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Blood and Volume: Inside New York's Israeli Mafia
“Headed by a cold-blooded killer named Johnny Attias, the Israeli mafia butted heads with the Italian mafia, killed Russian gangsters and pulled off the biggest gold heist in the history of Manhattan’s Diamond District.â€
Tags: Ron Gonen; mob; Ran Ephraim; Honey Tesman;
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Return of the Godfathers
This is duplicate of 22922, please go there for the story
Tags: mafia; organized crime; mobster; crime families; international relations
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Return of the Godfathers
The Mafia is the topic as Leo Sisti tells the story of the relationship between the Sicilian and U.S. branches of Cosa Nostra. Following a war won by the "Corleonesi" side, the business relationship between the two had come to a halt. Two Inzerillos brothers (Francisco and Rosario), lost a power struggle and were forced to leave their native Sicily in the early 1980s, "exiled" to the U.S. Almost 20 years later, they returned to Sicily to avenge their murdered family members, attempt to regain power and try to resume the old business relationship with the American mob.
Tags: Mafia; Cosa Nostra; Corleonesi; Sicily; Palermo; Inzernillos
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Billion Dollar Business
CBS News reports on the illegal trafficking of women from Eastern Europe to Italian brothels. Christiane Amanpour from CNN, on a special assignment for 60 Minutes, tells the stories of young girls who have been recruited from bankrupt ex-socialist countries. They have been lured with promises for decent job or marriage abroad, and then sold and resold in the prostitution "cattle market." The police in the girls' home countries - Moldova, Romania, Ukraine - is aware of the illegal recruiting but is too corrupt to take any measures. Few of the victims manage to escape due to the help of Italian priests. Some find help in a shelter funded by the U.S. and Swiss governments and run by Ken Patterson from Missouri. Still, most victims remain ensnared "in an underworld controlled by ruthless gangs."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Mafia; gangs; violence; organized crime; Albania; Vlora; poverty; post-communism; human rights
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Black Mass, The Irish Mob, The FBI, and a Devil's Deal
"Black Mass tells the story of two boys-- John Connolly, and James "Whitey" Bulger-- who grew up together on the streets of South Boston. Decades later, in the late 1970's, they meet again. By then Connolly was a major figure in the FBI's Boston office and Whitey had become godfather of the Irish Mob. What happened between them -- a dirty deal to trade secrets and take down Boston's Italian Mafia in the process-- would spiral out of control, leading to murders, and drug dealing, and racketeering indictments. And ultimately, to Bulger making the FBI's most wanted list."
Tags: BOOK; organized crime; corruption; double agents; underworld; mafia; snitch; informant; bugs; racketeering
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The Gotti Tapes
In this two-part series, two veteran crime reporters conclude decades of investigations into the Italian-American Mafia with the scoop they had been waiting for: an interview with the godfather himself, John Gotti, suffering from cancer in a federal prison.
Tags: mob underworld Marion Ill. background celebrity criminal
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The Kosovo Connection
The Montreal Gazette investigates the criminal connections of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the Albanian rebel group defended and entrenched in power by NATO's campaign in Yugoslavia. The report exposes the KLA's links to heroin and prostitution rings that have flourished throughout Europe and North America largely through its help and contends that the group's profit from crime has continued since the war.
Tags: Italian Mafia; drug-smuggling; tycoons; United Nations; FBI; Switzerland; Germany; FOI; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; underworld