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Alphonse D'Arco was acting boss of the Lucchese crime family during a time when acting boss Vittorio Amuso and underboss Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso were serving prison time. D'Arco was in trouble by th……続きを見る

Salvatore Polisi was an associate of Gambino crime boss John Gotti for many years. He managed the Sinatra Club, which was a frequent hangout for Gambino crime family members. Gotti and his brother w……続きを見る

Andrew Alberti was a prominent member of the Gambino syndicate from the 1950s until his death in 1964. Alberti was a player in a 1953 narcotics ring that was busted in Manhattan. The leader of the d……続きを見る

Natural resources and their effective management are necessary for securing the realisation of human rights. The management of natural resources is linked to broad issues of economic development, as……続きを見る

Gennaro Angiulo was a top figure in the New England Mafia run by Raymond Patriarca. Jerry had three brothers who were involved with him in a portion of the crimes he committed. The Angiulos, includi……続きを見る

As the pages of The World and the Word: Exploring the Lost Cause unfold, there is a kind of internal consistency with both the worldview (social sciences) and the word view (the Bible). However, whe……続きを見る

George Schachter, aka Harry "Big Greenie" Greenberg was a Murder Inc., associate who was gunned down in his Ford convertible coupe on Thanksgiving Eve, 1939. Greenberg was raised in New York's East ……続きを見る

Choose your hours, choose your work, be your own boss, control your own income. Welcome to the sharing economy, a nebulous collection of online platforms and apps that promise to transcend capitalis……続きを見る

Robert Occhipinti was a Cosa Nostra figure who was closely tied to the DeCavalcante and Gambino families. His cousin was Sam "the Plumber" DeCavalcante. Together Occhipinti and DeCavalcante planned ……続きを見る

Joseph Laratro was a Lucchese crime family member who spent his career in the gambling and betting rackets. As early as 1939 he was arrested for possession of policy slips in an illegal numbers rack……続きを見る

Rocco "Rogie" Mazzie was a Gambino family capo who was heavily involved in narcotics trafficking. In December 1954 Mazzie was a defendant on trial with several Cleveland, Buffalo and New York City m……続きを見る

Sebastian "Benny" Biondo was part of a loansharking ring that operated in Suffolk County, New York in the late 1960s. Biondo served forty months in prison, mostly at the Auburn Correctional Facility……続きを見る

Former Teamster official Ettore Zappi was a caporegime in the Gambino crime syndicate. He lived next door to family boss Carlo "Don Carlo" Gambino in Massapequa, New York. Zappi was involved in mult……続きを見る

First published in 1938. This study of the labour crisis in the USA consists of interviews with leaders and members of labour unions, unorganised workers, businessmen, and those in positions of publ……続きを見る

Carmine Fatico was in trouble with the law in 1966 for the death plot to kill East Rockaway businessman Bernard Reissman. The third of four sons born to a Brooklyn immigrant family, Carmine earned a……続きを見る

Published in 1998, this is an analysis of the impact in Hungary of environmental policy following the Convention of Long Range Trans-boundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) of the Economic Commission of Eur……続きを見る

Cosmo "Gus" Frasca rose to become a Genovese crime family caporegime. By the mid-1930s he was in trouble for assault and robbery during a Manhattan jewelry stickup. At the time Frasca and his father……続きを見る

George "Blah Blah" Smurra was a button/soldier for the Genovese crime family. He first gained notoriety as one of the shooters in the gangland murder of Ferdinand "the Shadow" Boccia on September 19……続きを見る

Francesco Cucola was known as the Artichoke King during the mayoral administration of Fiorella LaGuardia. In the 1930s he was half owner of a large New York City produce company. In response to this……続きを見る

Containing the latest research and insights of academics and development practitioners pursuing political and economic reforms in the ASEAN region, Building Inclusive Democracies in ASEAN recognizes……続きを見る

Lawrence Centore Sr. was convicted in the 1968 murder of small time hoodlum Antonio "Tony Tash" Veneiro. The body of the victim was found in Hastings on Hudson but the slaying wasn't resolved for an……続きを見る

Aniello Ercole doubled as a fight manager and gambling supervisor of the New York docks. He was closely associated with mobsters Albert Anastasia and Joe Adonis. Anastasia attended lightweight Pat M……続きを見る

Rudolph Prisco was a Mafia figure whose criminal record dates to the 1920s and 1930s. Involved in policy rackets and gambling, he was once indicted for the murder of a pinochle player. In another in……続きを見る

Vincent Mauro was a lynchpin in an international drug smuggling operation that originated in Italy in 1958. The ring flourished in New York City and Toronto, Canada as well. Mauro was a close associ……続きを見る

Charles Albero was in trouble for truancy by the time he was nine years old. He was sent to the Elmira Reformatory in the 1920s. His first active prison sentence occurred in 1929. Albero was in a Lu……続きを見る

Joseph Paterra criminal life was intimately tied to the career of Joseph "Joie" Aloe. The latter gangster virtually controlled inmate life in the notorious Welfare Island (Roosevelt Island) Prison o……続きを見る

The brutal bashings of a five-year-old Cody Hutchings by his step-father promoted a major change in state legislation in Australia. After Stuart John McMaster was found guilty manslaughter, the Vict……続きを見る

John Stoppelli was in trouble with the law from his teenage years when he stole carrier pigeons from a Long Island City coup. In 1938 he was questioned following the death of a beautiful dancer name……続きを見る

Following the abduction of family boss Joseph Bonanno Sr., there was an intense struggle for supremacy in the Bonanno Mafia family. My e-book looks at some of the principals involved in the ensuing ……続きを見る

John Delutro was a Gambino family soldier who was indicted by federal agents for heroin and cocaine trafficking in December 2000. Delutro was one of six mobsters from four different New York crime f……続きを見る