The truth is that enduring this type of psychological harassment – for that's what it amounts to – is not the domain of paranoid fantasists or mobsters.
Because Gabi is married to a gangster (Mads Mikkelsen), Charlie finds himself entangled with Romanian mobsters whose preferred method of punishment is to attach enemies to one another with superglue that rips off their skin if they try to unstick themselves.
These officials cannot have been too sorry about the spectacle of the mobsters wiping each other out in jail.Colombians have always been keen sometimes with reason to blame an American conspiracy for the latest surreal twist in their drugs wars.
Funds can exploit small price movements, often caused by mundane news about, say, product development—and use derivatives to magnify gains.The case against Mr Rajaratnam is based in part on the novel use of wiretaps, a technique previously reserved for blue-collar criminals such as mobsters and terrorists.
A theory now doing the rounds says that, like mobsters, terrorists can decide that they get more of what they want by going legitimate.From afar (and, to their victims, from close up) the Middle East's terrorists look much the same: bloody and implacable bands that should be pounded, not appeased.
Law and order too were very much their business: one army officer who led the search for the mobsters reckons that 70% of the city's policemen were in their pay.
Bank balances apart, Colombia's mobsters have huge holdings of urban property, and of good farming land.
The mobsters, who value their privacy, are said to be leaving the Caribbean for more secluded Pacific islands.
A single trial of all 62 arrested mobsters is doubtful.
The children of the old syndicate-members have certainly been to college; but many merely emerge as better-educated mobsters.
Mr Lo Presti was among 89 alleged mobsters detained in one of the biggest-ever police operations in Sicily.
