The Mob, however, have an interest in protecting such businesses and dispatch a fastidious middle-class lawyer (Richard Jenkins) to handle matters.
At its core, Coordinate allows businesses to dispatch and track their mobile employees, be they truck or taxi drivers, plumbers or pizza delivery guys.
So when the city struck back with a flood of "we're open for business" dispatches, I decided to take a day trip to see for myself, booking a seat on Greyhound's "Lucky Streak" bus service from Port Authority ($38 round trip, including fees).
Prosecutors say Mr. Mitchell held court there, using cellphones to transact business and dispatching members of his group to make sales.
Business travelers dispatched by their companies on long airplane trips ought to fly in a degree of comfort.
His business, which dispatched plumbers and electricians to emergencies, was called Don't Get Mad, Get Egan and made the sort of living known as decent.
As a lawyer specializing in trusts and estates, he has more experience than most with the business of dispatching the dead, much of it negative, he said.
"But considering the board's history …" Then, after some ceremonial business was dispatched – a bemused man from Kaiser Permanente handed an oversized cheque to the winners of a relay race – the board got down to the business of debating the proposal.
But the team, which finished with the best regular-season record in the Eastern Conference at 20-12, at least finished the immediate business of dispatching the Mystics, an erratic team at best whose regular-season record was 14-18.
The nation's five largest banks, which dominate the derivatives business, have dispatched trade groups, paid lobbyists and their own executives to convince senators that excluding banks from the derivatives business would make markets less safe by shifting the trading to foreign banks and other institutions that are subject to less federal oversight.
