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Thompson uncovered two highly organized police extortion rings that preyed on the near-North Side liquor trade during the past few years. The cops set up "vice clubs" and "invited" everyone to join who sold liquor-the owners of corner taverns, Gold Coast bistros, swinging singles spots and homosexual hangouts...
The two extortion rings netted more than half a million dollars for their police operators. Thompson has so far indicted 37 men and won convictions of 23, including the two captains. Meanwhile he is investigating four other districts of Chicago for possible rings.
Responsibility for the attack was claimed last week by the People's Revolutionary Army, or E.R.P., a Marxist terrorist group that numbers about 2,000 guerrillas. The attack came on the eve of parliamentary debates on a new penal code that would clamp down on terrorist activities; for example...
Sources say that sometime in February, probably by the 14th, we can expect the public announcement of a new inter-office agency, the League of Official Vice and Extortion (LOVE). The League will cut across all departmental boundaries, and unite federal, state and local efforts of similar concern. Tentative plans...
Classified files that have been judiciously leaked to the press would seem to indicate that the groundwork for LOVE was laid last summer in response to the high Neilson rating enjoyed by the Senate Watergate hearings. The agency was tentatively dubbed the Government Office of Depravity (GOD), but this was...