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The O'Connell family, with Dan at the helm, ran Albany, New York from the late 1920's to the late 1950's by selling their illegal beer and using the proceeds to help local politicians get elected and also feed the people of Albany. All one had to do is vote the way he wanted. His friend and local mobster John Oley needed money to go into the brewing business himself as prohibition came to a close, so he kidnapped Dan's nephew, and wanted to use the...
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The Last Godfathers charts the spectacular rise and the fall of one of the richest and most powerful criminal organizations in history, the Sicilian mafia's Corleone clan. From humble origins in the town of Corleone, they manipulated the Cosa Nostra's code of honor, deceiving and bludgeoning to the summit of the secret brotherhood, purging rivals and launching terrorist campaigns which decimated anti-mafia judges, police and politicians.
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63) Ceasefire
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Maha took his room key out of the pocket of his trousers, reflexively located the key hole and turned the key in the lock, but just then his eyes were drawn to a mark on his door. It was the etching of a small coffin roughly outlined by the impatient blade of an angry knife. He had been marked; it was the Black Eyes. Maha had expected it...but that was about a year ago. the Black Eyes loved to revenge when the target felt safe. So this was it, Maha...
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A mother is tangled in a deadly web of love and deceit; spun by both her young son and a man that they were supposed to be able to trust with their lives.
After the mother bounces back from near death they both must depend on their loved ones, and not so loved ones, to use only their street smarts against unbelievable odds to protect them. Will family be enough? Will she ask the right people? WHO can she trust?
65) Crime Bosses
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At the top of the heap, it's a long way down...
The Little Fella, George Freeman, phoned to tell the owner of The Palace, an illegal Kings Cross casino, that everything was 'sweet in town - for now'. An all-clear from Sydney's gaming boss. He tended to have the right oil.
Beer, served in contravention of liquor license conditions, at heavily marked up prices, was the liquid gold that gave Abe Saffron his start as a crime boss. 'Mr Sin' rebuilt...
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It was a bitterly cold autumn night in 1978, at a deserted end of the cargo area of John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. At 3:00 a.m., the most notorious armed robbery in American history started to unfold, and so did the meticulous planning of the mastermind. Thirty minutes into the robbery, a Lufthansa German Airlines cargo worker arrived at the back of the building and crossed the path of three heavily armed wiseguys from Brooklyn....
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In this investigation into the criminal underworld of the cities and villages of the Italian South, David Lane provides an unrivaled exposé of the operations of the Mafia today
From Naples, home of Mafia-controlled mozzarella and toxic waste, through the no less rotten Calabria, to Sicily, cradle of Cosa Nostra, the hold of the Mafia on Southern Italy is as strong as ever. Following a multi-decade career as a journalist in Italy, David Lane uses...
68) Family Secret
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On June 20, 1947, one of the most notorious gangsters of the twentieth century, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, was murdered in the Beverly Hills mansion of his mistress, Virginia Hill. While there have been numerous theories in regard to who actually killed "the father of Las Vegas," the fact remains, the Siegel murder case is still officially unsolved... until now.
In 1941, when Bob MacDonald married Betty Ann Rockwell, it appeared as though their relationship...
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30 Illegal Years To The Strip is the inside story of Prohibition's most powerful leaders, who later ran elegant, illegal casinos across America, before moving on to build the glamorous Las Vegas Strip gambling resorts. The seven leaders of the three dominating Prohibition gangs imported the world's finest liquors on a massive scale. Although in an illegal and dangerous business, these seven espoused traditional business values and rejected the key...
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Father's Day 1984: seven people die in a blaze of gunfire on a sunny afternoon in a hotel car park. Among the dead, a 15 year old girl caught in the crossfire when two heavily-armed bikie gangs, the Comancheros and the Bandidos, clash. Brothers in Arms tells the extraordinary story of this murderous outbreak, from its vicious beginnings in the closed world of Sydney's motorcycle gangs to its inevitable end in death and imprisonment. The Milpera Massacre...
