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The Independent reported on its front page Monday that six leading London law firms are being investigated on suspicion of laundering profits from drug trafficking, gun running, and contract killings by international racketeers, including Colombian cocaine barons and the Mafia.
Brinkley, a highly class-conscious historian, is better at robber barons, depressions, strikes, and grass-roots politics than at wars and natural history.
The union's local bosses were no better: The "barons" padded their payrolls with family members, paid themselves enormous salaries (as much as $500,000 a year), took bribes from employers in exchange for sweetheart contracts, siphoned pension funds into mob-run operations, and generally screwed their rank and file.
Hanna elected William McKinley president in 1896 by marshalling the wealth of the robber barons on his behalf.
The problem was that hangings were popular and sometimes drew huge, raucous, picnicking crowds, an image that didn't quite mesh with the orange-blossom gentility the land barons were trying to create.