He won election as the Kings County District Attorney in 1939 and his prosecution of the organized crime syndicate known as Murder, Inc. made him a national celebrity.

Further improvements were made to the river above Evesham from 1664 by a syndicate led by Andrew Yarranton.

Although Terry and the Pirates had made Caniff famous, the strip was owned by the syndicate, which was not uncommon at the time.

General de Pellieux, who had been made to believe by a series of forgeries that Picquart had for some time been the moving spirit of the " syndicate ," treated him more as an accused than as a witness.

A 2001 comparison of short-term lending rates charged by the Chicago Outfit organized crime syndicate and payday lenders in California revealed that, depending on when a payday loan was paid back by a borrower ( generally 1 – 14 days ), the interest rate charged for a payday loan could be considerably higher than the interest rate of a similar loan made by the organized crime syndicate.

In 1985, Pjetër made his film debut as a member of a syndicate gang in the action movie Los Angeles Streetfighter.

In 1939, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, head of the French newly-established Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), arranged for the UMHK to provide his organization 5 tonnes of uranium oxide, technical assistance with the construction of a reactor and a million francs, in exchange for having all discoveries made by the CNRS patented by a syndicate, with profits shared between the CNRS and the UMHK.

In 2011 it was reported that Adler had made investments in a range of energy and retail assets ; while in 2012 it was reported he was associated with a Sydney office property syndicate.

The syndication of debt among banks made recovery impractical as a fund intending to litigate had to buy out the entire syndicate of holders or risk having the proceeds of litigation attached pursuant to sharing clauses in the loan agreements.

The name ' Arwon ,' was made from reversing the word Nowra, a town in New South Wales where one of the syndicate that owned him lived.

Benson's organization infiltrated into very high levels of the government, and syndicate members in governmental positions as well as members of congress made the group's schemes possible.

Wu Ling was supposed to be met by one of the syndicate company directors, Mr Pearson, in Southampton but his train there was delayed with the result that Wu Ling made his own way to London where he booked into the Hotel Russell Square and telephoned the company to say that he would see them the next day.

The connections he thus established aided his efforts in forming in 1789 a syndicate with Nathaniel Gorham.

At the US Open the players formed their own syndicate, the Association of Tennis Professionals ( ATP ), through the efforts of Jack Kramer, Donald Dell, and Cliff Drysdale.

When a bond issue is underwritten, one or more securities firms or banks, forming a syndicate, buy the entire issue of bonds from the issuer and re-sell them to investors.

They are entitled to syndicate the loan or bond issue, and may be referred to as the " lead underwriter ".

The word syndicate comes from the French word syndicat which means trade union ( syndic meaning administrator ), from the Latin word syndicus which in turn comes from the Greek word σύνδικος ( syndikos ) which means caretaker of an issue, compare to ombudsman or representative.

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.

Jack undercuts a rival bank and wins the IPO, but as the investment syndicate falls through, Gardner Ross finds itself responsible for most of the underwriting of the issue, and if the sale goes poorly, faces the loss of all of its investment capital.

When a public offering trades below its offering price, the offering is said to have " broke issue " or " broke syndicate bid ".

On the other hand, if the price of the offering falls below the original offer price, naked short positions gives the syndicate greater power to exert upward pressure on the issue than the Greenshoe alone, and has the added benefit of being profitable to the underwriting syndicate.

Funding for the Review comes primarily from the Collegiate Network, a syndicate of conservative campus newspapers funded by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

The 1967 challenge cost $ 2 million and was funded by an Australian syndicate headed by Emile Christenson and represented the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron.

Only five years later, Mileti's group sold the team for $ 11 million to a syndicate headed by trucking magnate Steve O ' Neill and including former general manager and owner Gabe Paul.

The resourceful Weeghman formed a syndicate including the chewing gum manufacturer William Wrigley Jr. to buy the Chicago Cubs from Charles P. Taft for about $ 500, 000.

