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Bosses Behind Bars Hurt Crime GroupsWASHINGTON (AP) - The nation’s crime syndicates are suffering from “internal disarray’’ because more and more of their bosses are behind bars, says the head of the Justice Department’s organized crime section.But even in prison, some underworld bosses continue to influence the illegal operations they ruled on the outside and most imprisoned gangsters return to professional crime after their release, William S. Lynch said in an interview.“There are more of the bosses who have been reached by prosecutive efforts. The situation in some parts of the country is pretty clearly indicative that they have been hurt by prosecution,’’ he said. “There is internal disarray in some of its structures across the country.’’He singled out New England, the Midwest, New York and to some extent the Miami area as regions where the syndicates have experienced “organizational disruption as a result of the indictment, and conviction of mob bosses.“Wo have mude fairly good inroads, if not substantial inroads, he continued. “No organization can withstand that kind of prosecutive pressure... and still be an effective organization. If you keep knocking off their best people ... disrupting their lives through incarceration, disrupting if not completelycutting off communications of leaders with subordinates, you uro disrupting unnrwwilutinn.’’
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Corsicana Daily Sun
Corsicana, Texas, US
Mon, Jan 21, 1974
Page 6
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