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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 112: What do you think the captain is going to say if we go off the reservation on his dime?at on someone’s dime (adv.) under dime, n.
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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