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The Honoured Society describes how the US army returned the Mafia to power in 1944, after Mussolini came close to destroying them. It looks at the Mafia in their homeland - how in attempting to preserve Sicily for the Sicilians in the face of countless invasions it infiltrated every aspect of the island's life, corrupting landowners, the police, the judiciary and even the church. In one chilling chapter Norman Lewis details the escapades of eighty-year-old Padre Camelo, who led his monks on sprees of murder and extortion, frequently using the confessional box for transmitting threats.
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Organized crime. --- Gangs. --- Mafia.
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Be sure to see Kill the Irishman--the major motion picture based on Rick Porrello's true-crime masterpiece!A modern warrior known as GreeneWas very quick and smart, and mean.He scrambled hard and fought like hell,And led a charmed existence.They shot him down and blew him upWith most regular persistence.--From The Ballad of Danny Greene Clevelan d, the 1970s:A fearless Irishman boldly muscles in on the Italian-American Mafia--intrepid, charismatic, shrewd, cunning, and armed with a master plan to take over the rackets under the auspices of the Irish banner of which he was so fiercely proud. His name is Greene, his signature color is green, and with his Irish luck for surviving bungled mob attempts on his life, he is seemingly indestructible. In the end, the war with Danny Greene--and his ultimate murder--severely crippled the Italian stranglehold on organized crime, with historic repercussions that outlived the unsinkable Irishman himself.
MAFIA --- CRIME --- TRUE CRIME
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Salvatore Vincent "Bill" Bonanno was the son of Cosa Nostra boss Joseph Bonanno. Although his father never intended for him to be the underboss of the Bonanno crime family, his appointment to high positions in the syndicate precipitated a "mob war" which led to the Bonanno family's exile to Arizona. Later in life, he became a writer and produced films for television about his family.
Mafia --- Organized crime --- Biography. --- Bonanno, Bill.
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Criminology. Victimology --- Mafia --- Organized crime --- Transnational crime --- History.
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