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When Corruption Was King 50: I always had a gambling streak. [...] I never saw the harm in a little action.at action, n.
When Corruption Was King 50: I always had a gambling streak. [...] I never saw the harm in a little action. When Corruption Was King 225: ‘Maybe you are a beefer,’ he said. ‘Huh?’ I said. ‘It’s possible,’ he said. Better men than you have gone down that drain, haven’t they?’.at beefer (n.) under beef, v.1
When Corruption Was King 91: ‘You always thought that I was a bust-out and a loser [...] but look at this [i.e. a boxful of cash].at bust-out, n.3
When Corruption Was King 235: [of coupt judges] We’re gonna have to take care of Scotillo and Buck now’.at take care of, v.
When Corruption Was King 83: The bookies attracted other shooters in the underground economy—the guys who owned the chop shops and the car thieves who supplied them.at chop-shop (n.) under chop, v.2
When Corruption Was King 33: My friends and I decided to put on our own mixers[...] Some guys used to go out and bring back beer on their own nickel.at on someone’s dime (adv.) under dime, n.
When Corruption Was King 72: In my mind, I didn’t even consider these little payments as corruption. [...]. That wasn’t the only way to get funny with these people. [...] I could always help a judge work out a nice deal with them.at get funny with (v.) under funny, adj.2
When Corruption Was King 85: A crew could ‘grab’ an independent criminal, no matter where he was, and as long as they grabbed him first, they could keep him and a piece of his action.at grab, v.
When Corruption Was King 197: I put together a list of all the judges I had paid off—either ‘hand to hand’ or through a conduit.at hand-to-hand, adj.
When Corruption Was King 174: [The judge] might welcome a plea to get out from under this heater case.at heater case (n.) under heater, n.
When Corruption Was King 50: [T]he way I was playing with Ricky, there was no way I could lose. I was only concerned that he would come up lame paying off his losing bets.at lame, adj.
When Corruption Was King 109: A few other Mob lardheads were ‘elected’ alderman [...] but the real reins of power passed to Pat Marcy.at lardhead, n.
When Corruption Was King 268: He was a crime boss on the level of Marco D’Amico. They had been trying to make him for years.at make, v.
When Corruption Was King 103: [in context of paying long-standing debts] Ricky [...] was always coming up lame. I told him I wouldn’t take any action until we straightened out.at straighten out, v.
When Corruption Was King 83: We started busy and only got busier. [...]. Greco’s was always quite a scene.at scene, n.
When Corruption Was King 83: The bookies attracted other shooters in the underground econom — the guys who owned the chop shops and the car thieves who supplied them.at shooter, n.1
When Corruption Was King 45: When I rode the squad by myself, I [...] made some unbelievable arrests.at squad, n.
When Corruption Was King 103: ‘Just let me play one more time and we’ll get straight when he gets back next week’.at get straight (v.) under straight, adj.2
When Corruption Was King 84: The five Mafia groups got along very well [...] If you were doing anything illegal, and lived within a few hundred miles of Chicago, they wanted. apiece of it—what they called street tax.at street tax (n.) under street, adj.
When Corruption Was King 113: He took along bags of ‘street money’ for the party workers. Each voter got five dollars to sign for a punch card ballot and then hand it over to the precinct captain in the polling place.at street money (n.) under street, adj.
When Corruption Was King 9: ‘[T]hey got no case here. I could take this to a jury and walk him.’.at walk, v.
When Corruption Was King 252: [T]wo cars. One would be the ‘work’ car, which was probably stolen. They would drive that to the house and then ditch it after the robbery.at work, n.
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