Word: ganges
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...race card, arguing that the cruel blow to Cosby's face is rooted in the suspect's hatred of African Americans. Markhasev's juvenile police record includes an arrest for assault with a deadly weapon for his involvement in a fight with members of a predominantly black street gang. While he was serving time in juvenile prison, Markhasev was disciplined for five violent incidents, each involving African Americans...
...world is against him and that regardless of who did what, when, where or how, he's going to be the one to pay the price. He's going to do the rest of his life in jail." In detention Markhasev is never far away from Latino gang members he knew on the outside. He writes to a girlfriend that "the homies are taking care of me"; then he adds, "I'm not really sad or anything. I take life as it comes. If this is what God has for me, then I've got nothing to cry about...
...portraits of the gang emerged vividly from tapes recorded through wafer-thin listening devices in prison visitors' badges and from the testimony of fellow gang members who took the witness stand in exchange for reduced prison sentences. The first portrait was of a narcotics empire that virtually controlled the Illinois state prison system. Hoover held jailhouse meetings, dictated memos and issued orders into his cell phone. He wore $400 alligator boots, dined on specially prepared food and splashed himself with expensive cologne. Payoffs to corrections officers permitted his bodyguards to arm themselves with shanks and bedposts. At one prison near...
...young criminals filtered through prison, they were given application forms to fill out and, if their references proved solid, were indoctrinated into the gang. Everyone who joined had to memorize a 16-rule code dictated by Hoover. The flow of G.D.s back onto the streets enabled Hoover to set up two "boards of directors"--one inside and the other outside the prison--through which he controlled his network of "governors," "coordinators" and "regents." These men in turn managed the gang's day-to-day drug operation: teenage pushers, lookouts and "mules" who worked the inner-city schoolyards, housing projects...
...investigate Democratic campaign fund raising, she will rely on the judgment of the true-blue career lawyers in the Justice Department. Reno didn't budge even when it became known that FBI Director Louis Freeh advised her to opt for an independent counsel, saying she would stick with her gang of untouchables. So just who are these folks...