He Took Over Cosa Nostra When It Was On Its Knees, After The Carnage Of An All-out War With The State, And Restored Its Power By Going Underground And Infiltrating Business, Law And Politics At The Highest Levels. Clare Longrigg. Subtitle From Jkt.: How Bernardo Provenzano Saved The Mafia. Includes Bibliography (p. 286-28...
White was the seventh head coach to leave or be fired in the WNBA this offseason, meaning a majority of the league's twelve teams will be under new leadership next season. Considering the explosive growth the league saw in 2024, it's clear that the stakes are ramping up for leaders at...
Mutolo said he first realized how things had changed when Riina began ordering the killings of other Mafia members. Then he understood “that to stay inside Cosa Nostra, all you had to do was know how to kill. . . . Honor has nothing to do with this Cosa Nostra, which is by now in...
and they are fighting on the moral high side (barely!), but they don't really care how much damage they cause or who they double-cross on their way to achieving their goals.
Not only was the new deck he put into the game stacked to give him a great hand, but it gave all the other players great hands, too -- great enough that they'd bet their stack, but not quite great enough to beat the cheat. Everyone was suspicious off the bat (the reason it's ...
James "Jimmy" "Bah-Bah" "The Sheep" Battista was a stressed-out, overweight, Oxy-addicted 41-year-old, in the hole to some underground gamblers for sums he'd sort of lost track of, when he settled in to watch an NBA game for which he believed he'd just put in the fix. It was...
Dent thought he had found his man. But after installing a wiretap on Jacobson’s phone, he realized that his tip had led to a super-sized conspiracy. Jacobson was the head of a sprawling network of mobsters, psychics, strip-club owners, convicts, drug traffickers, and even a family of ...
The first hearse built with an internal combustion engine didn't appear until 1909, at the funeral of Wilfrid A. Pruyn. The undertaker responsible was H.D. Ludlow, who commissioned a vehicle to be built out of the body of a horse-drawn hearse and the chassis of a bus. This new type ...
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As the boss, Tommy probably didn't handle the recruitment personally. That job was probably assigned to Ken, who likely had connections to other mafia types through being a lawyer. Ken can also better guarantee there is no rats in Tommy's organization since he can vet his clients. Lance co...