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> part of anti-crime efforts to fight the mafia in the 50s and 60s I can't help but wondering if this is merely an ostensible reasoning. Do you happen to have
by r00fus 3y ago
> part of anti-crime efforts to fight the mafia in the 50s and 60s
I can't help but wondering if this is merely an ostensible reasoning. Do you happen to have more information about the "anti-mafia" struggle?
- legitster 3y agohttps://www.jstor.org/stable/1147700 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1147700 https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/labor-racketeering-mafia-and-unions-crime-and-justice-review https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/labor-ra... https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-vcrs/infiltrated-labor-unions https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-vcrs/infiltrated-l... There's also a great interview with former mob boss Michael Franzese where he talked directly about how it worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27p-USEQxe4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27p-USEQxe4 I guess I had the dates wrong. Nothing was done about labor racketeering until Jimmy Hoffa was murdered. And there are still active RICO cases to this day.