1.   Masturbation, homosexual relations and watching the Playboy television channel rank, in scale of punishment, with running drug cartels and exterminating aboriginal populations.

2.   The prosecutors charged a high ranking member of the Genovese crime family Wednesday with helping to run the cartel, which was called the Association.

3.   The U.K. government published a document outlining plans to tighten the law on competition, including a proposal for heavy fines to be imposed on companies running illegal cartels.

4.   American law provides for jail terms for those found guilty of running a cartel.

5.   De Beers runs the cartel through which Russia and other major diamond producers market most of their stones.

6.   Officials say he ran the cartel alongside his brother, Gilberto, for years.

7.   Violence in Colombia today is even worse than in the days when druglord Pablo Escobar ran the dreaded Medellin cocaine cartel, Santos said.