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11-13-17 ~ INSIDE VEGAS
Feature Articles
 The Model Racketeering Enterprise: Mafia
The Mafia seeks to infiltrate social, economic, political, and judicial institutions; it is a corruptive force that at its most successful corrupts civil servants to its own ends.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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This Is Not Your Grandfather's 'Ndrangheta
The concept of ‘Ndranghetismo makes reference to its mafia-type criminal culture that absorbs the various Calabrian clans.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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The Walter Mitty Syndrome
A person with a very fertile imagination who can mentally place himself in the role of another, whom he admires, but himself can never equal in status.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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Sin City - What Happens In Vagas Stays In Vagas
Indicators of the Vegas moral code and that of the Underworld; a distortion of the principle of manhood. After all, Vegas is a Mob creation.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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The Racketeer And His Customer - A Dyad - You Can't Have One Without The Other
Al Capone, said in his wisdom, 'All I am doing is giving the people what they want.' You cannot sell a product if no one wants it.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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Russiya Mafiya
Russia is a mafia state whose leaders ignore the crimes of their underlings in exchange for absolute loyalty.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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How Landmark American Mafia Investigations Impact Robert Mueller's Russia Probe |
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How Landmark American Mafia Investigations Impact Robert Mueller's Russia Probe
Many Americans, in order to understand the current drama regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, are looking back to similar cases, notably those of Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, as well as the Iran-Contra affair.
- J. R. de Szigethy
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CRIMINALPOL
The FBI Of Italy |
CRIMINALPOL - The FBI Of Italy
In March 1967, in Italy, a national police organization was founded referred to by the acronym Criminalpol, which coordinates the four principle police systems in Italy.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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Author Maria Stewart Brings Us Back To The Scene Of The Crime
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Author Maria Stewart Brings Us Back To The Scene Of The Crime
There have been a few books and films made from a women’s point of view when it comes to the mob yet with the story that Maria Stewart lays out for us it is quite different and compelling with a dark history behind it.
- Nick Christophers
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FBI Microphone Tapping of Cosa Nostra |
FBI Microphone Tapping of Cosa Nostra
One of the FBI’s great feats was a successful phone tap of Samuel de Cavalcante.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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The Model Racketeering Enterprise: MAFIA |
The Model Racketeering Enterprise: MAFIA
"Mafia", is treated here as a theoretical concept, not simply as your ordinary everyday orgcrime.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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Racketeering Enterprises
Racketeering is the operation of illegal businesses, or when an organized crime ring uses legitimate organizations to embezzle funds.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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Nicky Slick says something stinks in Philly
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Nicky Slick says something stinks in Philly
Nicky Slick DiPietro may die in prison for a murder everyone knows he did not commit.
- Nick Christophers
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Napoli: La Camorra Chiacchierata |
Napoli: La Camorra Chiacchierata
The meaning of the above title is that this article is essentially a casual chat about the Camorra of Naples.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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Gergo Is Italian Mobspeak |
Gergo Is Italian Mobspeak
The significance of the term gergo is actually broader than the word mobspeak.
- 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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La Mafia is Hyper Fratellanza |
La Mafia is Hyper Fratellanza
The concept of Fratellanza refers to a band of reciprocal affections that tightly unites Fratelli into a Brotherhood, leading to the Brothers gathering under the same symbol, swearing mutual and enduring fidelity.
- Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
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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
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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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