A federal jury found Martha Stewart guilty of all four counts related to her obstruction of a government investigation into her sale of ImClone Systems Inc. stock in late 2001, giving the government a big win in its pursuit of white-collar crime.
Santa Muerte. Nuestra SeÃ±ora de la Santa Muerte (Spanish for Our Lady of the Holy Death) or, colloquially, Santa Muerte (Holy Death), is a female deity (or folk saint depending on school of thought) Mexican folk religion, venerated primarily in Mexico and the Southwestern United States.
Meaning: A code of silence practiced by the Mafia; a refusal to give evidence to the police about criminal activities. Classified under: Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents. Hypernyms (omerta is a kind of...): code; codification (a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)) Domain category: Cosa Nostra; Maffia; Mafia (a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia)