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Mobsters
I’ve always wondered how Mafioso and crime families make all the money to drive Rolls Royce and Ferrari’s. The mafia is a criminal organization that originated in Sicily and slowly assimilated to a less dangerous but altogether worrisome group of people in America. Cosa Nostra, also another name for mafia, had origins dating back to the 18th century. In America they are relatively new, late 19th early 20th century when the immigration boom occurred. Little did people know that this small group of Sicilian immigrants would plague the large cities for several years to come. The Cosa Nostra consists of several hundred crime families, these families control small villages, towns, or a neighborhood in a large city. Cosa Nostra is Latin for Our Thing; the general public created the term mafia. Mafia members also call themselves Men of Honour, as well as The Honoured Society. The mafia had several very important figures, as well as unimportant ones. When looking at the accomplishments of these mobsters it can be very difficult to stop them (Database).
One of the most famous mobsters of all time would be Al Capone, his full name is Alphonse Gabriel Capone born on the 17th of January 1899. Severely injured in a 1925 assassination attempt by the North Side Gang, the shaken Torrio (previous leader) turned over his business to Capone and returned to Italy. Capone was notorious during the Prohibition Era for his control of large portions of the Chicago underworld, which provided the Outfit (the name of Capone’s gang) with an estimated ten million dollars per year in revenue. Most of his wealth came from illegal activities, and the largest moneymaker was the sale of liquor. However, because Capone was infamous, it caught the attention of Capone's rivals, particularly his bitter rivalries with North Side gangsters such as Dean O’Banion, Bugs Moran and lieutenant Earl "Hymie" Weiss. His rivals tried to assassinate him several times throughout the...
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