Organized crime
Hoffa
A former warehouse worker and labor rabble rouser from Detroit had a lot of friends in traditional Italian organized crime. He became the national president of the above union in 1957. He and Attorney General Robert Kennedy were enemies. He disappeared in 1975. He was James _____.
Whitey; Bulger; Winter Hill Gang; Boston
A notorious Irish gangster ran an organized crime group that often competed and fought with the Italian mafia. He fled to another part of the country after his indictments and escaped capture for about 16 years. He was eventually convicted and sentenced to life in federal prison, where he was beaten to death by other inmates in October of 2018. His nickname was "______", his full name was James _____, his crime organization was called the ____, and his territory was the City of _____.
18th
After decades of struggle, the temperance forces won with the abolition of the recreational use of alcohol as prohibited by the _____ amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Torrio
Al Capone's boss and mentor when he first went to work in Chicago was Johnny _____.
politicians of Tammany Hall recognized the key role that immigrant populations had in elections
Alliances between the NYC politicians, gamblers, and gangsters began and proliferated when the _____
Colonial Pirates
Although the beginning of the organized crime phenomenon in America is often discussed in the context of Prohibition, it actually began with the _____.
usury
Another common term for loan sharking or shylocking is usually the term for the crime violation itself. The word is _____.
Schedule I
At the present time, marijuana is a _____ controlled substance in the federal criminal laws regulating illicit narcotic, along with heroin.
John Gotti
Before this organized crime boss was sentenced to prison in 1992, he was considered the prototype of the new breed of Italian American Criminal. He was ____.
Alien Conspiracy Theory
By the early 1900s, the Borough of Manhattan in NYC had been split into two principal gang territories. The fact that the earlier of the two gangs was formed by Jewish immigrants, while the other gang was comprised mostly of Italians, least supports which of the following theories of organized crime?
Warlocks
Central Florida's home grown OMC or 1% bikers are called the _____.
Currency Transaction Reports (CTR's); Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR's)
Currency and Monetary Instrument Reports (CMIR's), Form 8300s, and two other U.S. report processes form the core of the money laundering enforcement efforts. These other two reporting processes are (acronyms or full titles are okay): _____ and _____
Japanese Yakusa and the Chinese Triads
Depending on which Commission or other authority is doing the assessment, they would all probably agree that two organized crime phenomena comprise the largest array of crime syndicates in the world, and these are:
"Bumpy" Johnson
He ruled over the Harlem underworld from the 1930s until his death from natural causes in 1968. He was Ellsworth ____.
taxing legitimate an illegitimate businesses OR taxing other criminals and citizens
How do organized crime Bosses, the Godfathers and Dons, make their money? By the time they get to that level, they are usually not committing crimes anymore, with a few exceptions. They are ______.
Eliot Ness
In 1957 he published a book about his experiences and the way that he helped put Al Capone out of business. The book, a subsequent TV series, and a movie were entitled "The Untouchables". He was _____.
Camorra
In Italy, the term "Mafia" is often associated with the area of Italy that is the western part of Sicily. What is organized crime term for the Naples area?
Fourth Ward
In the 1860s, Gallus Mag performed her duties as a bouncer with a penchant for collecting ears at One-armed Charly Monell's Hole-in-the-wall saloon in the NY neighborhoods known as the _____.
Masseria
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the struggles for Italian organized crime dominance in NYC involved two powerful mob bosses. One of these men was Guiseppi ______.
Maranzano
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the struggles for Italian organized crime dominance in NYC involved two powerful mob bosses. One of these men was Salvatore
Pablo Escobar
Who was the founder of the Medellin Cartel who was gunned down on a city rooftop in 1993 after a joint effort by Colombian police and the U.S. military?
Salvatore Gravano
Who was the trusted second in command, nicknamed "the bull", who cooperated with the government and testified against the head of the Gambino crime family at his final trial?
