Mafia In The United States

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Term Paper Title	Mafia In The United States
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Mafia in the United States

By

Ian Barber

English

1, June 1998

     The American Mafia, which emerged during Prohibition as a wealthier and more violent successor to local city gangs, has been virtually eclipsed as a major actor in the U.S. criminal world. In the late 1800's, southern Italians attempted to reproduce the Mafia in the United States.
     The Mafia today is more greatly related to Italy then ever before. Italy has now become even more notorious of the Mafia then in the past. The Mafia unfortunately moved over seas from Sicily, Italy to the United States because of more reinforced laws and crime prevention organizations.
     The Mafia is now decreasing in the United States thanks to the police, F.B.I., and the CIA The United States has practically stopped the Mafia because specific bureaus concentrated on the Mafia and its movement in the United States.
     The survival of the Mafia was based on bootlegging movies, tapes, C.D.'s, books, and liquor. A tremendous amount of money came from these bootlegged operations.
(MS Encarta)
     The Mafia then tried to control all importing and exporting of all drugs. They first tried controlling the heroin market, but then realized it was moving to slow for them. They then tried the cocaine market. Since cocaine was on an uprise in the United States they stuck with it and controlled dealing and purchasing of the drug.(Time Life, Mafia. Canada: Silver Burdett, 1993)
     There were many famous mafiosos in the United States. A mafioso is a Mafia member. One very famous Mafia member was Alphonse Capone (1899-1947). Al Capone was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to poor Italian immigrants. The original family name was sometimes spelled Caponi. About 1920, Capone came to Chicago to work for a racketeer. This is when he was known as Scarface. He was given the name scare face because of a scar on his left cheek from a street fight. A series of gangland shootings soon left the violent and clever Capone in control of much of the city's large-scale criminal activities. His gang dominated liquor, gambling, and prostitution rackets. His gang fought off rival gangs with guns, and corrupted police and politicians with bribes.
     Capone gunmen were blamed for the murder of seven members of the Bugs Moran gang in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929,...

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