sicilian mobsters, was a mafia hit.
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Even without the spotlight, American mobsters have evolved with the times and remain influential in their own cities and regions, experts say.
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Yet amid all the transformation, some investigators say, racketeers and mobsters are still as present as the barnacles attached to the piers.
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The rabble-rousing evolved into extortion of local businesses, much as it did with the existing white ethnic gangs and local mobsters.
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This adaptation of one of Leonard's books isn't perfect, but by sending mobsters to Hollywood, it captures a little of the author's charm.
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In all, police say three-quarters of the country's mobsters are Maori (they make up just 15% of the population as a whole).
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On Saturday, Firestone lamented that details about the Russian government, mobsters and investors who allegedly received these funds won't be aired at trial.
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Freyre said that claimants to property connected to American mobsters such as Lansky are unlikely ever to see a dollar from the Cubans.
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All of the movies on this list explore mobsters' hijinks, but also the specific emotional qualities that keep friends close and enemies closer.
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Now he's building up his own clothing brand, but he said it's sometimes hard for people to view reformed ex-mobsters as normal.
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The art turns out to be payment for his work as a forensic accountant and money launderer hired by drug cartels and mobsters.
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Fifty-seven days later, mobsters killed one of the remaining members of the anti-Mafia pool, Falcone's friend and investigative partner Paolo Borsellino.
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What did an actor who has brilliantly portrayed mobsters make of a president who was doing a two-bit imitation of a mobster?
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As a defense lawyer, he has represented mobsters and drug dealers, as well as celebrities like the artists Jay-Z and Michael Jackson.
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One diplomat called his Party of Regions a haven for "mobsters and oligarchs," noting that it might be trying to shed that image.
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One of those arrested was Settimio Mineo, 80, whom top mobsters from the area chose this year as the council's leader, officials said.
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Vincent's bar is home base for a vast demimonde ensemble: mobsters, cops, pimps, pornographers, construction workers, streetwalkers and the post-Stonewall gay community.
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Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis became filmdom's most famous cross-dressing duo as straight guys evading mobsters in "Some Like It Hot" (1959).
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Under his leadership, indicted mobsters gave confession videos, describing how they massacred and mutilated their victims, which were played on the evening news.
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If you want to see mobsters violently taking out their rivals, "The Irishman" has a long lull after an early flurry of action.
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The actions of the powerful reverberate down the chain, from the mobsters who control the area to the sex workers at the bottom.
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Mario Cuomo's oldest son, Andrew, is the current governor of New York and has also bristled at references to mobsters in pop culture.
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There the 14-year-old shrewdly observed mobsters shaking down local merchants and, inspired, organized a ring to extort his fellow shoeshine boys.
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Mario Cuomo's oldest son, Andrew, is the current governor of New York and has also bristled at references to mobsters in pop culture.
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The case aimed to expose how Russian mobsters allegedly stole $230 million and hid some of the cash in New York City real estate.
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The management of the mobsters' seized wealth is a huge enterprise: in the 12 months to August 2015, €678m ($793m) was taken from them.
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Even the coke-sniffing Italian mobsters standing in Frank's way are a trope so outdated as to feel like some kind of anarchic statement.
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They also found he made frequent visits to Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, which mobsters routinely used to launder huge sums of money.
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Through two seasons, Stiles had been Gladys on "Get Shorty," another take on Elmore Leonard's 1990 novel in which mobsters meet the movie business.
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The unusually busy plot involves a ruthless gang war between Albanian and Ukrainian mobsters, so a stack of corpses is only to be expected.
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Before Mr. Rupolo, several mobsters and gamblers and at least one rumrunner were believed to have been encased in or weighed down with concrete.
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The report also said the CIA was later interested in using mobsters to deliver a poison pill to Castro in order to kill him.
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Mr. le Carré's 2010 novel, "Our Kind of Traitor" — with its Russian mobsters, British civilians and international intrigue — certainly sounds ready for its closeup.
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Mr. Santiago was barely out of grammar school before he was shining shoes at the Spot Bar, a hangout on Delancey for local mobsters.
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But defense lawyers had argued that the Mafia no longer existed, and their clients merely looked and sounded like Italian mobsters portrayed in film.
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Fearing for their lives and for those of their families, hundreds of mobsters broke their code of silence, or omerta, and cooperated with investigators.
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The story the mobsters were told was that there was a wealthy Arab sheikh who wanted to invest oil money in works of art.
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The mobsters also shook down many other businesses, including lime farming, cattle ranching and taxis, leading to an uprising of vigilante squads against them.
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But per Biography, a lot of unions had ties to organized crime, so Hoffa had to know the mobsters and work with them, too.
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The killing of Gambino family boss Frank Cali brought back memories of mobsters getting whacked in brazen hits that stunned the nation decades ago.
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Sure of the protection of Black Muslim heavies, he was able to defy the mobsters who for too long had controlled and corrupted the sport.
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In his homily, he encouraged people to "knock down" the walls of social codes — known in Italy as "omerta" — that discourage people from denouncing mobsters.
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He had company: gang members, mobsters and another valuable F.B.I. informant, Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, a Somali terrorist captured in international waters near Yemen in 2011.
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The Cupola, the mobsters determined, would meet periodically to deal with pressing issues, including choosing local leaders, resolving disputes and punishing those who had transgressed.
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But things got physical after he began writing a series of stories that showed how Sicily's largest fruit and vegetable market was controlled by mobsters.
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Baby pictures and graduation portraits appeared beside photos of mobsters in khaki, posing in front of those faux pastoral backdrops used in prison rec rooms.
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There were sanctions against criminals, mobsters and other international monsters, and upgrades in pay for federal employees who earned less than their private sector counterparts.
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In September, the justice minister of the state of North-Rhine Westphalia, Peter Biesenbach, went so far as to liken cum-ex players to mobsters.
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Mobsters were drawn to the game because they could pocket proceeds from player transfers, something that proved particularly profitable when selling to major European clubs.
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Police linked up the screen names to real mobsters: Aaaaaaacounts was Pietro Magistrale, Shadow was Felice Racaniello, Gâteau was Steven Fracas, and JJ was Simpson.
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The CIA was in touch with a bunch of mobsters — including a "known hoodlum in the Chicago area," another in Miami, and several in Cuba.
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So Kidan hired Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello and his associate Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari, mobsters with ties to the Gambino family and John Gotti, for protection.
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FOR an inkling of how hard it is for Italian authorities to identify Mafia activity, consider how mobsters disguise the pizzo, or protection payments, they extort.
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The mobsters then created fake subsidiaries and had other corporate entities under their control launch multi-million dollar sham lawsuits against those subsidiaries, US prosecutors allege.
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That's how he got assigned to the Chicken Coup Gang, a band of adorable mobsters with their hands in a racketeering arrangement spanning most of downtown.
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At the time, Russian mobsters were beginning to invest in high-end real estate, which offered an ideal vehicle to launder money from their criminal enterprises.
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It's the tale of ambitious young Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) who, from his youth, desires nothing so much as a life among the mobsters he idolizes.
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So when the I.R.S. agents — who posed as Russian mobsters interested in buying Mr. Rafael's business — came along, Mr. Rafael was quick to talk to them.
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Such negotiations are a higher-stakes, global version of the world he came up in, one of cutthroat real estate developers and shady businessmen and mobsters.
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Kevin says at one point ... the film played more like a trio of old coots who lost their keys instead of menacing mobsters in their prime.
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Anthony Cardinale, a defense lawyer who has represented mobsters — including, decades ago, Mr. Salemme — described the trial here as a "last vestige" of such federal prosecutions.
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He had fascinating stories about photographing John Lennon's body at the morgue, lifeless mobsters after a hit, and violent scenes from rougher times in Times Square.
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Natale's reign at the top only lasted a couple of years, however, before he was sent to prison again for associating with mobsters while still on probation.
