Organized Crime in Chicago: Hearing Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, March 4, 1983U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983 - 224 pages |
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Page 145 - Control of business concerns has usually been acquired through one of four methods: (1) investing concealed profits acquired from gambling and other illegal activities; (2) accepting business interests in payment of the owner's gambling debts; (3) foreclosing on usurious loans : and (4) using various forms of extortion.
Page 101 - God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Page 140 - It ranges from lotteries, such as "numbers" or "bolita," to off-track horse betting, bets on sporting events, large dice games and illegal casinos. In large cities where organized criminal groups exist, very few of the gambling operators are independent of a large organization.
Page 140 - The profits that eventually accrue to organization leaders move through channels so complex that even persons who work in the betting operation do not know or cannot prove the identity of the leader. Increasing use of the telephone for lottery and sports betting has facilitated systems in which the bookmaker may not know the identity of the second-echelon person to whom he calls in the day's bets. Organization not only creates greater efficiency and enlarges...
Page 77 - Exhibit No. 3" for reference and may be found in the files of the subcommittee.) Mr.
Page 144 - ... over matters affecting the everyday life of each citizen. Contrast, for example, the way governmental action in contract procurement or zoning functions today with the way it functioned only a few years ago. The potential harm of corruption is greater today if only because the scope of governmental activity is greater.
Page 144 - The potential harm of corruption is greater today if only because the scope of governmental activity is greater. In different places at different times, organized crime has corrupted police officials, prosecutors, legislators, judges, regulatory agency officials, mayors, councilmen, and other public officials, whose legitimate exercise of duties would block organized crime and whose illegal exercise of duties helps it.
Page 128 - State, who reasonably determines that — (a) an emergency situation exists with respect to conspiratorial activities threatening the national security interest...
Page 154 - I am also a member of the National Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, which...
Page 205 - I am a member of the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor Management Field.