The previous landowners, a sporting syndicate, sold the assets of the estate including Benbecula, South Uist and Eriskay for £ 4. 5 million to a community-owned organisation known as Stòras Uibhist which was set up to purchase the land and to manage it in perpetuity.

Thirdly, during the decade a number of scandals had come to light, including the collapse of the Sass syndicate, which had highlighted both the lack of regulation and the legal inability of the Council to manage the Society.

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.

The effects on the characters of L ' argent are disastrous, including complete ruin, suicide, and exile, though some of Saccard's syndicate members escape and Gundermann experiences a windfall.

John Hawkins formed a syndicate of wealthy merchants to invest in trade, including that of slaves.

The previous landowners, a sporting syndicate, sold the assets of the estate including Benbecula, South Uist and Eriskay for £ 4. 5 million to a community-owned organisation known as Stòras Uibhist which was set up to purchase the land and to manage it in perpetuity.

A syndicate of investors ( again, close friends of Eaton, including Harrison Gray Otis ) bought up large tracts of land in the San Fernando Valley with this inside information.

It was not until 1873 that a bridge was built by a syndicate of City Island businessman including G. W.

The most well known historical use of this involves the Yakuza of Japan, an organized crime syndicate whose members perform several notable types of body modification, including full body irezumi tattooing and Yubitsume, the amputation of finger joints in penance to their superiors.

After the death of Butler's wife, Ann, in 1886, a syndicate of businessmen, including Alexander Forrest and George Leake, persuaded Butler's children to sell the land.

In 1971, a Japanese syndicate headed by Yohachiro Iwasaki acquired hundreds of thousands of hectares of beachfront land including wetlands near Farnborough to build a resort.

He was the leading member of the syndicate which purchased and partly resold the famous Orleans Collection of old master paintings in 1798 ( including Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto ), and most of his purchases are still held by the Egerton family.

He began by forming the Mizner Development Corporation, a syndicate of prominent investors including Rodman Wanamaker, Paris Singer, Irving Berlin, William Kissam Vanderbilt II, Elizabeth Arden, Jesse Livermore, Clarence H. Geist, and T. Coleman du Pont as chairman.

The building was financed by a syndicate of family friends including members of the Palmer, Armour, Swift, McCormick families and the hotel's architects, Benjamin Marshall and Charles Fox.

At its peak, the syndicate offered other newspapers some 60 to 75 features, including editorial cartoonist Herblock and commentaries by David Horowitz, Stanley Karnow and others.

They formed a syndicate including steelmakers Andrew Carnegie, Henry Oliver, Henry Clay Frick, Pennsylvania career politician J. Donald Cameron, and — paradoxically, given Gowen's longstanding litigious hostility to Standard Oil — John D. and William Rockefeller.

After a period of operating from Sydney, Australia, the company received an infusion of cash from a syndicate of venture capital funds ( including JAFCO and eEcentury Partners ).

Siho Lee-( 16 ) Siho lives a very complicated life: he lives alone, supports himself, his brother is a violent thug who beats him up and wrecks his gas station ( Siho's only source of income ), his father is the head of a large crime syndicate and at school most people are afraid of him ( including the teachers ) because of his reputation as a ' bad boy '.

In 1907 the syndicate acquired several railroad companies, including the George's Creek and Cumberland Railroad ( GC & C ), which had built a line west through the Cumberland Narrows, and then south to Lonaconing, Maryland.

The proposal was a reaction to negotiations between a Japanese syndicate and Mexico for the purchase of a considerable portion of Baja California including a harbor considered to be of strategic value, Magdalena Bay.

He sold the Reds to a syndicate led by Cincinnati newspaper publisher Francis L. Dale ( and including William DeWitt Jr .) during the 1966 campaign.

In 1976, when numerous newspapers nationally including the Madison Capital Times declined to run a series of Gary Trudeau's " Doonesbury " comic strips because of their controversial content, The Badger Herald negotiated with the syndicate and was the only paper regionally to print the cartoons.