The Mafia
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, America’s most organized crime group, has dominated the
crime scene for centuries. It’s largest profits come from drugs and
gambling. Other forms of illegal profit come from loan-sharking, labor
racketeering, hijacking, pornography, and prostitution.
is a secret criminal organization that ....
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.... of all Italian criminal groups. “Like a cancer,
the Sicilian approach to crime was metastasizing, sending out its aberrant
cells to colonize social tissues elsewhere, especially in the United
States” (True Crime).
Immigration to the United States, from Italy, began around 1870. “
Of the approximately 5.3 million that have followed, approximately 25
percent came from Sicily” (Italian 4). The mass immigration took place
for many reasons. Many wanted to move because of poverty ....
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