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Smart mobsters in this day and age no longer just line their pockets with traditional rackets (gambling, loansharking, extortion)—and some try to stay away all together.
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The mobsters of the urban mafia are all the DJs, producers, promoters, graphic designers and venue owners who contribute to this very important social integration in Lisbon.
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Italian media have long speculated over who might have replaced him, but prosecutors said on Tuesday Palermo mobsters waited until after his death to anoint a successor.
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In 1987, just three years after he attended the closing with Trump, Bogatin pleaded guilty to taking part in a massive gasoline-bootlegging scheme with Russian mobsters.
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A journalist, Jan Kuciak, was murdered last year while investigating Italian mobsters who had infiltrated the farm industry, profited from subsidies and built relationships with powerful politicians.
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But there will also be gambling apps galore, and, if the United Kingdom is any example, plenty of advertising featuring actors who generally play tough-guy mobsters.
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Dozens of forest fires which broke out within hours of each other in Sicily on Thursday are believed to have been begun by mobsters or their collaborators.
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And in the apotheosis of many Italian nightmares, Nigerian mobsters have replaced, or worked with, the Sicilian mafia to strike new fear into natives and immigrants alike.
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Sports was a big business as well — in one case, a bit too big, as mobsters were able to alter the outcome of the 1919 World Series.
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Three infamous Detroit mobsters — Louis Fleisher, Harry Fleisher, and Henry Shorr — were in synagogue, as Jews are supposed to be all day on the Day of Atonement.
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The bad news: I was shaking and sweating so badly that, during the final few floors of our descent, the mobsters had a good laugh at me.
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US prosecutors nabbed FIFA officials with laws originally drafted with the mafia in mind, but these men made poor mobsters, so civil, so Swiss in their mundanity.
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Where to watch: KanopySynopsis: A long-spanning tale of the Chinese jianghu criminal underworld, "Ash is Purest White" tracks the relationship between two mobsters from 2001 to 2017.
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Yet, while individual mobsters have emigrated, there is little evidence that gangs formed in the Balkans have expanded internationally like Cosa Nostra or another Italian mafia, the 'Ndrangheta.
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An illustrious career battling mobsters (whose values and methods he recalls amid the mirrored glass of Trump Tower) and Dick Cheney on torture offers much proof of that.
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Part of Mr Pierucci's outrage reflects America's harsh judicial system: a legal playbook devised to bring down mobsters and racketeers has since been repurposed for the corporate world.
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Last November, a Quebec Superior Court judge ordered the Crown to acknowledge RCMP surveillance techniques including "mobile device identifier" technology used to eavesdrop on suspected mobsters in 2011.
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Blutrich's tell-all book is part confession, part cautionary tale, and strangely funny (like the time he says he extracted confessions from unwitting mobsters during a proctological exam).
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Indeed, after years of decline, with the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta overtaking it as Italy's most powerful mobsters, prosecutors believe it is trying to rebuild, starting with its drug trade.
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She joins a convent in San Francisco, where she isn't allowed to indulge the habits that a woman who spends her time in lounges with mobsters might enjoy.
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In 220, Sater pleaded guilty to racketeering—operating a "pump and dump" stock fraud in partnership with alleged Russian mobsters that bilked investors of at least $2000 million.
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From communist academics and charming mobsters, to brash movie execs and working-class stiffs, the film oscillates wildly between comedy and melodrama, Borscht Belt humor, and gentle sentimentality.
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He examines Mr. Trump's taste for debt, what associates have described as his startling capacity for recklessness, multiple corporate bankruptcies, dealings with reputed mobsters and accusations of fraud.
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A bit like the Chechen mobsters in HBO's "Barry," the vamps of "Shadows" seem to be cosplaying themselves, comically performing a received, pop-culture idea of scary-sexiness.
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The Sinaloa cartel leader is charged under the "Kingpin Statute," a law created to prosecute drug lords and mobsters, and he faces life in prison if he's convicted.
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Scorsese says the looks that stand out are those of some of those unhappy mobsters, as observed by Frank's daughter Peggy (Anna Paquin) while she's dancing with Hoffa.
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If the NRA received money from Russian mobsters without knowing its origin, the organization could nonetheless be compelled to return the money or pay it as a fine.
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Competitors, unhappy players, Russian mobsters; they're all ready to stop Molly from succeeding, and she's only able to achieve her success through sheer tenacity — and an intense work ethic.
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Before Captain Marvel graced our screens, there was Natasha Romanoff, holding her own alongside the Avengers' otherwise male crew, kicking ass against alien villains and petty human mobsters alike.
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Paradoxically, the spread of these recklessly violent bands is a consequence of successful policing: many of the city's most powerful mobsters, like the teenage boss's father, have been jailed.
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Many yakuza mobsters spend hundreds of hours under an inky gun having their entire bodies painted, as a sign of gang membership and to show they can endure pain.
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On the satirical "Daily Show", Jon Stewart, the then host, likened the scheme to the insurance fraud in "Goodfellas", in which mobsters insure a restaurant before blowing it up.
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"Ex-PM Yanukovych's Party of Regions is working to change its image from that of a haven for mobsters into that of a legitimate political party," the cable said.
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His man cave, which doubles as a home office, is decorated with figurines, paintings, and memorabilia depicting infamous movie villains like Scarface, the mobsters from Goodfellas, and Freddy Krueger.
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Challenging the stereotypical portrayal of Sicilians as mobsters, social enterprises - businesses that aim to do good while making profits - are steering visitors toward mafia-free hotels, restaurants and shops.
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Two undercover agents, acting as his buyers, greeted him with feigned familiarity and took the visitors out to expensive restaurants, leaving extravagant tips in the style of moneyed mobsters.
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Mob cases have proved, time and time again—Gotti, Merlino, go all the way back to mobsters like Legs Diamond—you just never know what the result will be.
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At the Capri, a receptionist directed the doctor to a room decorated with photographs of Havana during its heyday, when mobsters and Hollywood stars mingled at the rooftop bar.
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Some probe the duality of the soul in the context of mobsters and angry men; some juxtapose the sacred and profane; some are contemplative masterpieces that explore spiritual realities.
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Over the years, all manner of theories have surfaced as to who was responsible: Vatican operatives, Irish Republican Army militants, Middle Eastern emirs and, the most popular premise — mobsters.
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Wednesday is Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, and a good excuse to read this great Tablet story about Jewish mobsters in the early 20th century.
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Businessman Trump exhibited this willful ignorance when, for example, he said the scientific connection between asbestos exposure and disease was a matter of a conspiracy carried out by mobsters.
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RICO is not limited to mobsters, however, and two civil RICO cases are good illustrations of how broadly the law can be applied, much to the chagrin of defendants.
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Trump has a history of Italian mob ties in the US and some of his lackeys like consigliere Michael Cohen have even claimed to be tight with Russian mobsters.
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But unlike Tony Soprano and his mobsters, this gang works on the global stage; their actions affect not only the standing of the United States but the country's security.
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As hotels and bars stock up on alcohol, some hot-spring resorts have been prodded to relax their rules on tattoos, which in Japan are associated with yakuza mobsters.
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Indeed, a number of turncoat mobsters have reported choosing to forgo witness protection in recent years, living openly on social media and sometimes even writing books about their experiences.
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"False statements" in campaign finance is like the tax evasion for mobsters: if the feds can't get a criminal on anything else, they get them on the paper work.
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Howard Hughes, an eccentric billionaire, bought up Vegas properties, pushed out the free-spending mobsters (a national crackdown on organised crime helped) and instituted a new era of bean-counting.
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It's entirely possible that Trump was never more than a convenient patsy for Russian oligarchs and mobsters, with his casinos and condos providing easy pass-throughs for their illicit riches.
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That year, FBI officials began investigating Firtash; they knew then that he had ties to some of Eastern Europe's most notorious mobsters, as well as a direct line to Moscow.
