Genovese crime family

In 1978, The Pennsylvania Crime Commission (PCC) was created by the Legislature to investigate organized crime and public corruption in the Commonwealth. According to the PCC, the definition of organized crime is defined as follows: The unlawful activity of an association trafficking in illegal goods or services, including but not limited to gambling, prostitution, loansharking, controlled substances, labor racketeering, or other unlawful activities or any continuing criminal conspiracy of other

Reading Reponses: Barbara Huttmann's Crime of Compassion and Martin Gansberg's Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder and Didn't Call Police Even people who have not read Martin Gansberg's article about the murder of Kitty Genovese are probably familiar with its contents. On March 14, 1964, in Kew Gardens in New York, a killer stalked Kitty Genovese and began a series of violent attacks against her. These attacks lasted for an extended period of time and were witnessed by no less than thirty-eight individuals

Crime groups used the fragile times and division of the people to solicit money from gay clientele, and by the mid 60’s the Genovese crime family controlled more than half of the Greenwich Village gay bar including Stonewall Inn. Like some of the other inns Stonewall was a registered “bottle bar” or a bar that did not require a liquor license because its audience were to bring their own liquor. To keep the Inns false exclusivity and privacy the Genovese family would bribe the Sixth

and does still in Italy. To understand this organized crime, one must begin to understand how it came to be organized in the first place. During the medieval times in Sicily, Arabs invaded the land and native Sicilians fled and took refuge in the hills. Some of these refugees formed a

1900 A rise in crime levels as gangs grow stronger. Monk Eastman's Gang starts to pose a real threat to Paul Kelly's Five Points Gang. 1907 Michael Cassius McDonald dies and leaves a criminal industry in Chicago in the hands of opportunist gangsters coming in from all over the country. 1911 Mayer Lansky arrives in the U.S. and immediately starts to analyze conditions in the country with regard to Italian crime families with the purpose of getting involved in their affairs. 1919 Al Capone leaves

During the 1960’s to be gay in the United States was essentially a crime. It was the time of the “Lavender Scare,” in which thousands of people were fired from the federal government for no other reason than their sexuality. The fear stemmed from Cold War concerns that homosexuals would be a “security risk,” exploitable by communists (Sherouse) (Sears). Dozens of anti-gay legislation was in existence, specifically prohibiting employment of “homosexuals and other sex perverts” in civil service positions

Salvatore Lucania was born on November 24, 1897 in Sicily, Italy; almost ten years later, he began a new life of crime and prosperity in New York City’s lower east side. Upon arrival, he could not speak english; he bullied the other kids into paying him for protection and participated in drug dealing. One day, Lucania was abducted, beaten, stabbed, and left for dead; miraculously, he survived. This rather fortunate recovery led him to become known as Lucky Luciano (“Lucky Luciano Biography.com.”

The 1920s was a decade of crime. Nobody was safe from gangsters like Al “Scarface” Capone and Charles “Lucky” Luciano. Bootlegging, murder, and stealing names just of the few activities that gangsters took part in. Prohibition only made crime worse. Making alcohol illegal didn't make people stop drinking, it only made people sell it illegally. This also padded the pockets of these mobsters, providing them with the funds to literally out gun the authorities. With money comes power, and gangsters had

Fox-Genovese says of Chopin’s use of dialect: “Again, I think it's easy to miss that Chopin was above all interested in capturing how people spoke, any people. In other words, her white characters, even her upper class white characters, each has a distinct pattern of speech. There's nothing as dramatic as the dialect. And one could say. . . that she didn't always get it perfectly. But she had coolly listened and what she was trying to capture was how these characters sounded.” (Fox-Genovese).

Salvatore Maranzano: Organizer of the Families Salvatore Maranzono was born in 1868 Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Italy and died on September 10, 1931 in New York City. Maranzono was a “Moustache Pete” who immigrated to the United States and started up his own family-gang known as the Castellammare gang (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). A bloody conflict between the Castellammare gang and the Morello gang for power soon took place in 1930. After about a year of fighting the Morello gang