My Assigned Blog is on the Mafia inside of the United States. Throughout my Report we will be breaking off into the New York City and Chicago.
The mafia is a group of organized crime made up of italians and Italian- Americans. The Mafia members don't refer to themselves as The Mafia, they refer to themselves as Cosa Nostra which means Our thing in Italian. The Mafia excelled at gambling, murder, prostitution, scamming, protection scamming, fencing, and blackmailing. In the beginning the Mafia hated drugs and dealing of drugs, but after time they figure out that there is a lot of money in it.
During the time after the civil war, there was a lot of immigrants coming in, specifically from Italy and Sicily. At that the time, there was a Sicilian Mafia that was successful. Most Mafia gangs had fronts such as Pizza shops or Bistro. In the Game Grand Theft Auto III the mafia was hidden behind a auto shop, a bistro, and a strip club. There are other media referring to the mafia like that game and the movie the godfather. Inside the New York area there was five different families competing.
During the 1920's, there was a prohibition on Alcohol because of the 18th amendment. That didn't stop the mob from brewing and selling illegal alcohol. Other than the other businesses that they did, alcohol made the mob a fortune.
Today, the american Mafia is a still standing operation mostly in big cities, mostly in New York, Chicago, and Detroit.
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