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In Slovakia, the top prosecutor has acknowledged the existence of an "agricultural Mafia," and a journalist investigating the infiltration of the farm industry by Italian mobsters was murdered last year.
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The truth is that when Donald Trump said 'cash,' which Rudy Giuliani knows that only drug dealers and mobsters talk about cash, it was, you heard Michael Cohen ... say what?
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Before it's over, though, she's swimming not just with fish, but sharks, including mobsters who want a piece of her action and aren't accustomed to taking "no" for an answer.
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The ornate plot revolves around Cristi (Vlad Ivanov), a veteran police detective who has agreed to help a group of mobsters spring a big-time criminal from a Bucharest prison.
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It has also been the home of many other reputed mobsters, including Salvatore Gravano, known as Sammy the Bull, a onetime hit man who informed on his boss, John Gotti.
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When we jump to the real mobsters in the mansion it suddenly becomes very smooth, we shot everything with a steadicam but still with a good energy and quick shots.
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He suggested that the office is investigating him because they're "a Trump-deranged bunch of silly New York liberals" who are jealous of his success prosecuting mobsters in the 1980s.
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Before Mr. Rupolo, several reputed mobsters and gamblers and at least one rumrunner disappeared from New York and were believed to have been encased in or weighed down with concrete.
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Any effort to crack down on, say, mobsters who stash their money in New York real estate also inconveniences corporations seeking to minimize their taxes, and thus triggers concerted opposition.
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I've spent days with former New York mobsters who have been given new identities and relocated to a faraway state; it's the classic fish-out-of-water story come true.
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But Italy's chief anti-Mafia prosecutor, Franco Roberti, hinted at new evidence that Cosa Nostra's mobsters have never ceased to regard him as their chief, despite his long spell behind bars.
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McCarthy, Moss, and Haddish star in crime drama "The Kitchen" as three wives of Irish mobsters who take up more active roles in the crime world after their husbands get arrested.
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Before the revolution, US mobsters paid off Cuban officials to let them operate hotels, casinos and brothels on the island, just 19973 miles from Florida but well out of US jurisdiction.
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Most teens can't relate to mobsters for parents, but they can relate to being forced to support their parents in endeavors they may not agree with simply because they are children.
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Bulger, 89, had lived a double life as one of Boston's most notorious mobsters and as a secret Federal Bureau of Investigation informant before going on the run for 16 years.
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Then a Manhattan lawyer who represented several reputed mobsters, Cohn had become infamous in the 1950s as the chief inquisitor during Joe McCarthy's "Red Scare" hearings in the United States Senate.
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Three mobsters, three decades: witness the rise and fall of "Jimmy the Gent" (Robert De Niro), Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), and Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci) in Scorsese's best-loved Mafia movie.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italian mobsters make as much money trafficking narcotics in Italy as Fiat does selling cars, but without having to pay taxes, the anti-mafia prosecutors office said on Wednesday.
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If Trump does value loyalty, it's loyalty as understood by mobsters: the reciprocal loyalty of those who stay true to each other because betrayal would cause both men to be punished.
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For years, United States officials would only say that Mr. Levinson, a meticulous F.B.I. investigator credited with busting Russian and Italian mobsters, was working for a private firm on his trip.
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By 1986, the anti-Mafia team was ready to bring charges against four hundred and seventy-five mobsters, in what became known as the "maxi-trial," the world's largest Mafia proceeding.
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One looks at the mobsters who carried out contract killings during the 1930s in New York City; the other retraces how two Texas teenagers became assassins for a Mexican crime syndicate.
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The Oscar-winning screenwriter makes his directorial debut with this adaptation of Molly Bloom's memoir about the high-stakes poker games she ran for Hollywood stars, sports figures and Russian mobsters.
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But the core of the film is the wisecracking relationship between Paul and Abe, who have to learn to trust each other to survive the cops and mobsters on their tail.
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By the next network upfronts, or summer movie blockbuster season, Latino drug operatives may outpace their chief rivals — jihadist terrorists and Russians mobsters — and become the country's leading screen bad guys.
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Investigators tracking a series of burglaries learned that several organized crime members had been victims, leading to an uneasy chase between the police and the mobsters to find the burglars first.
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Overseeing it would be Patrick J. Fitzgerald, a former federal prosecutor whose reputation for investigations into mobsters, terrorists and corrupt politicians led admirers to deem him a modern-day Eliot Ness.
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James (Whitey) Bulger had amassed enemy after enemy over a lifetime of murder, extortion, double-crossing and — in a breach of the cardinal rule of his ilk — snitching on rival mobsters.
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He found out that one of the companies growing the famed Pachino tomato, a special cherry tomato certified by Italy's Agriculture Ministry, was owned by the sons of two prominent mobsters.
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This follows more than a century of political bosses, many of them corrupt, associating with mobsters, shaking down constituents and businesses as well as controlling everything, including who gets a job.
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The Democrats' lawyer, Daniel S. Goldman, joined the House Intelligence Committee earlier this year, bringing expertise in prosecuting criminals and mobsters as a former assistant United States attorney in New York.
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"Beyond cocaine smuggling, 'Ndrangheta mobsters used to be strong on extortion and public bids; now it's gaming and the migrants centers," Mr. Gratteri explained in his office, behind an armored door.
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Mr. Durham, who colleagues said "could hear grass grow" on surveillance recordings, led a prosecution that linked mobsters in Connecticut and Rhode Island, even unveiling the first recorded mob-induction ceremony.
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But Mafia defectors and investigators, who listened to his conversations on electronic bugs and telephone taps, said he would become enraged over the slightest suspicion that other mobsters were cheating him.
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Russo says Italian mobsters respect an unspoken rule that family homes are sacred -- and that's why he believes the shooting was probably motivated by money and drugs, and not mob politics.
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Asked to rank organised-crime groups by the danger they pose in Europe, a senior official at the EU's law enforcement agency, Europol, put Albanian mobsters ahead even of their Russian counterparts.
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Molinas, who was connected to big-time mobsters such as Genovese Family Capo Vincent "The Chin" Gigante and the real-life guy Joe Pesci played in Casino, was the point shaving kingpin.
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However, a national poll on Monday showed two thirds of respondents believe drug lords and mobsters are more powerful than the government after the gunbattles last week that forced an army retreat.
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Thanks to movies like The Godfather cementing the image of tuxedoed mobsters hanging out in cigar rooms in our collective memory, the Mafia can oftentimes feel like a thing of the past.
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Then, it becomes your job to solve the mystery, trading clues with fellow riders and gathering information from potential suspects such as jealous lovers, rival mobsters and a pair of undercover feds.
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The baby-faced new arrivals may come face-to-face with tattooed mobsters known as the vory-v-zakone ('thieves-in-law'), or smaller cliques including murderous neo-Nazis and militant jihadis.
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Italian Agriculture Minister Teresa Bellanova said the police operation showed the changing face of Sicilian mobsters, traditionally associated with drug trafficking and protection rackets but now looking to profit from EU scams.
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"The Sopranos," which was created by David Chase and chronicled the sometimes mundane lives of New Jersey mobsters, became a cultural phenomenon and helped initiate the boom in high-quality cable dramas.
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He was "old school" and had avoided tenure at FBI headquarters (FBI HQ), earning his "bones" by toiling decades on the street, chasing down mobsters and putting together solid cases against them.
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The police blitz had been scheduled for Friday but was hastily brought forward a day when investigators discovered that someone had tipped off the mobsters and their associates to the impending arrests.
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He represented a range of clients, including Donald J. Trump, but unlike Mr. Cohn, he shied away from mobsters and even spurned a lunch invitation from one who was Mr. Cohn's client.
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Pilot Cliff Seacord (the effortlessly charming Billy Campbell) finds and straps on an experimental rocket pack as he struggles to save his girl (Jennifer Connelly) from mobsters and Nazis in 1930s California.