Meyer Lansky
Nowhere is the mutually beneficial relationship between organized crime and the legitimate business community clearer than in the career of this person and the many opportunities that he and his associates provided for organized crime to move into business in a way that benefitted both. He was ____.
surveillance
One of the 3 investigative techniques that are most important when it comes to organized crime investigations is _____.
Bonnano
One of the five New York LCN families is the ______ family.
Colombo
One of the five New York LCN families is the ______ family.
Gambino
One of the five New York LCN families is the ______ family.
Genovese
One of the five New York LCN families is the ______ family.
Lucchese
One of the five New York LCN families is the ______ family.
informants
One of the three investigative techniques that are most important when it comes to organized crime investigations is/are _____.
Thomas Dewey
One powerful prosecutor and politician in NY of the 1930s and 1940s pursued Lucky Luciano until he was imprisoned and later deported back to Italy. This man later ran for President in 1948 and nearly won. He was _____.
the numbers
One seemly innocuous crime provided a lucrative source of organized crime income and local employment over the years. What is known as "bolita", "policy", or "lottery" in some cultural neighborhoods in America is often referred to as _____.
choke point
Organized crime is drawn to labor-intensive industries that offer an opportunity to control related component businesses through a ______.
speakeasies
Prohibition led to the development and the huge popularity of _____.
bid rigging
Restraint of trade laws designed to stop practices that are anticompetitive under the provisions of Title XV of the United States Code prohibited price fixing, complementary bidding, bid rotation, market division, and _____.
fuel oil tax scams
Russian organized crime members operating in the US since the fall of Soviet communim have perpetrated a number of profitable organized crime operations. One of these produced about 140-million dollars in illicit profits through _____.
POBOB
Shortly after World War Two, a group of California veterans formed a motorcycle club and called themselves the ____, coming to the attention of the country after an alarming 1947 incident in the town of Hollister that was made into the movie "The Wild One", starring Marlon Brando.
Arnold Rothstein
The "Black Sox Scandal" implicated this gangster, and he was called to testify in Chicago in 1920. After arriving at the courthouse in a NY entertainment producer, he convinced a grand jury that he was innocent. He was _____.
Nigeria
The African country that has come to symbolize a high level of expertise and a relentless intention to victimize people all over the world with financial fraud schemes is ____.
Al Capone
The City of Cicero, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and the Hawthorne Hotel are usually associated with which gangster?
President Clinton
The Federal civil racketeering statutes designed to oversee such unions were focused on corrupted locals such as Buffalo, NY, but this enforcement effort was later reduced, coincidentally, after LIUNA helped to fund the inauguration for ____.
Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union
The HEREIU was established in Chicago in 1891. It grew to consist of 235 locals with 260,000 members in the U.S. and Canada. Some locals were more dominated by organized crime than others. The acronym stands for the _____.
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
The IBT was a very important union with extensive domination by organized crime interests for many years. It once had 2.2-million members in the U.S., and today it continues to be the largest union in the country, representing about 1.4-million workers. The acronym stands for the _____.
Laborers' International Union of North America
The LIUNA membership in the Building Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO is more than 600,000 strong in the United States and Canada. The Midwest and the Northeast is legendary. This acronym stands for the _____.
labor racketeering; Bill of Rights or union members
The Landrum-Griffin Act passed in 1959 was designed to attack _____ and to establish a _____.
drug trafficking
The President's Commission on Organized Crime (1986) concluded that which of the following was "the single most serious organized crime problem in the U.S. and the largest source of income for organized crime?"
1933
The Prohibition era lasted from early 1920 to late ____.
krysha
The Russian term for extortion though charging money for protection is _____ in our Roman alphabet and (Russian translation) in the Cyrillic alphabet, and it literally means "roof".
WWII
The U.S. government established a relationship with traditional organized crime groups in an effort to secure their assistance during what period in American history?
Apalachin
The _____ Incident caused considerable embarrassment for J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, since he had previously asserted with confidence that there was no such thing as organized crime in America.
