1. Organized Crime Vs. Prohibition
The Mafia as we know them now as Cosa Nostra, came into existence when a group of small, largely Italian decent began selling "protection" and other services such as gambling and prostitution. ... Following a Feudal tradition the Mafia disdained legal authorities, sought justice through direct action and held a rigid code of secrecy, practices that enabled Mafiosi to rise in organized crime, after migrating from Italy to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The Mafia survived Mussolini's attempt to stamp it out in Italy before World War II, and it and oth...
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