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Mueller's 16-lawyer team is comprised of seasoned prosecutors with significant experience fighting fraudsters, mobsters, and terrorists and with building cases against high-level targets by eliciting cooperation from more peripheral subjects.
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Italian police have arrested the suspected new head of the Sicilian mafia and 45 other alleged mobsters in a major blow to organised crime on the Mediterranean island, the government said on Tuesday.
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"The trial impacted the mob in that it shut down a very lucrative operation that was running smoothly and brought in a lot of steady income for American and Sicilian mobsters," he explained.
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In 803, the Manhattan district attorney's office brought a sweeping racketeering case against a wide range of mobsters, the trade associations that enforced what amounted to a cartel, and many private carting companies.
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He had handled scores of cases against organized crime figures, playing a central role in an effort that gutted the Bonanno crime family and led to the convictions of more than 70 mobsters.
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"The fight against the Mafia can no longer be delegated only to specialists because today's mobsters know more than ever to blend in with our world," she said, according to Corriere della Sera.
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There's a scene in "The Sopranos" that has a Mafia consigliere impersonating Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, in the same way many real-life mobsters fixated on the glamorous depictions of themselves onscreen.
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A Yale- and Stanford-educated lawyer, he grew up in a world of Washington elites and made headlines as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York by putting mobsters behind bars.
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In the case of Lidl, the mobsters allegedly used their influence to obtain contracts for work like warehouse logistics or kitting out new shops, the arrest warrant issued by a Milan court showed.
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Wouldn't it serve your ... up here if you're a Democrat operative to make it look like the Republicans are a bunch of insane lunatics and have some mobsters on their side as well?
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Everybody knew that Cohn was connected to the most powerful mobsters in New York, and that thanks to him, John Gotti was able to get away with a two-year sentence for murder.
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Jerry Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip-club owners and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched an undercover scam sting called Operation Final Answer.
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A whole generation of Philly mobsters in between the two was locked up or buried while Ralph was in jail, and Nicky Scarfo was running the family (into the ground, to a large degree).
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In southern Italy, Di Stefano said, this would be a gift to mobsters, who have embezzled money from camp administrators and profit by serving as brokers who arrange labor on the region's commercial farms.
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Blutrich spent 13 years in jail on fraud charges, getting a hefty sentence even though he had worked as an FBI informant, wearing a wire and recording some 1,000 hours of conversations with mobsters.
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It led to a wide conspiracy that involved mobsters, psychic, strip-club owners, drug traffickers and a family of Mormons who falsely claimed to have won more than $24 million in cash and prizes.
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In some cases, the FBI was pursuing others who did business with the Trump organization, including alleged mobsters who controlled key contractors used by many real estate developers in New York during the 1980s.
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The violations date back to a time when the Taj Mahal was the preferred gambling spot for Russian mobsters living in Brooklyn, according to federal investigators who tracked organized crime in New York City.
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Each issue during the paper's short run featured hate-filled diatribes alleging that Jewish mobsters, in collusion with local officials and law enforcement, were running illegal gambling, bootlegging and racketeering operations throughout the city.
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Mr. Bulger said that Jeremiah O'Sullivan, a former assistant United States attorney who died in 2009, had given him immunity during the 1980s in return for protecting his life from the mobsters he prosecuted.
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ROME (Reuters) - A European court ruled on Tuesday that Italy's tough prison regimes for mobsters and convicted terrorists who refused to cooperate with the justice system violated human rights and needed to be changed.
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Red Hot, Candy's (Maggie Gyllenhaal) film, is set to be a box office success, but there's a problem: Harvey (David Krumholtz) and Frankie (James Franco) sold the rights to the film to rival mobsters.
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Rick and Morty face down insectoid Gromflomite mobsters in the three-and-a-half-minute gore-fest, which is kind of like Pulp Fiction without all the developed characters, subplots, time shifts, and BDSM.
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Bharara's team of hard-driving prosecutors also went after international narcotics traffickers, corruption in local and state government, including in Albany, and took down gang kingpins and mobsters in the Bronx, Yonkers and other areas.
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The tantalizing phone call represented an opportunity to squash a key piece of that illicit capital flow and maybe make it a lot more difficult for American mobsters to hoard the riches they had stolen.
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It turned out to be fascinating because it was a trip into the past with Elvis Presley and Howard Hughes and all these larger-than-life mobsters and all these larger-than-life sports figures.
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PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - Police in the Sicilian capital of Palermo scooped up 25 suspected mobsters on an array of charges on Tuesday, including a woman accused of filling in as boss for her imprisoned husband.
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They were a carjacking gang and they would steal cars and sell them to Russian mobsters who would put them in ships and take them to Russia because they didn't have big, American cars there.
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Perrotta, a former military-turned-Secret Service agent who investigated New York City mobsters and computer hackers, began working security for federal agencies in 2004, according to his biography on his Sequoia Security Group website.
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He was captured in Palermo, Sicily's capital, in 1993 and imprisoned under a law that requires strict security for top mobsters, including being detained in isolated sections of prisons with limited time outside their cells.
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Based on a true story, it stars Eddie Murphy as Rudy Ray Moore, a pioneer of the '70s Black action genre that was known for mobsters, pimps, and classic female crime fighters like Foxy Brown.
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"The whole word will remember this man," said reveler Duncy Fajardo near the iconic National Hotel that hosted Ernest Hemingway and Frank Sinatra, and even known mobsters, before Castro's 1959 revolution led to its nationalization.
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Though "The Irishman" is set within a familiar milieu of mobsters with boat-size cars, all captured in artful camera movements, its three-and-a-half-hour runtime immerses us in this world's punishing emptiness.
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He helped young people in an area with high unemployment avoid the snare of the Mafia, asked parishioners to help police investigations, refused donations from mobsters and banned them from joining traditional religious street processions.
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Candy's film, "Red Hot," is coming together well enough to attract some buzz and get her thinking about her next project, but there are signs that ham-handed mobsters will have their way with it.
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Even during the 2016 campaign, Mr. Cohen pursued plans for a Trump Tower in Moscow, coordinating with Felix Sater, a felon with ties to Russian mobsters who had worked on other deals with Mr. Trump.
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On men-only days there may have been cigar smoking and deal making (legend has it that mobsters liked the baths), but Ms. Lutchen remembers women wrapped in scratchy sheets who soaked their feet in tubs.
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Since state-indulged mobsters cannot be brought to book credibly in Russia, this legislation at least strips them of the ability to spend their ill-gotten gains in the West, which is arguably a harsher punishment.
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Pluto is also the planet of mobsters, gangsters, and manipulators, and it also represents jealousy and obsession—and, being that it will be sitting with vain Venus, you should definitely watch out for issues around envy!
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Over the past three decades, at least 63 people with known or alleged links to Russian mobsters or oligarchs have owned, lived in, and even run criminal activities out of Trump Tower and other Trump properties.
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The small Tappacola tribe has welcomed a group of mobsters, known as the Coast Mafia, to indulge in unlimited development in tribal land (despoiling nature equals terrible) in exchange for a share of the casino's profits.
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Shortly thereafter, Michael Cohen, the president's long-time attorney who has been labelled by many his "fixer," revealed he would take the Fifth Amendment, an action Trump once claimed is behavior similar to conduct of mobsters.
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Unlike most of the mobsters, who tried to play it tough and not say anything (and some went to jail for it), Rosselli answered every question, but with a strategic skill that ultimately gave nothing away.
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With Mr. Manafort's help, the party was "working to change its image from that of a haven for mobsters into that of a legitimate political party," the American ambassador at the time, John E. Herbst, wrote.
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"They named the oldest member as a sign of respect" as well as a sign that the new crop of mobsters had chosen to adhere to the established rules of Cosa Nostra, Colonel Di Stasio said.
