1.   Assistant FBI director James Kallstrom nodded vigorously last week when asked at a news conference Thursday if investigators had any evidence of mob involvement.

2.   Bolles wrote of mob involvement in land fraud scams, gambling, prostitution, loan sharking, extortion, burglary and narcotics.

3.   Coia said he was taken aback by that Chicago trip because it taught him the extent of mob involvement in the union.

4.   Jurors were not told that the Fiato brothers were affiliated with the Mafia but their testimony cast a shadow of mob involvement over the trial.

5.   Recent investigations by the Manhattan district attorney, Robert Morgenthau, have turned up mob involvement in office building management and resulted in successful prosecutions.

6.   As criticism mounted against mob involvement in politics, the Justice Ministry proposed Monday banning hooligans and gangsters with criminal records from running in elections.

7.   Japan has extremely strict gun control laws, and urban shootings often raise suspicions of mob involvement.

8.   Some analysts say allegations of mob involvement have cast a pall over startups, which make up most of the new market.

9.   The growing fund-raising prowess of Las Vegas is tied, in part, to its shedding of stereotypes such as mob involvement and shadowy figures.