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Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry

Final Report to Governor Mario M. Cuomo

By: New York State Organized Crime Task Force,Ronald Goldstock

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Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry

Final Report to Governor Mario M. Cuomo

By: New York State Organized Crime Task Force,Ronald Goldstock

This book, Corruption and Racketeering In The New York City Construction Industry: The Final Report of the New York State Organized Task Force, lays out in close and compelling detail the intricate patterns of currupt activities and relationships that for the better part of a century have characterized business as usual in the construction industry in America's largest metropolis. The book is the end product of more than five years' worth of investigation, prosecutions, and research by the New York State Organized Crime Task Force, a unique agency that has set a national example for marrying law enforcement initiatives with comprehensive and exhausting analysis of the causes and dynamics of industrial racketeering. This is a sobering analysis of the construction industry , one of New York City's largest industries, and in effect, one of the city's most significant economic sectors. In any given year during the 1980s, billions of dollars of construction were being carried out at any one time. The industry regularly employs more than 100,000 people in the city, involving some one hundred union locals and many hundreds of general and specialty contractors as well as a large number of architects, engineers, and materials suppliers. The book shows—in great and provocative detail—how organized extortion, bribery illegal cartels, and bid rigging characterize construction in the city. The basis for much of this crim is labor racketeering, controlled or orchestrated by organized crime. It reveals how this world of corruption affects not only the private sector but the city's vast public works program, and it spells out the ways in which both organized crime and official corruption each sustain the dynamics of ongoing criminality. Wrong-doing on a massive scale is documented at length. But this book is more than a recitation of extensive and systematic criminality. The book recommends a number of plausible options for genuine reform. Necessarily these are profound and radical solutions, but everyone who reads this book will conclude that only profound and radical solutions could hope to solve such an entrenched and intractable crime problem.

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0814730345

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The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution

By: Ronald F. Wright,Kay L. Levine,Russell M. Gold

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The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution

By: Ronald F. Wright,Kay L. Levine,Russell M. Gold

The power of the modern prosecutor arises from several features of the criminal justice landscape: widespread use of law and order political rhetoric and heightened fear of crime among voters; legislatures' embrace of extreme sentencing ranges to respond to such concerns; and the uncertain or limited accountability of prosecutors to the electorate, the bar, or other political and professional constituencies. The convergence of these trends has transformed prosecution into an indispensable field of study. This volume brings together the work of leading international scholars across criminology, sociology, political science, and law - along with contributions from reform-minded practitioners - to examine a variety of issues in prosecutorial behaviour and the institutional structures that frame their behavior. The Handbook connects the dots among existing theoretical and empirical research related to prosecutors. Major sections of the volume cover (1) prosecutor performance during distinct phases of a criminal case, (2) the features of the prosecutor's environment, both inside the office and external to the office, that influence the choices of individual prosecutors and office leaders, and (3) prosecutorial strategies and priorities when dealing with specialized types of crimes, victims, and defendants. Taken together, the chapters in this volume identify the founding texts, discuss leading theoretical and methodological approaches, explain the scope of unresolved issues, and preview where this field is headed. The volume provides a bottom-up view of an important new scholarly field.

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Oxford University Press

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0190905441

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9780190905446

The Bullet or the Bribe

Taking Down Colombia's Cali Drug Cartel

By: Ronald Chepesiuk

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The Bullet or the Bribe

Taking Down Colombia's Cali Drug Cartel

By: Ronald Chepesiuk

For more than 20 years, the Cali cartel saturated U.S. streets with cocaine, ruining neighborhoods and lives while reaping millions in cash. Efforts to combat the influx of drugs from Colombia were often stymied by the careful organization and execution of the drug trade. Through the use of bribery, terrorist structures, and legitimate business practices, the cartel rose to become a serious threat to Colombian society's fragile stability, while providing over 70% of the world's cocaine to various markets. It took more than two decades and a global effort, spearheaded by U.S. law enforcement, to topple this notorious criminal organization. The rise and fall of one of Colombia's most notorious drug cartels is a story of how organized crime can function at the most sophisticated levels, yet still be taken down by the very forces it seeks to evade. This book vividly examines the Cali Cartel, providing unique insight into the history of international trafficking, organized crime, and U.S. drug policy. Relying on first hand accounts, interviews, and DEA records, Chepesiuk brings the story to life, illustrating how drug traffickers operate and why they are so difficult to stop. In detailing law enforcement's biggest takedown, this book describes how such transnational criminal organizations must be dismantled, and why drug trafficking continues to be an important problem in the United States. The fall of the cartel also provides lessons for law enforcement efforts to combat terrorists and other formidable criminal organizations.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313015546

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9780313015540

Immigration Law and Procedure: Business Immigration Module

By: Charles Gordon,Stanley Mailman,Stephen Yale-Loehr,Ronald Y. Wada

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Immigration Law and Procedure: Business Immigration Module

By: Charles Gordon,Stanley Mailman,Stephen Yale-Loehr,Ronald Y. Wada

This module of Immigration Law & Procedure contains the chapters that are key to immigration attorneys whose practice encompasses: temporary and permanent hiring of foreign nationals, intracompany transferees, treaty traders and investors, foreign national business investors,and business visitors.

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LexisNexis

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0769884881

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9780769884882

Microeconomics

By: Paul Wonnacott,Ronald J. Wonnacott

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Microeconomics

By: Paul Wonnacott,Ronald J. Wonnacott

Presenting the fundamentals of microeconomics, the Fourth Edition retains the strengths of the previous editions, but now integrates economic principles with their policy implications, in many cases using a specific illustration to introduce an abstract idea. Naturally, the authors emphasize the importance of ``switching'' in explaining demand and supply; however, it goes beyond most others to provide more detail and tighter explanation of what the aggregate demand and aggregate supply curves look like and why, making an introduction to macroeconomics much easier. In addition, the Fourth Edition places a greater emphasis on the international aspects of modern economies. Includes examples, applications, graphs, table, and exercises.

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Wiley

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0471508381

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9780471508380

Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry

Final Report to Governor Mario M. Cuomo

By: New York State Organized Crime Task Force,Ronald Goldstock

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Final Report to Governor Mario M. Cuomo

By: New York State Organized Crime Task Force,Ronald Goldstock

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Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry

Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry

The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution

The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution

The Bullet or the Bribe

The Bullet or the Bribe

Immigration Law and Procedure: Business Immigration Module

Immigration Law and Procedure: Business Immigration Module

Microeconomics

Microeconomics

Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry

Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry

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