1.   The local businessman forced to pay off a cop or local thug is going to charge more to the multinational client.

2.   They let the leather-jacketed thug go, and that bothers Pease.

3.   They let the thug go, and that bothers Pease. . .

4.   This has involved thugs going to a polling station, stealing or stuffing ballot boxes, or simply ordering voters to mark ballots for a particular candidate.