Mafia In America

The Mafia is a network of organized-crime groups based in Italy and America, evolved over centuries in Sicily, an island ruled until mid-19th century by a long line of foreign invaders. In Sicily, the term “mafioso”, or Mafia member, initially had no criminal connotations and was used to refer to a person who was suspicious of central authority. Throughout the years the Mafia has affected the United States of America such as Immigration & Prohibition. Also such as several underground activities.

The Mafia has many way of working such as controlling everything from street corner drug trades to the highest level of government. They also have secret codes or names which are called the Jargon. Some of the codes are: LA Cosa Nostra which means

What’s more, the gang even franchised itself in the form of the “Forty Little Thieves,” a collection of juvenile apprentices who served as pickpockets and

He established a liquor smuggling enterprise in New York and upstate New York, where he lived for time after shooting and killing men in his Hotsy Totsy club. He was found dead in 1931 at his home in Albany, New York, after being acquitted of torture. Another Mafia boss that is well known is Al Capone, Capone grew up in New York. At a very early age of twelve he quit school. After quitting school he worked in a bowling alley & joined a gang. At the age of eighteen, he moved his thugs to