Organized Crime
Wheel, Chain, Enterprise Conspiracies
Conspiracy charges allow those involved in planning and directing an organized criminal venture to be held criminal responsible even though they didn't physically participate in the criminal activity there are three basic types of criminal conspiracies which are?
Camorra
The traditional mafia groups in Italy are clustered on the island of Sicily and in several areas on the mainland or "boot." In the Naples area along the west coast near Mount Vesuvius are the criminal activities controlled by the organized crime group known as the Neapolitan _______?
Currency financial Report
Money laundering becomes necessary when an illegal enterprise generates so much profit that it attracts the attention of the IRS and foreign regulators. US law now requires institution to submit ________ when more than $10,000 is involved.
Surveillance, Informants and Financials
Most of the time, the process for successful investigating complicated organized crime activities is time consuming and labor intensive. There are three fundamental techniques that are often necessary when such an investigation is conducted . The most general terms for these classes of techniques are?
The Golden Traingle
Occasionally, independent drug syndicates come together into a cartel because of a need for highly specialized services. For example, opium growing warlords in this are of south east Asia established working relationships with the Chinese triads because they needed to move their opium products to markets worldwide and to plunder their profits. What is this drug trafficking area called?
Bonnano
One of the New York LCN families is the ______ Family?
Colombo
One of the New York LCN families is the ______ Family?
Gambino
One of the New York LCN families is the ______ Family?
Genovese
One of the New York LCN families is the ______ Family?
Lucchese
One of the New York LCN families is the ______ Family?
Lucky Luciano
What New York organized crime member had both of the two competing bosses murdered after on of them had ordered him to have a beating that nearly killed him?
21st
What constitutional amendment ended the era of Prohibition?
Thieves with a code of honor
What is the English meaning of the Russian organized crime term vory v zakone?
Jamaican Posse
What organized crime phenomenon has caribbean roots is known for excluding middle men since this increase their profit margin?
La Cosa Nostra
When wise guy Joseph Valechi testified, he revealed the nickname that the Italian mafia used to refer to themselves. often referred to by its LCN abbreviation by police investigators, the complete term without the abbreviation is?
New York City
Where was Al Capone Born?
Angelo Bruno
Who was the "Gentle Don" who ruled the Italian organized crime interest in Philadelphia from 1958 to 1980 when he was murdered?
Arnold Rothestein
Who was the man some called the brain who was considered to be the original don of traditional organized crime in New York City?
Thomas Dewey
One powerful prosecutor and politician in the New York of the 1930's and 1940's 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?
Speakeasies
Prohibition led to the development and the huge popularity of?
Usury
Another common term for loan sharking or shy locking is usually the term for the crime violation itself. The word is?
Born to Kill
Vietnameses organized crime groups in New York City were eventually united by David Thai into a confederation that adopted the name BTK, which meant?
Paul Kelly
At the end of the era of the Irish Gangs of New York, Jewish and Italian immigrants were beginning to rise to position of prominence among organized criminals. They changed their names to sound more Irish and fought with each other. They were Monk Eastman and?
Apalachin
The _________ incident caused considerable embarrassment for j. Edgar Hoover's FBI, since he has previously asserted with confidence that there was no such thing as organized crime in America.
Vigorish
A common type of loansharking arrangement is the six for five loan. Say the loan is for 10,000$. The borrower would owe 12,000$ on week later. if the borrower cant repay he entire debt he must pay the interest of 2,000$ without exception, every week. This interest payment is know as the "Juice" or the?
23
A federal grand jury is a body that consist of?
18th
After Decades of struggle, the temperance forces win with the abolition of the recreational use of alcohol as prohibited by the _____ Amendment to the US Constitution?
Torrio
Al Capone's boss and mentor when he first went to work in Chicago was Johnny ______?
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?
Nicky Barnes
Another African American drug Kingpin also capture a significant share of the Harlem heroin market in the 1970's by forming a drug trafficking council. He was?
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 criminals. He was?
Harrison Act
Drugs that we now characterize as illicit were largely unregulated and legal prior to 1914 and the passage of the?
Nativism
During earlier periods in american history when this prejudice was rampant, blaming immigrants for societal problems was called?
