Gotham unbound : how New York City was liberated from the grip of organized crime /

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Cosa Nostra. Organized crime. The Mob. Call it what you like, no other crime group has infiltrated labor unions and manipulated legitimate industries like Italian organized crime families. One cannot understand the history and political economy of New York City-or most other major American cities-in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jacobs, James B.
Other Authors: Friel, Coleen, Radick, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©1999.
Subjects:
Racketeering > New York (State) > New York.
Mafia > New York (State) > New York.
Business enterprises > Corrupt practices > New York (State) > New York.
Organized crime investigation > New York (State) > New York.
Racket > New York (État) > New York.
Mafia > New York (État) > New York.
Entreprises > Pratiques déloyales > New York (État) > New York.
Crime organisé > Enquêtes > New York (État) > New York.
TRUE CRIME > Organized Crime.
Business enterprises > Corrupt practices
Mafia
Organized crime investigation
Racketeering
Georganiseerde misdaad.
New York (State) > New York
New York (stad)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A Cosa Nostra outfit: seven decades of mob rule in the garment district
  • Fishy business: the Mafia and the Fulton Fish market
  • The taking of John F. Kennedy Airport
  • Exhibiting corruption: the Javits Convention Center
  • Carting away a fortune: Cosa Nostra and the waste-hauling industry
  • Building a Cosa Nostra fiefdom: the construction industry
  • Conclusion to part I
  • Liberating the garment district
  • Freeing the Fulton Fish Market
  • Purging the mob from John F. Kennedy Airport
  • Ridding the Javits Convention Center of organized crime
  • Defeating Cosa Nostra in the waste-hauling industry
  • Cleansing the construction industry
  • Conclusion to part II.

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