| Once darkness falls, the army cedes huge areas of the shanty towns to local gangs and mobsters. |
| The mobsters also ripped off two federally supervised funds that subsidize rural phone companies through another billing scam, they said. |
| They have seized companies run by mobsters in the drywall, window-replacement, and painting industries to bust up cartels. |
| The flurry of quid pro quos and dirty deals has all the dignity of mobsters divvying up the spoils. |
| I'm obliged to say that, in case the clown mobsters order a custard-pie hit. |
| He was sleeping with the mistress of one of the leading mobsters in the country. |