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They included tantalizing talk of mobsters and Cubans and spies, Kremlin suspicions that Lyndon B. Johnson was behind the killing, and fear among the authorities that the public would not accept the official version of events.
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Mr. Saviano earned the long line of people who wish him the very worst with his first book, "Gomorrah," which in 2006 peeled back Naples's skin to name the mobsters who he says destroyed his city.
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There was a dais of dignitaries, a roomful of Teamsters and mobsters, the crooner Jerry Vale, dancing girls, prime rib and, out of consideration for the many Catholics in the room on a Friday night, lobster.
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"Mikey and Nicky" (1976), which she also wrote, is a dark dazzler about two small-time mobsters and childhood friends — played by Falk and John Cassavetes — one of whom has heard he's been marked for death.
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Salemme was kicked out of witness protection in 2004 when he was charged with lying to investigators for suggesting other mobsters killed DiSarro and was later allowed back under government protection — until DiSarro&aposs remains were found.
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On the one hand, this is clearly a Russiagate story — while serving as Trump's personal lawyer and fixer, Cohen appears to have maintained associations with Russian mobsters, and he is now a subject of Robert Mueller's investigation.
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THE weeks before the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin on August 15th are shakedown time in Naples: one of three moments in the year when traders can expect their neighbourhood mobsters to collect protection money.
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For starters, at the time Trump's mentor on issues of politics and business was Roy Cohn, a lawyer whose other clients included a passel of mobsters, among them the bosses of the Genovese and Gambino crime families.
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But the fact that a top Russian mafia boss lived and worked in Trump's own building indicates just how much high-level Russian mobsters came to view the future president's properties as a home away from home.
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British lawyers laze next to the pool as the afternoon sun arcs over the hills, gossiping about recent convictions of Albanian mobsters and future postings to Africa before heading back to Pristina, a 15-minute drive away.
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" Cianci eventually wrote an autobiography, "Politics and Pasta: How I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Advised a President, Dined with Sinatra, Spent Five Years in a Federally Funded Gated Community, and Lived to Tell the Tale.
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The pimps may be feeling marginalized, but otherwise, everyone is making money: the bars, the parlors, the peeps and the studio, not to mention the mobsters backing them and the cops paid to look the other way.
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Italy toughened jail conditions for mobsters and terrorists following the bloody struggles of the 1980s and the 1990s, which culminated with the murder of two top Sicilian anti-mafia magistrates, Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone, in 1992.
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In the back seat, "Five" (Adria Arjona) attempts to remove a bullet from the torso of "Two" (Mélanie Laurent), who thinks she's fine despite losing "a shit ton of blood" thanks to a gaggle of Italian mobsters.
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Celebrity Cars, the company selling the infamous mobsters vehicle, claims his former Cadillac is one of the earliest bulletproof cars after it was outfitted with an inch thick bulletproof glass windows and almost 3,000 pounds of armored plating.
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It had everything one could want in a story about a masterful, though ultimately unsuccessful, scam — psychics, mobsters, strip club owners, and even a family of Mormons who had falsely claimed over $24 million in cash and prizes.
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We called him up to find out why New York gangsters get all the hype, who the lesser known (and most dynamic) New Jersey mobsters were, and, more recently, who—if anyone—The Sopranos were really based on.
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New York's impresario of the political dark arts, Cohn was notorious for playing the henchman for Red-baiting Senator Joe McCarthy, and then became a lawyer/fixer for anyone who could pay, including mobsters and corrupt union officials.
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And on top of all the world leaders, mobsters, C-list celebrities, and sports officials named in the docs, there are also over 1,300 Canadian mailing addresses linked to offshore firms that are just starting to get noticed.
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The mobsters Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta) and James Conway (Robert De Niro) wait in a booth for word that their partner in crime, Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci), has been "made," or inducted into a crime family.
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" Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this obituary referred incorrectly to a recorded telephone conversation between mobsters in which one said that Mr. Byrne, who was Essex County prosecutor at the time, "couldn't be bought.
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What sets them apart is their use of social media: While silence was the code for old-school mobsters, these younger ones are endlessly texting each other, posting their exploits on Facebook, chronicling their lives and aspirations electronically.
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Players in the world of Philadelphia organized crime, a less glamorized lot than their New York City counterparts, were known to hang out in the Friendly Lounge, described in later years as something like college for young mobsters.
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Decades of prosecutions and stiffer penalties that gave authorities more leverage to persuade mobsters to give up their friends have left a fractured organization made up of "Soprano wannabees" who dabble in loansharking, illegal gambling and drugs, Johnson said.
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Speaking to the Associated Press, he compared the violence in Joker to the violence in the John Wick movies, which star Keanu Reeves as a former assassin who's dragged back into the business when some mobsters kill his puppy.
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However, many other less prominent mobsters who were caught up in the big anti-Mafia trials of the last two decades have either been freed, like Dainotti, or else are coming up for release, like Riina's nephew Giovanni Grizzaffi.
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Whether Trump knew it or not, Russian mobsters and corrupt oligarchs used his properties not only to launder vast sums of money from extortion, drugs, gambling, and racketeering, but even as a base of operations for their criminal activities.
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Locals suspected that Chinese mobsters were disposing of corpses in exchange for passports, which they then sold to new arrivals, a scheme that took advantage of the native population's apparent inability to tell any one Chinese person from another.
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What armed private individuals have given us are mobsters and gang members shooting each other and law enforcement officers, the Whiskey Rebellion of the 18th century, the Civil War New York City draft riots, and the slaughter of schoolchildren.
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Starting in the 1980s, a group of young Dutch mobsters gained a kind of celebrity status — notably Willem Holleeder, one of the men who in 1983 kidnapped Freddy Heineken, the chief executive of the brewing company, and his driver.
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Back in Palermo, Ms. Battaglia found herself on the front lines of the so-called second Mafia War, which began in the late 1970s and ebbed and flowed for a decade, sparked by the incursion of mobsters from Corleone.
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In circles like those of Ukrainian power-brokers or the New York mobsters of Mr Zelensky's favourite film, "Once Upon a Time in America", deals do not need to be laid out directly for their substance to be understood.
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Yet here in El Vedado, a neighborhood once reputed as a playground for American mobsters in the 23s (think Godfather Part II), there is now a pulsating nightlife with clubs, private restaurants, and bars attracting tourists and locals alike.
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It's easier for us to be fascinated by them because human beings are always fascinated by crime, but when it's con artists or mobsters, you feel like you have permission because you don't think of it as violent crime.
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The defect of that idea, says Arturo Varvelli of the Milan-based Institute for International Political Studies, a think-tank, is that Italy's mobsters exert greater control in the south, whereas a sizeable majority of its Muslims live in the north.
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" Just as he had done for dictators in the Philippines and Zaire, Paul Manafort found himself in Ukraine in the fall of 2005 to help reshape the public perception of an unpopular, pro-Kremlin political party associated with "oligarchs and mobsters.
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A renowned local journalist, celebrated for his denunciations of the mobsters' activities, faces similar allegations, while the head of the bosses' union in Sicily is also under investigation, accused of steering contracts towards firms in the grip of the Mafia.
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Robert DeLuca, 70, was arrested in June and charged with lying about the slaying of Steven DiSarro, a former nightclub manager believed to have been killed by Boston mobsters on suspicion he had been talking to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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PALERMO (Reuters) - Pope Francis appealed to Sicily's Mafia on Saturday to abandon a life of crime and violence, saying the island needed "men and women of love, not men and women 'of honor,'" using the term mobsters apply to themselves.
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He proceeded to gift the pieces to family members and a growing network of associates — which included "mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, convicts, drug traffickers, and even a family of Mormons" — in exchange for a cut of the laundered winnings.
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In recent years, the feds have suffered numerous setbacks, from the Gotti mistrials to the not guilty verdict in the Lufthansa heist trial to the lack of cooperation from New York City mobsters like Genovese family capo, Pasquale "Patsy" Parrello.
