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The FBI arrested several high-profile NBA players and coaches on Thursday, alleging that they were involved in illegal sports betting and poker game schemes backed by organized crime families.

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Members of the various crime families provided protection to the games, federal prosecutors allege, and collected debts.

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The second case is more complex in nature, officials said, and involved four of the five major crime families in New York as well as professional athletes.

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Bereaved families who had pushed for a prosecution feel vindicated, to a degree, by the judge's remarks about the Parachute Regiment's actions on Bloody Sunday.

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The books depict events from the Civil War to the present, moving among an assortment of characters from the agrarian region’s closely intertwined families.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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