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People Smuggling Out Of Africa |
 People Smuggling Out Of Africa
Human trafficking in Africa is very lucrative for the many organized crime groups that seek to exploit those whose desperation is such that they will gamble in putting their fate in the hands of a very exploitive racketeering system that is the most vile the modern world has seen.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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The Old Out - The New In
Our mobster of legend, the Goodfella, has been replaced by a phalanx of mumbling cyberexperts of sallow complexion, poor posture, having never witnessed sunlight; radar focused, typing furiously, hacking into the infinite cybernetic expanding universe.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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The Italian Carabinieri
It all began on 13 July 1814 when the King of Sardinia by Royal warrant instituted for national defense the ancient Corps of the Royal Carabinieri
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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Mobsters Are Misunderstood
Organized crime is no more than a microcosm of the rest of American society.
- Sonny Girard, Mobster / Inmate / Author
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Camorristi and Mafiosi
Camorra earned a reputation for savagery, mafia for its stealth and infiltration into the Sicilian sociopolitical system.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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Do Mobsters Really
Have More Fun? |
Do Mobsters Really Have More Fun?
The gangster of myth, so fully displayed in the entertainment culture, is a portal to the pervasive daydreaming of every wannabe.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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Dual Mission:
A True Story about a Secret Service Agent and His Investigative Experiences to Include His Battle with the New York Mafia!
- Nino Perrotta
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Ron Kerner AKA Ronnie "The Rottweiler" Kerner:
The Last of the Tough Jews
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Ron Kerner AKA Ronnie "The Rottweiler" Kerner:
The Last of the Tough Jews
It is rare that we hear of Jewish gangsters anymore as in the days of Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel or Murder Inc.
- Nick Christophers
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L’uomo con cinque mani
The first time I encountered the above phrase, which translates “The man with five hands,” I wondered what it meant.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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Mafiocracy
In the field of mafiology, mafiocracy is a neologism, a new concept, a form of governing.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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I Wannabe A Wannabe
Wannabe: A person who wants or aspires to be someone else or who tries to look or act like someone else.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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Promises, Threats, And Prestige
How Do Organized Crime Gangs Recruit New Members?
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Promises, Threats, And Prestige
How Do Organized Crime Gangs Recruit New Members?
Those brought up around organized crime are more able to slip seamlessly into life as a member of an organized criminal gang.
- Emma Stevens
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Paternalistic Psychopathy?
The Mafiosi’s Mind
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Paternalistic Psychopathy? The Mafiosi’s Mind
Is there a particular mindset which one needs in order to be a mafiosi?
- Emma Stevens
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The Short One, El Chapo
Unlike other master criminals, El Chapo, not exactly a Robin Hood figure, has become a populist anti-hero, both in his mind and more importantly among those who share his very humble origins.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the American Mafia |
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The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the American Mafia
Franklin Roosevelt vowed to lead the fight to repeal the Prohibition Amendment which banned the sale of alcoholic beverages, an attempt at legislating morality that fueled an unprecedented expansion of organized crime.
- J. R. de Szigethy,
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Vengeance Is Mine
Vendicare: To offend or damage someone for an act or danger done by a vendettist to us or others. (Dizionario della lingua Italiana, 1941)
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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License To Steal:
"The Goodfellas Trial Part Two" |
License To Steal: "The Goodfellas Trial"
Part Two: Aquittal Provides Plot-Twist Ending
- J. R. de Szigethy
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