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LinksThe American Mafia http://www.onewal.com/ Material presented on this website was gathered through decades of research into the history of American organized crime. The author's childhood interest in the subject blossomed into a full-time obsession in the late 1990s, when he began to organize data that had been gathered on notebook pages and index cards. That effort gave rise to this website in September 2002. Details | Report |
The Mafia in America: Traditional Organized Crime in Transition http://www.richardlindberg.net/articles/mob.html Significant federal prosecutions in the 1980s and 1990s have crippled the power of the 26 Mafia "families" in the U.S. The "old-time" bosses governing every American city where there has been a Mafia presence since before the turn of the last century are either imprisoned, dead, or in exile as a result of sweeping Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (R.I.C.O.) legislation, and the combined efforts of the eighteen regional "strike forces" established between January 1967 and April 1971 under the auspices of the of the Organized Crime and racketeering Section within the criminal division of the U.S. Justice Department. Details | Report |
Gang Land News: America's Expert on the American Mafia http://www.ganglandnews.com/ For nearly four decades, Jerry Capeci has been a reporter, columnist and author based in New York. During those years, he has written breaking news stories about many landmark events, investigative and analytical pieces, and the first column in a daily newspaper devoted exclusively to organized crime. he began writing his "Gang Land" column at The New York Daily News in 1989. Details | Report |
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