Organized crime test 1

Alien Conspiracy Theory

Blames outsiders for outsiders and outside influence on OC in US society

High-Tech Crime

Crimes involving technology

Counterfeiting Currency

Fake money using real machines

Frank Nitti

Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti, was an Italian-American gangster. One of Al Capone's top henchmen, Nitti was in charge of all strong-arm and 'muscle' operations

Charles "Bugs" Moran

His headquarters were located were the St. Valentines Day Massacre

What is Organized Crime?

any group having some manner of a formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities

Bootlegging and Moonshining

illegal distribution of "white liquor"

Intellectual Property Right Violations

infringement is the infringement or violation of an intellectual property right. There are several types of intellectual property rights, such as copyrights, patents, and trademarks

Drug Trafficking

is a global illicit trade involving the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of substances which are subject to drug prohibition laws.

The Arms Trade

is a multilateral treaty that regulates the international trade in conventional weapons. It entered into force on 24 December 2014

Contraband Smuggling

is defined as goods that are against the law to trade or to be imported or exported, or goods that are smuggled or a slave during the Civil War who was behind the Union lines. An example of contraband are drugs being carried across country borders.

Johnny Torrio

known as "Papa Johnny", "The Fox", and "The Immune", was an Italian-American mobster who helped build a criminal empire, the Chicago Outfit, in the 1920s; it was later inherited by his protégé, Al Capone.

Meyer Lansky

known as the "Mob's Accountant", was a major organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States.

Arnold Rothstein

nicknamed "the Brain", was a Jewish-American racketeer, businessman and gambler who became a kingpin of the Jewish mob in New York City

Sam Giancana

notable for being boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957-1966.

Categories of OC behavior

transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for money and profit.

Pablo Escobar

was a Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist. His cartel supplied an estimated 80% of the cocaine smuggled into the United States

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel

was a Jewish American mobster. Siegel was known as one of the most "infamous and feared gangsters of his day".

Dutch Schultz

was a New York City-area Jewish-American mobster of the 1920s and 1930s who made his fortune in organized crime-related activities, including bootlegging and the numbers racket.

Carlo Gambino

was a Sicilian-American mobster and former boss of the Gambino crime family

Joseph Valachi

was an American gangster, notable as the first member of the Italian-American Mafia to publicly acknowledge its existence, and credited with popularization of the term Cosa Nostra

Frank Costello

was an Italian-American Mafia gangster and crime boss. Costello rose to the top of the United States underworld, controlled a vast gambling empire across the United States

John Gotti

was an Italian-American gangster who became boss of the powerful Gambino crime family in New York City. Gotti and his brothers grew up in poverty and turned to a life of crime at an early age.

Joe "The Boss" Masseria

was an early Mafia boss in New York City. He was boss of what is now called the Genovese crime family, one of the New York Mafia's Five Families, from 1922 to 1931

Joseph Colombo

was the boss of the Colombo crime family,

Tammany Hall

was the name given to the Democratic political machine that dominated New York City politics from the mayoral victory of Fernando Wood in 1854 through the election of Fiorello LaGuardia in 1934.