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LA HISTORIA lo recordará siempre como uno de los personajes más icónicos en el ámbito del crimen organizado.
Sin embargo, el Patrón llegó a ser más que un criminal. Influyó en la cultura de un país, marcando un antes y un después.
ODIADO POR UNOS Y AMADOS POR OTROS, el Patrón no pasa desapercibido y en esta historia relato cómo su paso afectó a toda una generación.
Te invito a sumergirte en las páginas de este libro, y descubrir...
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For the first time in paperback, author Ron Chepesiuk chronicles the little known history of organized crime in Harlem. African American organized crime has had as significant an impact on its constituent community as Italian, Jewish, and Irish organized crime has had on theirs. Gangsters are every bit as colorful, intriguing, and powerful as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, and have a fascinating history in gambling, prostitution, and drug dealing. In...
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Expunged is a fictionalized story based on the life of Shaun Flowers, who at the age of eighteen found himself jailed for a petty misdemeanor. Until this unfortunate incident, Shaun had ended his secondary education in New Jersey with all the academic requisites and social skills for a promising future career. Rather than allow a damning and out-of-proportion criminal record negate a productive future, as was the case for multitudes of men of color...
74) Harlem Heroin(e)
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Tonia "Ms. Tee" Taylor's life changed forever on the night that her friend and brother Jermaine "Baby Jay" was murdered. Jermaine aka "The Prince of Harlem" was actually the last of a long line of real, smart, and handsome street dudes she encountered growing up in Harlem. In the early 80's she became intrigued by the fast life despite growing up in a strict and disciplined household. That curiosity eventually led her to becoming a drug dealer as...
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When I hired on with Fedex I figured like most, to work hard, do a good job and if all went well ...retire from there. But that wasn't going to happen. I found instead a company and CEO whose roots were steeped in Racism & Discrimination against Blacks as not seen in 75 years. That Fred Smith and white Fedex management designs and engineers equipment that is "dumbed down" called "NP" equipment. Because they believe Black workers are NOT as smart as...
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"The Grandfather African" is a book about the convicted Czech criminal Radovan Krejčíř. The action takes place in South Africa, to where Krejčíř fled in 2007 to avoid being jailed in the Czech Republic for a billion-crown fraud and conspiracy to commit murder. The book is written in a journalistic style and based on real events. It was the basis for the film "Gangster KA: African." Krejčíř had become a major boss in the South African underworld....
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Since the late 19th century, the Mafia has been a presence in North America using intimidation and worse to exert its control over organized crime in the major cities and beyond - anything from loansharking to bootlegging during Prohibition to extortion, kidnapping and racketeering. For the Mob (as they are also known), crime was big business. Feuds between Mafia families and their associates led to Lucky Luciano, the preeminent Mob boss, creating...
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Downfall explores, for the first time, how the Sweeney (the Flying Squad), the Elite Serious Organized Crime Unit, and the Obscene Publications Squad (the Dirty Squad) descended to unprecedented levels of corruption in the 1960s and 1970s, leading the infamous gangster Charlie Richardson to say that "the most lucrative, powerful and extensive protection racket ever to exist was administered by the Metropolitan Police." Sir Robert Mark, who became...
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El libro más completo e incisivo sobre el crimen organizado en todo el mundo.
La Yakuza japonesa, las triadas chinas, la Cosa Nostra siciliana, la 'Ndrangheta calabresa, la Mafia norteamericana, las poderosas mafias rusas... ¿Qué significa pertenecer a una organización mafiosa? ¿Cómo se entra y se asciende? ¿Qué ocurre si rompes las reglas?
Federico Varese ha estudiado durante décadas las entrañas de las grandes organizaciones criminales...
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The story of the American Mafia is not complete without a chapter on Kansas City. The City of Fountains has appeared in The Godfather, Casino, and The Sopranos, but many Midwesterners are not aware that Kansas City has affected the fortunes of the entire underworld. In The Mafia and the Machine, author Frank Hayde ties in every major name in organized crime-Luciano, Bugsy, Lansky, as well as the city's corrupt police force.
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