business of organized crime

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• Organized crime — Crime syndicate redirects here. For the DC Comics group of villains, see Crime Syndicate. For other uses, see Organized crime (disambiguation). Al Capone, a name often associated with organized crime …   Wikipedia

• organized crime — n. a system or organization of people and groups engaged in criminal activities * * * Crime committed on a national or international scale by a criminal association; also, the associations themselves. Such associations engage in offenses such as… …   Universalium

• Organized crime in Minneapolis — first attracted national attention in 1903 when mobster Mayor Doc Ames (1842 1911) was exposed by Lincoln Steffens in the book, The Shame of the Cities. Steffens account and subsequent trials revealed a police department recruited from ex felons… …   Wikipedia

• Organized crime in Hong Kong — is not as prevalent as in its Chinese mainland neighbour, but it does exist. Hong Kong is generally known as one of the safest cities in the world with a crime rate at roughly the same level as Singapore and lower than New York, London and… …   Wikipedia

• Organized crime in Italy — Italian Mafia Founded 1800 s [1] Ethnicity Italians Membership 25,000 members 250,000 affiliates [2] Since their appearance in the middle of the 19th century, Italian organized crime and criminal organizations have infiltrated the social …   Wikipedia

• Organized crime in Chicago — The following is a timeline of Organized Crime in Chicago. see also: Timeline of organized crime Contents 1 Events Timeline 1.1 Pre 1910s 1.2 1910s 1.3 …   Wikipedia

• Organized crime —    There has always been organized crime in Russia. In the last days of the tsars, criminal gangs flourished. In the first days of the 1917 Revolution, many of their members joined the Red Guards and the Cheka. After the civil war, they were… …   Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence

• Organized crime and corruption reporting project — The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) founded in 2006 is a consortium of investigative centers operating in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. OCCRP is the only full time investigative reporting organization that specializes… …   Wikipedia

• Organized Crime Control Act — The Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 (Pub.L. 91 452, 84 Stat. 922 October 15, 1970), was an Act of Congress sponsored by Democratic Senator John L. McClellan[1] and signed into law by U.S. President Richard Nixon. The Act was the… …   Wikipedia

• organized crime — Syndicate Syn di*cate, n. [Cf. F. syndicat, LL. syndicatus.] 1. The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics. Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster] 2. An association of persons officially authorized to undertake some duty or to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Jewish-American organized crime — Largely originating from the immigration from Eastern Europe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jewish American organized crime (sometimes referred to as the Kosher Nostra a pun on the Italian term Cosa Nostra Kosher Mafia , the… …   Wikipedia