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The authorities kept tabs on Merlino since he exited prison in 2011, and they believed he was part of a criminal group made up of other aging or supposedly retired mobsters who were dubbed the East Coast La Cosa Nostra.
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Why do you think real-life mobsters like John Gotti and Al Capone get a lot more play and notoriety in pop culture than someone like Frank Costello, even though Costello arguably had more power and reach at his peak?
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"I've always been reluctant to talk about it," he says, telling me about his lawyer father, Rudolph Halley, chief counsel for the Kefauver committee inquiry into organized crime who became "an instant folk hero" grilling mobsters like Frank Costello on television.
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"Tony Pro took the Fifth 44 times," Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an interview, recalling his mother, Ethel Kennedy, bringing him to the hearings as a child to watch his father question Mr. Hoffa and a series of alleged mobsters.
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In 2014, for instance, the union recommended the 62-year-old daughter of one of New York's most famous mobsters, Benjamin (Lefty) Ruggiero (played by Al Pacino in the film "Donnie Brasco"), Mr. Arsenault said, adding that other such cases abound.
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As the Springfield criminal enterprise took off, Bruno began to run afoul of the family, as rumors circulated that he had been spotted talking to an FBI agent and as other mobsters began angling for a piece of his territory.
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"He has no concern for politics or public opinion," said Donald Stern, the former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts who drafted Durham to lead a strike force that uncovered corrupt links between the FBI and mobsters in Boston two decades ago.
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The Punisher is packed with fantastic action sequences, whether in urban warfare with Billy and his lackeys or in smaller fight scenes like a brawl with mobsters in a gym, choreographed to use as many pieces of weight-lifting equipment as possible.
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Trump, which the Times noted had "adopted the language of Mafia bosses" by referring to people like Cohen as "rats," has been offered as an example of an antihero, and his actions—often odious and potentially deadly, like those of mobsters—are folkloric.
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That would be 2009, 2010 time frame -- and said we are going to use the most stringent form of law enforcement on people in the finance industry, just like mobsters and just like drug dealers, and wire tap, raids, et cetera, et cetera.
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Over the following years, Jacobson's crime network encompassed "a sprawling network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, convicts, drug traffickers, and even a family of Mormons, who had falsely claimed more than $24 million in cash and prizes," according to the Daily Beast.
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An investment group that U.S. authorities say is run by Russian mobsters and linked to the Russian government sent at least $900,000 to a company owned by a businessman tied to Syria's chemical weapons program, according to financial documents obtained by CNN.
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Court cases against mobsters, gang members and drug dealers are frequently built on the testimonies of criminals out of sheer necessity, said Daniel C. Richman, a Columbia Law School professor and a former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York.
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There are mobsters and corrupt cops on one end, prostitutes on the other end, and people like Vinnie and Candy somewhere between, exerting power and control where they can but beholden to men who can snuff out their ambitions — or possibly their lives.
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The primary beneficiaries are the corrupt and powerful: the mobsters investing in the parlors and the police they're paying off, both downtown and in the 14th Precinct, where patrolmen are hard at work arresting every pimp and prostitute on the street corners.
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Though the 1920s are best known for women's fashion, they impacted men's as well, with the vested three-piece suit—the iconic style of Al Capone and other tabloid mobsters of the era—being the sartorial standard for a night on the town.
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Now it is the focal point of the latest financial scandal to rock the Vatican—potentially the worst since Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, whose buccaneering presidency of the Vatican Bank in the 1970s and 1980s led it to deal with Masons and mobsters.
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With the Kingpin now vanquished by Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) –- attorney by day, roof-hopping crime fighter by night -– Manhattan's west side is rife with a new cast of mobsters who hail from all over the globe (Mexico, Japan, Ireland –- you name it).
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In what sounds suspiciously like a comedic take-off of 2018's Widows, The Kitchen stars Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss as the wives of mobsters who take over their husbands' operation after the husbands are arrested by the FBI.
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James "Whitey" Bulger -- one of America's most notorious mobsters -- was found dead Tuesday in a federal prison where he had just been transferred ... TMZ has confirmed Bulger was just moved to a new facility -- U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia, a maximum-security prison.
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Darkman begins with scientist Peyton Wilder (Neeson) being attacked by a gang of mobsters leaving Wilder horribly injured and nearly dead, but was luckily revived by scientists who inadvertently made him super strong and unable to feel pain, but his face still looked nasty.
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" But if I was there to visit the scene of the famous meeting of New York mobsters that took place in 1957 and someone asked me where I was from, I might reply that I was of Appalachian origins, pronounced "app-a-latch-in.
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RECOMMENDED: When mobsters meet hackers - the new, improved bank heist In addition to the Tikhonova deal, public records show that in 2013 Baevsky transferred ownership of a home and plot of land in a pine forest at Uspenskoe in the Moscow region to Anna Zatsepilina.
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Salvatore Lauria, a co-defendant, co-wrote in a 2003 book that he and Sater sought to reduce their sentences by acting as middlemen for the CIA to buy weapons that fell into the hands of mobsters after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Drawing its title from a nickname for New York's 42nd Street in the grimy old days, the show assiduously introduces its roster of prostitutes, pimps, mobsters and police, whose enforcement efforts, or lack thereof, funnel sex off street corners and into new avenues of exploitation.
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It puts us on the scene at Longchamps, where dapper mobsters dine in style; then down on the Bowery, where hard-luck cases live in sad hotels like the Sunshine; then on to the morning bustle of the markets, where the city greets the dawn.
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In just the past two days Michael Wolff intimated Trump & Nikki Haley are having an affair, a porn star said Trump asked her to spank his bottom with a Forbes Magazine, Glenn Simpson accused Trump of money-laundering & cavorting with Russian mobsters & the government shutdown.
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" He's also skipped over the foundational Punisher story — ex-Marine goes on rampage, wiping out the mobsters, Irish gangsters and bikers he blames for the death of his wife and children — which already formed the backbone of the second season of the Netflix-Marvel "Daredevil.
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The prologue for "West Side Story" (1961) was filmed on the site of the future Lincoln Center, while in "Midnight Cowboy" (20013), Jon Voight's Joe Buck stays at the now-demolished Hotel Claridge in Times Square, which many real-life mobsters also called home.
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According to this account, two days after the painting was taken, Gaetano Badalamenti, then one of the top Sicilian mobsters, asked Mr. Grado, who at the time was the Mafia member in charge of downtown Palermo, to look into the theft of the Caravaggio.
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Jacobson would then hand the pieces off to "a sprawling network of mobsters, psychics, strip-club owners, convicts, drug traffickers, and even a family of Mormons, who had falsely claimed more than $24 million in cash and prizes," according to a 2018 Daily Beast story.
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A conservative watchdog group led by Bannon tried to discredit Trump in the early stages of the 2016 Republican presidential primary by shopping a document alleging that Trump had ties to mobsters, according to conservative sources and a copy of the document reviewed by CNN.
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As a result, Mr. Epstein, 21980, a wealthy financier who owns a private jet, luxury homes around the world and a private island in the Caribbean, will have to spend months in a Manhattan jail that typically holds accused mobsters, drug dealers and terrorists.
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As a result, Mr. Epstein, 21980, a wealthy financier who owns a private jet, luxury homes around the world and a private island in the Caribbean, will have to spend months in a Manhattan jail that typically holds accused mobsters, drug dealers and terrorists.
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This kind of sentiment is powerful enough that it has even worked its way back into film and TV depictions of mobsters: On "The Sopranos," the Italian-American ex-husband of Tony Soprano's therapist constantly condemns and ridicules the Mafia for the stereotypes it perpetuates.
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In his previous job, as federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York (where he indicted no fewer than 150 mobsters, including Anthony ("Tony Ducks") Corallo, whose very nickname boasted how slippery he was), he had set up a unit to investigate Wall Street.
