Publisher's Synopsis
In "Killing the Mob" a book written by O'Reilly and Dugard, these legendary criminals and their true-life escapades were turned into a read that rivals the most riveting crime novel yet...Prior to the prohibition era (1920-1933) gambling and prostitution among others were organized and dominated by big-city political machines aided by street gangs that proliferated among the urban poor. The gangs were local entities serving because the military wing of corrupt political organizations. They engaged voter fraud - voting early and sometimes - and intimidation of political opponents. In short, they were violent errand boys at rock bottom of an organizational pyramid that featured political bosses at the highest .During the 1920s Prohibition period, when the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibited the deal, assembling and transportation of cocktails, Italian-American packs (alongside other ethnic groups) entered the flourishing contraband alcohol business and altered themselves into refined criminal ventures, gifted at pirating, evasion and paying off police and other public authorities. Organized crime is taken into account to be a changing and versatile phenomenon. Many of the advantages of globalization like easier and faster communication, movement of finances and international travel, have also created opportunities for transnational organized criminal groups to flourish, diversify and expand their activities.
