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Does Canada have a mob? Find out inside! It's no secret that organized crime is everywhere. From Japan and Italy to Israel and Mexico, there seems to be no place on earth where an organized crime family doesn't exist. You may think that one of the few safe places left is friendly, welcoming Canada, which many believe is so safe that people there always leave their doors unlocked. Think again. This book delves into the often ignored but nevertheless...
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"The Purple Gang was a loosely organized confederation of mobsters who dominated the Detroit underworld and whose tentacles reached across the country. Beginning in the Prohibition Era, the Purple Gang prevailed in distilling alcohol and running liquor from Canada, kidnapping, and labor racketeering. This is the hitherto untold story of the rise and fall of one of American's most notorious criminal groups. In an era resembling the Wild West when post...
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Al Capone. The Untouchables. The Valentine's Day massacre. You may think you know everything about the Roaring Twenties in the Windy City, but in the early twentieth century, the harsh environment of the Maxwell Street ghetto produced a proliferation of Jewish gangsters involved in everything from labor racketeering to white slavery. Their illegal activity offended their own community's value system and sparked rifts between Reform and Orthodox Jews....
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MADE is Book 1 of an Epic, Crime Thriller trilogy. It's about Andy Cooper, a military vet, turned hustler, turned Gangster, turned Crime Boss. His marriage is on the rocks, fresh out of the military, AC finds himself broke and lost with a Wife and three kids to feed. Trapped in Sin City and working any job he can get from day to day, to make ends meet. Hating the state of mind, he's in right now, a really fucked up way to be! Gone are the days when...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2016.
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Angelo Bruno was a Mafia don in Philadelphia and southern New Jersey until he was shot dead as he arrived home one evening from an Italian restaurant. It was when competitors encroached on Angelo's dominance in the more lucrative Atlantic City rackets that he found trouble. Also Bruno had divulged information about the syndicate to one of many government committees who investigated organized crime. Whatever the motive Angelo's death was sudden and...
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While other cities are credited for birthing and honing the legendary crime figures who inevitably influenced and shaped their susceptible surroundings and culture, Miami is where the Mob, like many American citizens, often turned when seeking vacation, vice, or a new beginning. Dating back to the first quarter of the 20th century, resourceful gangsters from across the nation recognized the profitable business opportunities Miami could provide with...
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is no longer fit for purpose.
Reflecting on his career in the RCMP from 1973 to 2003, Garry Clement recounts his childhood in rural Ontario; his RCMP training in Regina; his drug-bust days based in British Columbia, Montreal, and Toronto; his work battling the Chinese Communist Party's infiltration of Canada; his role in the Parliament Hill bus hijacking; his involvement in the post–9/11 Maher Arar inquiry; his...
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A revelatory biography of the notorious Irish criminal John Gilligan, and the eagerly anticipated next true crime blockbuster from award-winning Irish journalist Paul Williams.
John Gilligan is one of the most notorious and hated criminal figures in Irish history. His name is indelibly etched in the national psyche a quarter of a century after he crossed the line to organize the execution of the fearless, high-profile journalist Veronica Guerin....
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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Stefano Magaddino dominated organized crime in Buffalo, New York during the 1960s. His criminal network extended into Ontario, Canada and the Ohio Valley region. My e-book is a close, short look at the power structure of Magaddino's criminal syndicate, with the names of lieutenants, family members, opponents, et cetera, listed. Magaddino was in his late 70s as the decade came to an end. He often conducted his business from his sick bed. His brother,...
12) Organized Crime
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The word "Mafia" is used to describe a secret criminal society. Today, organized crime groups such as the
Italian Mafia, Japanese Yakuza, and Chinese Triads commit crimes around the world. Find out more in
Organized Crime, one of the titles in The Hidden World of Crime series.
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Originally published in 1962, The Merchants of Menace analyzes Mafia activity in the United States. Described as an authoritative effort to explain organized crime, the book draws on author Edward J. Allen's experiences during the late 1940s and early 1950s whilst serving as the Chief of the Police Department in Youngstown, Ohio-a city at the time corrupted by Mafia influence from nearby Detroit and Buffalo, N.Y.-and his crack-down on gambling, prostitution...
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Special Agent Dominic Franchini has a major dilemma. As the leader of one of the FBI's Organized Crime TAsk Forces, he's supposed to work within the law to bring down the bad guys. Only his last op went belly up when somebody didn't play by the rules, and he was the one left holding the bag.
Bridgette Mahoney lost everything to the gang that terrorized her hometown. After learning the Black Mambas stood to gain a cool million in cash and increase...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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The murders of Broadway celebrities Thula Louise Lawson and Dorothy Keenan, in 1923 and 1924, occurred in the Times Square/Theater District of Manhattan, New York. Lawson and Keenan were both associated with mobsters in their social lives, especially in the clubs they frequented in Manhattan. Lawson came to New York from Texas. She was a talented musician and also an ingenue actress in theater. Keenan, also known as Dot King, began as a seamstress...
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The New leader of the Mob is More Than Just a Pretty Face...
Organized Crime Task Force member FBI Agent Deke Kirpatrick spends his days working to drive the mob out of town. But recently he has a secondary objective: he's lonely. He is the last of the Three Amigos to still be single. Envious of his friends, now he can't get the dark haired beauty he had seen only once months before out of his head. After spending a considerable amount of time and...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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Harold Giles Hoffman was elected governor of New Jersey in 1935. A gregarious, popular politician he was a former assistant chemist and banker. His supporters touted him as a prospective Republican Presidential candidate for the upcoming 1936 election. Unbeknownst to his backers, however, Hoffman had used stolen bank funds to further his political career. He continued moving money he had taken illegally throughout his term as governor. Many of his...
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Frank Sheeran, known as the Irishman, waited his entire life to tell his story, or at least his version of his story. The world knew him as a union official, a long-time member of the Teamsters Union, he was a member of Jimmy Hoffa's inner circle at the top of the national union. He had run-ins with the law in this position. He was charged with the murder of a rebel union member in a riot that occurred outside the Teamster's Local Philadelphia Union...
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Did the mafia kill JFK? Sam Giancana is one of the most famous gangsters in U.S. history, with rumored links to the CIA and President Kennedy. But was he really involved in the assassination attempt on Fidel Castro and the assassination of J.F.K.? This thrilling bio gives you all the details on one of America's most fascinating underworld figures.
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Some ministers preach...some get locked and loaded.
Reverend Spracklin was a gangster's worst nightmare. Known to the press and public as the 'Fighting Parson', he and his handpicked squad of dry agents burst into the roadhouses of Essex County with pistols drawn and fists clenched. They chased liquor-laden vehicles through dark city streets and along rough country roads, and intercepted rumrunners on the Detroit River in their high-powered speedboat,...
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