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syndicate and board
Buchalter, in particular, and Joe Adonis occasionally, gave the outfit its orders from the board of directors of the syndicate.
As a syndicate board member, Adonis, along with Buchalter, may have been responsible for assigning some murder contracts to Murder Inc.
In May 1929, he convinced the rest of the board to issue a writ against the syndicate and Oppenheimer, alleging fraudulent conspiracy, and began instructing Hastings.

syndicate and Schultz
Probably their most well known victim was Dutch Schultz, who had openly defied the syndicate.
Schultz was murdered in 1935, which was arranged by Lucky Luciano and the national crime syndicate.

syndicate and ;
Most newspaper comic strips are syndicated ; a syndicate hires people to write and draw a strip and then distributes it to many newspapers for a fee.
In, Greenberg and Veeck teamed up for a second time when their syndicate purchased the Chicago White Sox ; Veeck served as team president with Greenberg as vice president and general manager.
( Brewster, Chiswell, and Herringman were members of the six-man syndicate that published the third Ben Jonson folio in 1692 ; Herringman was one of three stationers who issued the second Beaumont and Fletcher folio in 1679.
As with all syndicate ghostwriters, Benson was paid a flat fee of $ 125 to $ 250 for each Stratemeyer-outlined text ; the equivalent of three month's pay for a newspaper reporter at that time.
Vincent Mangano had mysteriously disappeared in 1951 ; by nearly all accounts he'd been murdered by Albert Anastasia, one of the most feared men in the syndicate.
; Wallenquist Organization: A powerful crime syndicate led by Herr Wallenquist, a mysterious crime lord with a broad range of criminal enterprises to his name.
Rupert put an initial investment of £ 270 of his own money into a proposal for a fresh expedition and set about raising more ; despite setbacks, including the Great Fire of London, by 1667 he had formed a private syndicate and leased the Eaglet from the King for the expedition.
Murder, Inc. ( or Murder Incorporated or the Brownsville Boys ; known in syndicate circles as The Combination ) was the name given by the press to organized crime groups in the 1930s through the 1940s that acted as the " enforcement arm " of the American Mafia and Jewish Mafia, the early organized crime groups in New York and elsewhere.
The syndicate desired to have a comic strip featuring the character ; they had asked Bill Watterson to incorporate the character into Calvin and Hobbes, but Watterson refused.
The syndicate and Keung work out the diamonds are in the boy's wheelchair, and the handover is botched after Nancy and Tony are held hostage by the syndicate ; the diamonds are lost after the syndicate uses towtrucks to pull the supermarket apart and the diamonds are spilled as Keung is in the building and knocked over.
Finally, on July 12, 1930, a Brooklyn-based syndicate headed by Bill Dwyer bought the Triangles ; the franchise moved to Brooklyn and was renamed the Brooklyn Dodgers.
They had three children, Alfred, Jr., a pioneering investor, two-time winner of the Bermuda Race and head of the winning America's Cup syndicate in 1977 ; Henry, head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Farnsworth, a physician and professor at Brandeis ( Farnsworth's grandson was Reed Hastings, co-founder of Netflix ).
Galt infiltrates " the syndicate " in his native Central City to bring down organized crime from within ; to the underworld, he becomes known as the Whisperer.
New York City's leading crime syndicate the Combine send Hex after their greatest enemy, the Batman, by framing him for Stiletta's murder ; the two men fight and nearly kill each other.
" The Auditorium was built for a syndicate of businessmen to house a large civic opera house ; to provide an economic base it was decided to wrap the auditorium with a hotel and office block.
By 1875, the Whiskey Ring had grown into a nationwide criminal syndicate that included whiskey distillers, brokers, and government officials ; making enormous profits from the sale of untaxed whiskey.
androids ; ironically, she soon afterward worked with both Daredevil and Punisher against the European crime syndicate managed by the Brothers Grace.
Rather than capitulate, the manufacturers formed " the Shuttle Club ", a syndicate which paid the costs of any member brought to court ; their strategy of patent piracy and mutual indeminification nearly bankrupted Kay.
The syndicate comprised Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster-Row ; F. C. and J. Rivington, publisher to the SPCK ( publishers of the British Critic ); A. Strahan, King's Printer ; and 24 smaller concerns.
Appointed as an Additional Judge of the High Court of Sindh on 18 March, 1978 ; appointed as a Judge of the Sindh High Court on 17 March, 1980 ; nominated by the Chief Justice of Sindh High Court on the syndicate N. E. D.

