1.   But in citing the apparently phony check, prosecutors asserted Thursday that Estrada is guilty of a range of chicanery worthy of an underworld boss.

2.   He has dogged underworld bosses, pursued top bankers and bureaucrats once considered untouchable, even leveled graft accusations against fellow policemen.

3.   Trafficante had been the underworld boss in Cuba until Castro closed down his gambling, prostitution and narcotics empire.

4.   Underworld bosses can order someone killed in Russia.

5.   Underworld bosses, lieutenants and ordinary soldiers have been tracked down, arrested and put in the dock in numerous trials now clogging the Italian courts.

6.   A former athlete, believed to be a local underworld boss, was shot to death last Sunday near Sofia.

7.   A suspected underworld boss sunbathing on a beach was arrested by a squad of undercover policewomen jogging along the shore.

8.   Bulgaria has extradited a Turkish underworld boss wanted in Turkey for escaping prison while serving time for the killing of a mayor, police said Sunday.

9.   But a top Mafia turncoat has testified that Andreotti traveled to Sicily several times to talk with underworld bosses.

10.   Chandraswami also has been accused of having links with Dawood Ibrahim, a reputed underworld boss from Bombay who now lives in self-imposed exile in Dubai.