Laborers International Union of North America
Formed in 1903 the LIUNA is one of fifteen US and Canadian unions that form the Building Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO. It has about 800,000 members working in the US and Canada. LIUNA Stands for?
Neil Dellacroce
He was Carlo Gambino's under boss but he was passed over for leadership of the family when the boss became ill and died. He was a loyal old school LCN member, however, and he accepted this. He became the boss of the crew that included John Gottti. He was?
Elliot Ness
In 1957 he published a book about his experiences and the way that he helped but Al Capone out of business. The book, a TV series, and a move were entitled The Untouchables. he was?
Bandidos
In 2008 two members of what outlaw motorcycle gang received life sentences form a court in the German city of Munster for the murder of a member of a rival motorcycle gang?
Nigeria
In recent years, the most populous country located on the African continent has developed some very active and prolific groups who are involved in a variety of financial fraud operations. this country is?
Elisworth "Bumby" Johnson
In the 1930's and 1940's an African american leader emerged as a powerful organized crime boss in Harlem. He was associated with a powerful African caribbean woman who ran the numbers racket in that part of the New York City. this legendary woman was Madame St. Clair and he was?
Masseria
In the late 1920's and the early 1930's the struggles for Italian organized crime dominance in New York City involved two powerful mob bosses. one of these man was Giuseppe _____?
Maranzano
In the late 1920's and the early 1930's the struggles for Italian organized crime dominance in New York City involved two powerful mob bosses. one of these man was Salvatore _____?
Virginia Hill
Italian mob boss Lucky Luciano and his close Jewish associate Meyer Lansky provided money and support to the flamboyant Bugsy Siegel as he tried to developed the Flaming Casino in Las Vegas Siegel's girlfriend was quite well known in her day and she was?
48
J. Edgar Hoover served as the head of the FBI and its precursor, the Bureau of Investigation, for how many years?
Cultural and Entrepurenial
Jerome Skolnick and he colleagues distinguished between two gang types. These are
Waste Managment
Racketeering can help a business to deal with intense competition by running every other business off. As the popular HBO series the sopranos was scripted to illustrate, on such industry in the New York and New Jersey areas where that strategy involved La Cosa Nostra was?
Fuel old tar scam
Russian organized crime members operation in the US since the fall of the Soviet communism have sometimes worked with the traditional american mafia to perpetrate major financial schemes. One major operation reportedly cost the government approx. 140 million this fraud was the?
Chechnya
Russian troops fought vigorously for control of one of their territories during the 1990's in this region known as?
Governed by explicit rules and regulations
Select one of text author Abadisnky eight characteristic or attributes of organized crime from the list of responses below
Hierarchial
Select one of text author Abadisnky eight characteristic or attributes of organized crime from the list of responses below
Limited or Exslusive Membership
Select one of text author Abadisnky eight characteristic or attributes of organized crime from the list of responses below
Monopolistic
Select one of text author Abadisnky eight characteristic or attributes of organized crime from the list of responses below
Nonideological
Select one of text author Abadisnky eight characteristic or attributes of organized crime from the list of responses below
Perputates itself
Select one of text author Abadisnky eight characteristic or attributes of organized crime from the list of responses below
Mala Prohibita
Some crimes are not organized as criminal offenses in other parts of the world, or they may not have been crimes in america in the past. when we make these behaviors criminal offenses, the Latin term used to describe them is?
Frank Lucas
The 2007 movie of Americana gangster starred Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe and the Harlem drug trafficking career of?
World War II
The US government established a relationship with traditional organized crime groups in an effort to secure their assistance during what period in american history?
Zetas
The Mexican drug cartels have become rather powerful and extremely violent in recent times. one of the most powerful groups began with the former special ops soldier form the Mexican military who provided enforcement services to the gulf cartel and later broke way to form their own dominant organizations with extremely violent tactics. This drug trafficking organization is called Los _____?
Enterprise, Pattern
The RICO statute exists in the federal system and in states like Florida. This fairly new Mala Prohibita crime targets racketeering and defines that criminal offense very broadly. To prove that this crime occurred, the government must establish that the defendant was part of a/an?
Golden Crecent
The countries of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran form another fertile area for the production of opium and this area is known as?
