The Crime Book
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140 T he Mafia has its roots in the 19th-century orange and lemon groves of western Sicily. Citrus fruits were a particularly lu ...
141 An Italian police handout of nine suspected Mafia members accused of drug trafficking in Sicily. The handout was part of a 2 ...
142 journalists, as these murders brought unwanted attention to Sicilian organized crime as a whole. If a boss wished to order a ...
143 Sicilian police inspect the aftermath of the car bomb attack that killed Judge Paulo Borsellino and his police guards near t ...
144 360 of the accused were found guilty and sentenced to a total of 2,665 years in jail. This was only the beginning: Caponnett ...
145 Wanted posters for the Mafia’s “boss of bosses” Bernardo Provenzano appeared in Palermo in 2005. They were based on a 1959 m ...
146 A t the top-tier of the Chinese criminal hierarchy are the Triad societies, with 250,000 members worldwide and representatio ...
147 See also: The Sicilian Mafia 138–45 ■ The Yakuza 154–59 ■ The Medellín Cartel 166–67 and Central America. Since the late 200 ...
148 THE TRIADS the chicken sacrifice omitted and recruits required to suck only their own blood from their finger. The rise of t ...
149 Macau’s casinos became the epicentre of the 14K Triad’s criminal activity in the late 1990s following the police crackdown o ...
150 IN CONTEXT LOCATION Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, US THEME Outlaw gangs BEFORE 1855 Thieves replace gold worth £12,000 (about £1 ...
151 See also: The James-Younger Gang 24–25 ■ The Great Train Robbery 30–35 ORGANIZED CRIME Members of the Wild Bunch, including ...
152 PROHIBITION HAS MADE NOTHING BUT TROUBLE THE BEER WARS, 1923–29 O n a rainy Friday night in Chicago, Illinois, six armed gan ...
153 A police investigator stands amid containers of moonshine after a South Side raid in 1922. Gangsters often paid the police t ...
IF THE BOSS SAYS A PASSING CROW IS WHITE, YOU MUST AGREE THE YAKUZA, 1946– 154-159_Yakuza.indd 154 02/12/2016 14:43 154-159_Yaku ...
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156 T he Japanese mafia, known collectively as the Yakuza, comprises more than 100,000 members split into a small number of inde ...
157 ceremony, during which an oyabun drinks sake from the same cup as the kobun, to mark the kobun’s entry into the Yakuza group ...
158 acted as shop fronts to conceal their racketeering. They also began to bribe police so that they would turn a blind eye to t ...
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