... and to protect the welfare of all law-abiding inhabitants of the province. The expectations of a governor were specifically laid out for him in the Roman code of law. A governor was expected to prevent people from illegally obtaining or losing money and property. He was to protect the weaker from ... scheme was met with force by the young woman's father and brother. After one of Verres' men was killed in the dispute, Verres persuaded the Roman governor of Asia to prosecute the father and brother on charges of murder. A small majority from a jury on which Verres was a member convicted ... ...

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... immigrants from southern Italy, especially from Sicily, to the United States between 1875 and 1920. The immigrants came from an environment that historically had been hostile to them. Suppressed by Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Norman, and Spanish, in addition to being exploited by mostly absentee landlords with their armies, Sicilians had learned to survive by relying on the strength of their ... Sicilian families that were loosely associated with one another in operating organized crime, both in America and in Sicily. Ever since the testimony of the Mafioso Joseph Valachi before the Senate's...

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