mobster
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As the mobster Hyman Roth and Michael Corleone plot to take over even more of a Cuba on the verge of revolution, Roth says:
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026
Two of his most heralded prosecutions involved New York mobster John Gotti and General Manuel Noriega of Panama.
From Barron's ● Mar. 21, 2026
In “The Mask,” also released in 1994, he played mobster Dorian Tyrell, antagonist to Jim Carrey’s Stanley Ipkiss, a.k.a. the Mask.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
As one former associate tells Springs Toledo about the Boston mobster: “I can’t talk about Joe. He wouldn’t want me to.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
He wore a massive velour tracksuit with gold chains around his neck and greased-back hair, so he looked like a thirty-foot-tall mobster - if mobsters had dragon feet and burnt-orange skin.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
Rocky Balboa is a stumblebum club fighter making $65 a fight and working on the side as collection man for small-time mobsters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
But Morano, the councilman, is adamant that "this is not just a place that should be known for landfills and mobsters."
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Rittenhome never lifts a finger, but Scorsese’s coiled performance drives home the point that corporate executives can be as ruthless as mobsters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
After McCarthy was discredited, Roy Cohn came back to New York and he acquired all kinds of clients; mobsters, nightclub owners, businessmen.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2024
As a young woman, she had played a key role in code breaking during World War I. She later cracked the codes of American mobsters, smashing their crime gangs.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
