The American Mafia, a separate entity, rose to power in the Prohibition era of the 1920s and soon flourished. Sicilians banded into groups to protect themselves by the 19th century, some of these groups emerged as private armies that extorted protection money from landowners and evolved into the criminal enterprise known today as the Sicilian Mafia.
The Mafia evolved over centuries in Sicily, an island off the southern tip of Italy that until 1861 was ruled by a line of foreign invaders. Taking Down the Mafia, The 1970s & Beyondīased in Italy and the U.S., the Mafia is a network of organized-crime groups active in a range of underworld ventures, from drug trafficking to murder.Declaring War on the Mafia, The 1950s & 1960s.
0 kommentar(er)
