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siders - sociologists , district attorneys , crime reporters , ex - detectives , and so on . Valachi told the story in dispassionate detail for the first time as only an insider can tell it - often brutal , sometimes funny , always real ...
siders - sociologists , district attorneys , crime reporters , ex - detectives , and so on . Valachi told the story in dispassionate detail for the first time as only an insider can tell it - often brutal , sometimes funny , always real ...
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Organized crime is America's biggest business . According to the best estimates of the Department of Justice , admittedly an educated guess , it grosses better than $ 40 billion a year . Even if such a staggering statistic was off by as ...
Organized crime is America's biggest business . According to the best estimates of the Department of Justice , admittedly an educated guess , it grosses better than $ 40 billion a year . Even if such a staggering statistic was off by as ...
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Prior to the advent of Kennedy as Attorney General , it had been paying little attention to organized crime . In 1959 , for example , only four agents in its New York office were assigned to this area , and their work was primarily in ...
Prior to the advent of Kennedy as Attorney General , it had been paying little attention to organized crime . In 1959 , for example , only four agents in its New York office were assigned to this area , and their work was primarily in ...
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| Title | The Valachi Papers |
| Author | Peter Maas |
| Published | 1968 |
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