The American Mafia, an Italian-American organized-crime network with operations in cities across the United States, particularly New York and Chicago, rose to power through its success in the illicit liquor trade during the 1920s Prohibition era. After Prohibition, the Mafia moved into other crimin...
1.(Sociology)the Mafiaan international secret organization founded in Sicily, probably in opposition to tyranny. It developed into a criminal organization and in the late 19th century was carried to the US by Italian immigrants 2.(Sociology) any group considered to resemble the Mafia. See alsoBla...
Campania, Apulia, and Basilicata, and spreading after 1900 to Sicily, Italian emigration became a torrent of humanity. From 1876-1924, more than 4.5 million Italians arrived in the United States, and over two million came in the years 1901-1910 alone. Despite these massive ...
Caught On Tape: Violent Italian Mafia Raid! (Walked In Like Something Off A Movie. Family Really Scared At The Bowling Alley) 246,959 Apr 24, 2010 Italian Dude Thought He Could Pull Some 007 Shit But Fails Horribly! 373,432 Sep 09, 2018 ...
"waste management" which, thanks to several decades worth of mafia-based media like The Sopranos, are typically associated with organized crime. Young Tony didn't use the words "crime" or "mafia" or "mob" but the implication was clear: Tony comes from a crime family ... in kayfabe, ...
Italian-Americans establish their presence in art, music, politics, and the military. 1950s Italian-Americans Face Discrimination Italian communities are stereotyped by the press as being violent and controlled by the Mafia. 1989 Italian-Americans are Honored ...
"I could not believe my eyes when I saw the picture," says CBS consultant and Chicago private investigator Paul Ciolino. "There's a photo of Amanda Knox, an honor student from Seattle, hanging along side of photos of Italy's most vicious killers, kidnappers and maf...
A word of advice about italo-american slang from the Sopranos and similar mafia related movies: that’s almost never even remotely similar to italian. Most sicilians would not understand it, either: they are americanizations of the sicilian dialect of a century ago. Only very, very old persons...
If you’ve never eaten focaccia before, it’s basically pizza with a thicker, yeastier crust—something closer to Chicago-style pizza than New York. Even though focaccia is often topped with a small amount of cheese, many bakeries in Italy sell vegan focaccia. When I visited Genoa, the bak...
Crime flourishes in chaos and uncertainty, and nowhere was this more evident than in Sicily and southern Italy during the Allied occupation. Time and again, Public Safety Sub-Commission (PSSC) and other administrative reports made the point that crime, a