Possible Clues:

• Against type one initially agreed they pool their resources
• Business associations
• Groups of companies, the type one's seen in study article
• More than one commercial group cheats Venetian heiress out of pennies
• Criminal investigators arresting working class groups
• Associations - criminal kind raising capital
• Alliances of companies contrived actions to secure gold
• Type extremely good about to give backing to prisoner associations
• Working associations with men in criminal actions
• Groups in joint ventures