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There's also Jimmy Smits, as a Bronx politico who offers Zeke a route to Manhattan power; ugly disco mobsters; nasty old Ed Koch; some cringe-inducing family melodrama; and the adorable Jaden Smith, playing an elfin graffiti impresario with an Afro twice his size.
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Nicky Scarfo, a Mafia boss who purged two dozen fellow mobsters during his 1980s reign in Philadelphia and South Jersey, milked casino profits in Atlantic City and bribed the city's mayor, died on Saturday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C. He was 87.
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"As much as it pains me to say this, John is one of the most professional and honest prosecutors I've ever had to deal with," said Anthony Cardinale, a Boston attorney who once defended alleged Italian-American mobsters from murder charges brought by Durham.
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" A review by The New Republic in 2017 found that "over the past three decades, at least 13 people with known or alleged links to Russian mobsters or oligarchs have owned, lived in, and even run criminal activities out of Trump Tower and other Trump properties.
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BOSTON – Geriatric ex-New England mobsters, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi and Francis "Cadillac Frank" Salemme, were reunited in court Wednesday when Flemmi took the stand against his old friend and partner in crime who&aposs on trial for the killing of a nightclub owner in 1993.
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For the past three decades, state and federal investigators, as well as some of America's best investigative journalists, have sifted through mountains of real estate records, tax filings, civil lawsuits, criminal cases, and FBI and Interpol reports, unearthing ties between Trump and Russian mobsters like Mogilevich.
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With its stigmata and stabbing shock-cuts, "Black Swan" is "Grand Guignol with pretensions to class," and "Flesh and Bone" ups the ante with incest, self-mutilation, Russian mobsters and fancy-ass pole-dancing, reducing the ballerina to a tormented butterfly pinned by the Male Gaze.
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Looking through Claire's old photos, he learns of a suspicious auto parts shop to which he immediately rushes, looking like a dope as he ambles into a back room filled with what are clearly Russian mobsters and demanding to be told what the heck's going on.
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More recently, Trump has been plagued by explosive revelations and assertions made by former campaign chief and fired White House chief strategist Steve Bannon in from a co-founder of the firm behind an inflammatory dossier about Trump's purported connections to Russian businessmen and mobsters has also .
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Well into his 90s — an age when most mobsters are retired or deceased — Mr. Franzese (pronounced FRANCE-ease) remained a significant underworld figure, identified by the federal authorities as the underboss, or second-in-command, of the Colombo crime family in the New York City area.
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Rather than provide aid to the migrants — many of them from central Africa, Pakistan and Bangladesh — much of the money went to fund a host of projects, either for the amusement of the mobsters and their business associates, or to allow them to profit still further.
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Mr. Fiato, like some of Italy's leading right-wing politicians, argues that the aid ships become a magnet for more immigration, and that they end up benefiting smugglers and mobsters who exploit reception centers, all the while costing more lives by drawing more migrants into the water.
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Based on a graphic novel series, The Kitchen has a plot that sounds like the cousin of 2018's Widows: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss play the wives of mobsters, who take over their husbands' operation after the husbands are arrested by the FBI.
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In that time, he navigated the New York City fiscal crisis of the 0003s, the crime boom of the '2000s and '290s and the post 235/11 era in the 2000s, all the while racking up high-profile prosecutions of celebrities, mobsters, terrorists, money launderers and Wall Street fraudsters.
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And although the convict told me soon after his indictment over two years ago that he wasn't afraid of going to prison because it would be "like dorms," he's spent the past six months in the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, presumably hanging out with suspected terrorists and mobsters.
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In 1993, he went to prison for fifteen months after stabbing a man in the face with the stem of a broken margarita glass during a barroom confrontation; and in 22016 he pleaded guilty for his role in a forty-million-dollar stock-fraud scheme carried out with mobsters.
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The no-show job has long played a central role in the annals of crime and corruption in New York, offering an efficient way for crooked politicians, union officials, mobsters and all manner of miscreants to funnel kickbacks and bribes to friends, family members, business associates and even themselves.
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But due to Riina's savagery, hundreds of mobsters broke their code of silence in the 19923s and 1990s and testified against him, allowing magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino to uncover the long-hidden secrets of Cosa Nostra and prosecute its leaders for the crimes of its soldiers.
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In an indictment issued on Friday, in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, prosecutors said that Mr. Luthmann joined forces with a blind man and two reputed mobsters to pack shipping containers with "cheap filler material" and fraudulently sell them to a group of local businesses as scrap metal.
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The case in Calabria may be just the most glaring example of how the misery of others has provided ripe opportunity for mobsters and corrupt officials as Italy struggles to keep up with an unceasing flow of migrants and refugees — more than 93,000 so far this year alone.
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"A group of people doing their best to act like a group of mobsters, shaking down a pizzeria owner, will now face a steep price for what they described as 'kinda fun,'" said William F. Sweeney Jr. of the FBI New York field office, who announced the guilty plea.
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" For all its salacious content, Eatwell's historical crime study is an expansive work that delves into the broader culture of postwar Los Angeles, "a city of bright lights and darker shadows, where cops fraternized with mobsters and girls sold themselves for the promise of a bit part in a movie.
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As an FBI agent who served a quarter-century in the business of coercing and impelling cooperation of mobsters and gangbangers and terrorists, reminding someone that they will never see the light of day from their prison cell again unless they cooperate, may be legally defined as "psychological pain," no?
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MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace compared Trump's behaviour to that seen in The Sopranos, saying the president "sought to run U.S. foreign policy the way Tony Soprano ran his crime family," while other commentators referred to The Godfather's Don Corleone, mob bosses, mobsters, and the Mafia in general when discussing Trump's actions.
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To imply that the Chinese American culture of The Farewell is any less American than the Italian American mobsters of The Irishman by virtue of its spoken language is a disservice to the breadth of cultures across the United States, the immigrants, and the people who make up the in-between.
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VICE News and Motherboard first reported in April that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) had obtained BlackBerry's global encryption key, and had used it to read millions of messages sent between seven men accused of murder, and a litany of other alleged mobsters who are accused of drug trafficking, kidnapping, and arson.
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In the '50s, the attacks on Batman and other comics really get up to a fever pitch, and it's not surprising that during the censorship movement of the Comics Code Authority, suddenly he's no longer chasing mobsters and villains; he's going after space aliens or giant mechanical monsters and things like that.
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That's when the longtime lawyer for the Trump Organization—a man we have since learned made a career out of proximity to Russian mobsters and may have been tied to money laundering involving all-cash real estate deals—emerged as the colorful, curse-prone fixer for Trump and his race-baiting campaign.
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The author got a lot of things right: the subtlety of communication between Sicilians in particular and Italians in general; the incorporation, often reluctant, of mobsters from other ethnic backgrounds into the American Mafia; and, above all, Cosa Nostra's usurpation of responsibilities that belong to the state, including the dispensing of justice.
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" Stasio writes: For all its salacious content, Eatwell's historical crime study is an expansive work that delves into the broader culture of postwar Los Angeles, "a city of bright lights and darker shadows, where cops fraternized with mobsters and girls sold themselves for the promise of a bit part in a movie.
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Anyone familiar with detective novels or noir cinema knows exactly what that phrase means: smoke-filled nightclubs, back-alley gambling houses and dark, seedy opium dens, all frequented by a motley assortment of Chinese mobsters, White Russian émigrés, fugitive criminals of all nations and at least one gorgeous femme fatale with a past.
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YOU GOT THE PROVINCIAL GUYS, LIKE, MOBSTERS, AND YOU GOT TO GET VIGOROOUS TO GET THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE, THEN THEY STEAL YOUR TECHNOLOGY AND PROPERTY RIGHTS LOOK, THAT'S GOT TO CHANGE AD IF MR TRUMP CARRIES THAT FORWARD I CANNOT CRITICIZE THAT, ALL MY FREE TRADE FRIENDS CAN'T CRITICIZE THAT.
