Sentence examples for code of good mobster from inspiring English sources
The murder trial concerned the shooting, on the orders of Mr. Basciano, of another gangster who had run up many infractions of some code of good mobster behavior.
These codes of good practice are another important way of promoting the implementation of the Code.
It's also a dream of a code of conduct, binding mobsters together, horizontally and hierarchically, that offers a superficial air of aristocratic refinement and martial discipline to a crude and sanguinary business.
The premiere of "In the Big House," oddly, has a code-of-silence theme, not in relation to ratting out fellow mobsters, but in relation to a surprise party that ends up not being a surprise.
That infant in a pram was caught in a shoot out between lawman Eliot Ness and mobster Al Capone, two clear-cut extremes of good and evil.
Bank balances apart, Colombia's mobsters have huge holdings of urban property, and of good farming land.
Threatening a rival with a gun is often seen as an "unmanly" departure from the yakuza's traditional code of honour, to which even modern-day mobsters try to adhere, according to Whiting.
The Oscar-winning writers and stars of Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, are set to reunite for a gangland biopic based on the life of infamous Boston mobster Whitey Bulger, Variety reports.
It was like mobster Joseph Valachi breaking the Mafia's sacred code of silence (omerta) by squealing before a Senate Committee in 1963.
