The origination of the ITALIAN MAFIA took place in Sicily in the year 1865 AD, as a result of involvement of some powerful Sicilians or Sicilian families in violent and criminal activity. In the second half of the nineteenth century the island of Sicily, with a tradition of resistance to outside domination saw the rise [...]
In 1890s the first major Mafia incident occurred in New Orleans. The local chief of the police pressured the Sicilian crime family, who was then murdered. When the mobsters were tried, they bribed and acquitted witnesses. As a result, Anti-Italian fervor erupted, and a lynch mob went to the jailhouse. The mob not only shot [...]
1930 Mafia The American Mafia in the 1930s was in great difficulty. It was a time when Federal and state investigators launched a major crackdown on organized crime that resulted in one spectacular narcotics conviction. Thomas Dewey’s in the year 1936 organized crime investigators indicted Luciano himself on sixty-two counts of forced prostitution. The Federal [...]