SCU
The final decades of the 20th century gave rise to a new mafia-style organized crime group in southern Italy. As time went by, this group which has close ties to the Balkans adopted strong clan structures. The group is the ____.
Irish
The first major immigrant group to enter the U.S. was the _____.
Bandidos
The four main criminal motorcycle gangs that have operated in the U.S. since the end of WWII and the POBOB are the Hells Angels, the Outlaws, the Pagans, and the:
Albania
The heel of the Italian boot is situated as a long peninsula that points into the Adriatic and Ionian seas forming the Strait of Otranto that separates the eastern shores of Italy from the country of _____.
factoring or smurfing
The ingenious money laundering criminals put together a scheme to do bank transactions without triggering these reporting requirements, they hired old ladies and other inconspicuous people to make smaller deposits and withdrawals in and out of many different accounts, a technique known as ______.
The Volstead Act
The law which implemented the alcohol restrictions of the new Prohibition Amendment had to be passed by the Congress after the required 75% of the state legislatures ratified the amendment. This law prohibiting the consumption of alcohol in the US was called ____.
sociopath
The members of organized crime prey on innocent victims and betray each other, all without any conscience whatsoever. This is because they have the personality traits of a ____.
have much better odds
The traditional lotteries that were illegal and run by organized crime currently coexist with the legalized lotteries run by state governments. oth are popular, but the illegal lotteries have two main advantages. They don't withhold taxes or report the winnings, and they ____.
greedy
The word "avaricious" could certainly be used to describe the personalities of organized crime members, and the word means ______.
Outlaws
Their arch enemies and fellow Florida OMC organization from Southeast Florida are known as the ____.
Al Capone
This person caused Chicago to be epitomized as one of the most ruthless and crime-ridden cities in the nation.
Teamsters (IBT) + International Longshoremen's Association (ILA)
Two legal organizations which the text uses as examples of those that have symbiotic relationships with organized crime are _____.
Falcone
Two very brave Italian crime fighters lost their lives to huge retaliatory bombings in 1992. One was Giovanni ______ killed along with his wife and 3 of their bodyguards when 1000 pounds of TNT exploded under the roadway on which they were driving.
Borsellino
Two very brave Italian crime fighters lost their lives to huge retaliatory bombings in 1992. One was killed along with hi wife and 3 of their bodyguards when 1000 pounds of TNT eploded under the roadway on which they were driving. The other, Paolo ____ was also blown up on the street later that year.
10,000
U.S. money laundering enforcement efforts require one of several different government forms to be filled out when the amount of a single transaction in cash at a financial institution, business, or trade exceeds ______.
21st
What constitutional amendment ended the era of Prohibition?
"thieves with a code of honor"
What is the English meaning of the Russian organied crime term "vory v zakone"?
vig or vigorish
When I borrow money from a loan shark at usurious interest rates, maybe 7% per week, what is that interest payment called?
New York City
Where was Al Capone born?
They were spontaneous occurrences without a fixed structure or leadership
Which of the following best describes the structure and leadership in the earliest New York gangs?
'Ndrangheta
Which of the following names identifies an organized crime group operating in the southern part of Italy in the far south portion of the boot in the poorest Italian province of Calabria?
Boston Syndicate Commission
Which of the following was not a major commission or investigative body that examined the organized crime issue in America from the early 1950s to the mid-1980s?
La Cosa Nostra
While many people use the term "mafia" to refer to Sicilian organized crime, the members and law enforcement more commonly use the Italian phrase ____.
Joe Valachi
Who testified as a made Italian Mafia member, before the Senator McClellan Commission in 1963, letting the world know how they referred to themselves?
Arnold Rothstein
Who was dubbed "the Brain" and is considered to be the original "Don" of traditional organized crime?
Angelo Bruno
Who was the "Gentle Don" who ruled the Italian organized crime interests in Philadelphia from 1958-1980 when he was murdered?