syndicate and they
On 7 April 2000, Delhi police revealed they had a recording of a conversation between Cronje and Sanjay Chawla, a representative of an Indian betting syndicate, over match-fixing allegations.
The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows for the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because he did not actually do it.
Ironically, Kobe, the home city of the largest yakuza syndicate Yamaguchi-gumi, is one of the safest cities in Japan, because " cheap " criminals such as street gangs and thugs are afraid to attract the yakuza's attention so they avoid being active in the city.
In May 1955, he led VNA forces in the Battle of Saigon, when they dismantled the private army of the Bình Xuyên crime syndicate in urban warfare in the district of Chợ Lớn.
In 1882 he became a partner, with Walter Russell Hall and Thomas Skarratt Hall, in a syndicate with Thomas, Frederick and Edwin Morgan when they opened a mine on Ironstone Mountain ( later renamed Mount Morgan ), south of Rockhampton.
What the gang did not know was that the syndicate had no intention of paying because they wanted to deter future thefts.
However, a potential drawback for content creators is that they can lose control over the presentation of their content when they syndicate it to other parties.
Plans changed eventually and they decided to go with a more local approach ( though REV105 did syndicate a show, Spin Radio for a short time ).
A syndicate was formed, Osborne refined the product and he and Macfarlane went to England to form the British & African Cereal Company, Ltd., which they registered in London in 1932, as a Private Company, with the proprietor shown as Weetabix Limited of Weetabix Mills, Burton Latimer, Kettering.
At that time, he suggested to top New York City-based crime lords such as Lucky Luciano that they create one crime syndicate encompassing all the smaller gangs that were constantly at each other's throats.
The Maceo crime syndicate, which ran Galveston at that time, created casino districts in Kemah and other areas of Galveston County ( though they were shut down in the mid-20th century ).
A syndicate of banks ( the lead managers ) underwrite the transaction, which means they have taken on the risk of distributing the securities.
Conan's investigation of the Black Organization leads him to discover the American FBI's existence in Japan, as they are also investigating the syndicate.
To correct this, the syndicate were forced to reduce the flow of diamonds from British Guiana, which they did by getting Oppenheimer to reduce the price of Guianan diamonds to the point where the company output dropped from a month to less than per month.
This was always done through front men they chose to oversee the casino skim, usually Jewish associates or syndicate money men such as Morris " Moe " Dalitz and Joseph " Doc " Stacher.
In 1860, over his own initials " G. A. S .," he began writing " Echoes of the Week " for the Illustrated London News, and continued to do so till 1886, when they were continued in a syndicate of weekly newspapers almost to his death.
The court explained, “ Therefore, the accused can never be charged of taking part in the commission of syndicated estafa not only because they are not part of a syndicate as contemplated by law in PD 1689, but more so, because there was absolutely no estafa committed .”
As the IM ( or “ bank book ,” in traditional market lingo ) is being prepared, the syndicate desk will solicit informal feedback from potential investors on what their appetite for the deal will be and at what price they are willing to invest.
Sometimes they combine the services of a news agency and a news syndicate.
Angham performed for the first time in public during Cairo's Radio syndicate ceremony because they were looking for new voices to artistically adopt them.
Instead, they drop into the clutches of an international syndicate offering a first-hand torturing and killing experience to the sadistic pleasure of rich tourists.
The game follows the three characters as they are forced to investigate three crimes performed by a new Virtua City's crime syndicate, the ECM.

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