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Instead of the fat, pimply, basement-dwelling loser portrayed in the book, Technical Boy is now a slick, spoiled Silicon Valley one-percenter brat with the personality of a Nazi Twitter troll (not to mention the effectiveness—his henchmen become literal lynch-mobsters in the premiere, legitimizing online harassment as having real-world consequences).
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The Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act is a US sanctions law targeting Russian government officials and mobsters said to have defrauded Russian taxpayers a decade ago to the tune of $230 million, some of which, the US government alleges, wound up in Prevezon's coffers and from there in pricey apartments in Manhattan.
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Now, as Mr. Trump faces his own mushrooming legal troubles, he has taken to using a vocabulary that sounds uncannily like that of Mr. Gotti and his fellow mobsters in the waning days of organized crime, when ambitious prosecutors like Rudolph W. Giuliani tried to turn witnesses against their bosses to win racketeering convictions.
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They were talking about Russians almost as if they were mobsters, like that they had lost the Cold War, from a military perspective and economic perspective, and here was cyber attacks and these kinds of things were the way in in order to try to promote these, promote the things they had lost previously.
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When things get hot in Los Angeles, a smart girlfriend of one of the mobsters power-packs, grabbing money first, then clothes, shoes, birth-control pills, sunglasses, "and a bunch of bras and underpants from Victoria's Secret," tossing it all in the back of her boyfriend's Cadillac Escalade before taking off for Sin City.
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Washington (CNN)Felix Sater -- the Trump Organization contact who pushed for a Moscow development project and Mueller investigation witness -- was a decade ago a federal government informant to "a depth and breadth rarely seen" against Russian and American mobsters, fraudsters, cyber-criminals and even Osama bin Laden, according to newly unsealed court filings on Friday.
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" The 1985-1987 Pizza Connection trial of Sicilian mobsters accused of running a billion-dollar heroin pipeline through corner pizzerias became the longest criminal jury trial in federal court and is represented in the exhibit with Ms. Kenny's watercolor and pen sketch of Judge Pierre N. Leval, battling laryngitis, holding up a sign saying "Overruled.
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As recently as 2002, when Art Basel Miami Beach was inaugurated, this neighborhood, bound by Interstate 95 to the east, was considered desolate and sketchy, the kind of place where, legend had it, mobsters were dispatched before their bodies were chopped in half and ditched in the Everglades for alligators to do their work.
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The paintings were found wrapped in cloth inside a safe in a country house south of Naples that prosecutors said belonged to Raffaele Imperiale, a 41-year-old businessman accused in January of running an international cocaine trafficking ring together with high-ranking mobsters from a clan made famous in the 13 film "Gomorra".
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Cohen, who went from a wannabe tough guy rubbing elbows with Russian mobsters and threatening reporters to flipping on his old boss and begging forgiveness for falling down a "a path of darkness," previously pleaded guilty to a bevy of federal offenses: violations of campaign-finance law, tax evasion, deception in dealings with a bank, and lying to Congress.
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Trump, who lives in gilded penthouses and palaces, who flies in planes and helicopters emblazoned with his name, who does business with mobsters, campaigned in 2016 by saying that he spoke for the working man, that he alone heard them and felt their anger, and by branding Hillary Clinton an "élitist," out of touch with her country.
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For a few years now, Motherboard has reported on the rise of remotely-piloted drug smuggling—we've seen various hacked and homemade drones used by drug cartels to deliver cocaine over the Mexico-US border, by over-the-wall accomplices dropping contraband to inmates in prisons from Australia to Canada, and by Lithuanian mobsters slipping cigarettes into Russia.
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According to State Department cables written at the American Embassy in Kiev and later released by WikiLeaks, the Party of Regions, with Mr. Manafort's help, had been "working to change its image from that of a haven for mobsters into that of a legitimate political party," the American ambassador at the time, John E. Herbst, wrote.
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A terrorist plot to hit New York City is the only threat that would make confederates out of warring mobsters like Uncle Chen, who runs the Chinese street gangs in Flushing; Little Maria, who keeps the Dominican heroin trade cooking; Alonzo, who heads up the black gangs in Brooklyn; and Menachem (Rebbe) Stone, who oversees the Orthodox Jewish underworld.
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When his father, Mario, served as governor of New York in the 1980s and '90s — when mobsters still appeared on the front pages of tabloids, corrupted and murdered one another on crowded streets — he labored to distance himself from false associations with organized crime, avoiding the word "Mafia" altogether and nearly claiming that it didn't truly exist.
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Denzel Washington, starring as retired CIA black ops operative Robert McCall (though his character's name is about as important as Liam Neeson's in Taken, which, to wit, I have forgotten), destroys a crew of gun-toting Russian mobsters in the Home Depot knockoff "Home Mart," taking them down one by one with all manner of home improvement tools.
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Corresponding with the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Russo has released Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Movies and the Mob, a memoir about his life which details his associations with infamous mobsters like Frank Costello, Carlo Gambino, and Carlos Marcello, and Hollywood celebrities like Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, and Francis Ford Coppola.
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Over the next 40 minutes, you'll see a little girl (Bryce Lorenzo) get kidnapped by an evil Santa Claus; two cartoon horses farting rainbows into each other; more blood-soaked mobsters than you can count; and an angel giving a blowjob to a prawn (okay, a prostitute dressed as an angel giving a blowjob to a man dressed as a prawn, but still).
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Those who do know about the time Capone spent in the City of Brotherly Love probably accept the commonly held myth that the mob boss, feeling the heat from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre he had engineered on the North Side of Chicago, set up his own arrest to remove himself from the public eye and the possibility of retaliation from other mobsters.
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Prosecutions of Mr. Bulger and his accomplice Stephen (the Rifleman) Flemmi uncovered a relationship with F.B.I. agents, a retired Massachusetts state trooper and others, in which the mobsters exchanged cases of wine, a stolen two-carat diamond ring, and money for "the keys to the kingdom of all organized crime information in Boston," Mr. Durham told the college audience last year.
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Little by little, I pieced together the epic, confounding, overstuffed story: It involved a tortured man named Al Simmons, caught in the middle of a cold war between heaven and hell, smack dab in a gritty New York City filled with demented mobsters and criminals, a creepy ice cream-selling pedophile, and a demon that takes the form of a rundown version of Pennywise.
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The best of it were the scenes played for pure absurdity when you wonder whether the genius is really the juxtaposition of such iconic veterans, mellowed and rounded by a lifetime's experience of telling stories, playing at being young mobsters again but with the lived excess, in brains, bones and bellies, to send up and show up characters wearing digital masks of their younger selves.
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Skepticism of Russiagate has abated as new details emerge almost daily, most of which are deeply informed by sources within the US. To be sure, for years reporters in Russia have risked their lives and freedom to document what is happening there — how a network of oligarchs, mobsters, and state institutions have worked to spread disinformation across the world and to wage war against and otherwise destabilize Russia's neighbors.
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A conservative group led by Stephen Bannon reportedly shopped around a document in 85033 linking President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE to mobsters in an attempt to undermine his campaign, CNN reported Monday.
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It is where the daughter of one of the mobsters made famous in the 1997 film "Donnie Brasco" is up for a job; where the nephew of another famous mobster pulled down more than $400,20143 in a single year because he was almost never off the clock, not even when he was at home sleeping; where three consecutive presidents of a Newark longshoremen's union were convicted of extortion.
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" In the meantime, channel surfing carries the risk of glimpsing at least one more Gotti family nemesis: Rudolph Giuliani, so effective at flipping mobsters during his time as United States Attorney for the Southern District that his office was nicknamed the "House of Pancakes," is now a regular combatant on cable news, where he says things like "Even if he did do it, it wouldn't be a crime.
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