American organized crime (or the Mafia/Mob as it is known by some) begins not in the streets of Manhattan or Chicago or other big cities as some like to think. It begins as the seemingly innocent protection of Sicilian landowners when they are away from their farms. By the 1800’s, these ‘protectors’ had become corrupt, bullying people for their so-called protection and running other illegal activities all throughout Sicily. When the laws of Benito Mussolini became increasingly strict, so strict that their illegal activities became hard to run, many of these men moved to the United States where they could continue to bully people and make their money the way they had been doing for years. This is where the ‘American Mafia’ begins.
It is believed that the real start of organized crime in America was with the start of Prohibition, The Eighteenth Amendment, which stated “After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of......

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Title: The History Of Organized Crime In America
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