Cosa Nostra

The research demonstrates about how the mafia organized crime structured in society. Mafia is an organized crime who is capable of invading the economy and politics with gaining social acceptance. Mafia is an organization of territorial control and illegal activities like smuggling, weapon, trafficking, and more. Mafia’s groups are also known to provide private security for theft, coercion, and police baiting. The research depicts the case from the blog of Gangster Inc. of the Italian Mafia Boss

and burning orchards across Sicily. The Cosa Nostra was formed in retrieving what was stolen, and killing those caught in burning orange groves. What began as an innocent act turned into an establishment turned bad. My grandfather joined forces with the Cosa Nostra after he had lost everything in a vicious battle and fled with family to New Orleans Louisiana with settling; settling in Old Algiers. My grandfather became an integral part of the Cosa Nostra. He oversaw the “pizzu”; protection money

The Corleonesi changed during this period as a new boss Bernardo Provenzano took reign of the Corleonesi. Before Provenzano, Riina had control of the Corleonesi and while during Riina’s control they took on more of a terrorist look and feel. Provenzano earned the nickname ‘The Tractor’ because of his endless want to find his enemies; however, on the other end of the spectrum, Provenzano was also known as ‘the Accountant’ because of his help with incorporating politics and business into the Corleonesi

situations, they found the way to make it happen. On the other side of the scale was the right-winged Sicilian Mafia or the Cosa Nostra. "Whereas the Italian woman terrorist adopted a consciously exaggerated stand against institutional and societal paternalism, the women of Cosa Nostra have remained trapped inside traditional behavioral patterns." (Jamieson 58) Women of the Cosa Nostra cannot participate directly in

this same time that the US began to see what later became La Cosa Nostra or “our thing,” better known as the American Mafia which was aided by the “thousands of Italian organized crime figures, mostly Sicilian Mafiosi” who came to the United States illegally (Italian Organized Crime). The modern American Mafia is credited to Charles “Lucky” Luciano who came over in the 1920’s (Italian Organized Crime). Luciano structured La Cosa Nostra just like their Sicilian

mafia. But, it is not just that. There are three major organized crime groups of different nationalities that currently operate here in America. Namely, (1)La Cosa Nostra, Italian organized crime, and racketeering; (2) Eurasian/Middle Eastern organized crime; and (3) Asian and African criminal enterprises. La Cosa Nostra, ItaThe La Cosa Nostra (LCN) is the most prominent Italian organized crime group operating in the United States.70 Within the LCN, there

jobs, risking the money that the family did have on gambling. Eventually the family moved to central Brooklyn, which was known as East New York. In East New York, for a poor boy like John Gotti with nothing in the way of prospects, the Cosa Nostra represented something to which he could realistic aspire to gain the power and respect he craved. He started as many young boys did, running errands for the gangsters,

to believe that the Mafia wanted the Axis forces off the island so that they could return to the level of power that they once held. In turn, they solicited the help of the capo di tutti capi, the boss of bosses of the United States branch of Cosa Nostra, the presently jailed Salvatore “Lucky” Luciano. He agreed to help, and pre-arranged the support of the Sicilian Mafia. “The vanguards of the invading Americans carried flags and foulards of yellow silk, embroidered with the letter L (Robb 52)

La Cosa Nostra makes its money by getting involved in legitimate operations such as casinos, labor unions, strip clubs, and restaurants as well as illegal rackets like prostitution, loan-sharking, and narcotics." Capeci, John Mafia, by definition means

they looked out for their family and kept silent sometimes even unto death. They didn’t become an organized crime group until the 1920’s however (Italian Organized Crime). It was around this same time that the US began to see what later became La Cosa Nostra or “our thing,” better known as the American Mafia which was aided by the “thousands of Italian organized crime figures, mostly Sicilian Mafiosi” who came to