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... scholarly works in the field , Organized Crime in America : organized crime is not the " child of the Italians , or Irish , or Jews , or the Puerto Ricans - although it has drawn recruits from all these , and other , ethnic groups .
... scholarly works in the field , Organized Crime in America : organized crime is not the " child of the Italians , or Irish , or Jews , or the Puerto Ricans - although it has drawn recruits from all these , and other , ethnic groups .
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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 Bantam books |
| Author | Peter Maas |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Putnam, 1968 |
| ISBN | 0399108327, 9780399108327 |
| Length | 285 pages |
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