Money, Narcotics
The drug trafficking cycle that can be observed when the phenomenon is subjected to system analysis is divided into two primary aspects?
Disruption
The enforcement goal is to create some _____ of this cycle?
Irish
The first major immigrant group to enter the US was the?
Los Zetas
The former Mexican and Guatemalan Special forces soldiers who worked for the gulf cartel and recently began a series of independent ventures punctuated by extremely violent measures are known as?
Outlaws
The four main criminal motorcycle gangs that have operated in the US since the end of WWII and the POBOB(Pissed off bastards of Bloomington) are the Hells Angel, the Pagans, the Bandidos and the?
Joseph Bonnano
The history of most types of organized crime in America teaches us that establishing high profile as a mob leader is bad for business and likely to attract too much attention from law enforcement authorities. This New York City mafia boss and member of his family allowed several books to be published about their criminal exploits. he disappeared in 1966 and later claimed to have been kidnapped, sparking the banana war revolt and his retirement. He was?
Sweet Heart Deal
The labor racketeering crime may sound complicated but a little careful though will largely simplify the concepts. Three such schemes constitute the bulk of these offenses. One involves what is called the?
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 legislature ratified the amendment. this law prohibiting the consumption of alcohol in the untied states 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?
Fulton Fish MAaket
The text book gives an example of labor racketeering by organized crime in NYC where these criminals controlled an entire industry. During the prohibition era mob boss Joseph Socks Lanza of the Genovese family decided that labor racketeering was safer and less competitive than bootlegging. He set out to control the Unites Seafood Workers Union he became the head of the Union local and extorted money from every deal at the?
Zips
The text describes the stormy relationships between immigrants from the criminal organizations of southern Italy and established members of the american mafia with the slang terms for the recent arrival that is?
Colors
The official insignia of an outlaw motorcycle club are known as?
Drug Trafficking
The presidents commission on organized crime concluded that which of the following was the single most serious organized crime problem in the US and the largest source of income for organized crime?
1933
The prohibition era lasted from the beginning of 1920 through the year?
110
The same term is used in gambling. A typical sports bookmaking wager requires a losing bettor to pay ______ for a 100$ bet.
Use immunity
There many ways that a grand jury can be structured and many rules that can govern its activities of course, depending on the various state jurisdictions. The federal grand juries that function under the organized crime act of 1970 last 18 months with extensions possible up to 36 months. the grand jury can subpoena a witness and ask them to answer on 5th amendment grounds, this lack of cooperation can be overcome however, when the grand jury provided this witness with the limited grant of?
Yakuza
These Japanese criminal organizations are numerous and they have formed a large confederation that some argue is the most powerful organized crime entity in the world. They are?
Castellano
This organized crime boss was murders by John Gottin in 1985 so that he could take over this New York Family. He was "Big Paulie ____"?
Extortion
Thomas Schelling is a political economist who has studied organized crime, and he has stated that the primary business of organized crime is?
Giovanni Falcone
Two brave men who led the Italian "Anti-Mafia" prosecution efforts were assassinated in 1992. One of them was?
Paolo Borsellino
Two brave men who led the Italian "Anti-Mafia" prosecution efforts were assassinated in 1992. One of them was?
James "Whitey Bulger"
Two brothers, one was the University President of Massachusetts while the other was a violent crime boss, both grew up in South Boston, this criminal brother disappeared in 1995 and became one of the FBI most wanted for the next 16 yrs. Who was he?
Chokepoint
Two unions that comprise the big four of labor racketeering are the ILA, the international Longshoreman Association and the IBT the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Some labor racketeering activity is really business racketeering also , such as the organization crime activities found in the garment meat industry they employ a______ Strategy?
Other Criminals
it is ________ who are the victims of traditional organized crime, according to Schelling.
Hobbs Act
one important group of federal criminal laws used to attack organized criminal behavior that interferes with interstate commerce and is known as?
Blakey
the abbreviations for the RICO statute may stand for Edwards G. Robinson Gangster movie character, but it is officially an abbreviation for racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act and the main author was Notre Dame law professor G. Robert_____?
Pablo Escobar
who was the founder of the Medellin Cartel who was gunned down on a city rooftop in 1993 in a shoot out with the Colombian police?
