This is because the elite officers who comprise the secret SEAL Team Six practice a Mafia-like code of omerta. |
Mark Stafford, a fourth-generation scion of one of Leinster's most prominent business dynasties, has decided to end his family's informal media omerta. |
Blame the 80 percent of good cops who have a Mafia-like omerta, code of silence, and refuse to testify against their fellow officers. |
Until the 1980s, the only major OC figure who had broken the code of omerta was Joe Valachi. |
You received the kiss upon both cheeks, you accepted the salutation on the brow, you took the oath of the omerta! |
They are bound to secrecy by a code of omerta that evidently frustrated the OFT. Solicitors rarely haggle over fees because barristers' bills are small in relation to overall legal fees. |