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CJ 350 Organized Crime

Professor Brown

Course Intro

• Seminar Housekeeping• Discussions• Seminars/Alternate Assignment• Unit 3 Project• Unit 5 Mid Term Essay• Unit 8 Project• Unit 9 Final Project• Unit 6 Seminar

Unit 1: Organized Crime: Attributes and Structure

• Unit Overview - This unit examines the definition of organized crime, its organizational structures, and how they are similar to legitimate business. It also acquaints you with the history and structure of the American Mafia.

What should you learn in this unit?

• The various definitions of the term organized crime

• The attributes identified by law enforcement agencies and researchers as indicative of organized crime

• The differences between terrorism and organized crime

• The bureaucratic/corporate structural model of organized crime

• The patrimonial/patron-client network structural model of organized crime

Key Terminology

• What is a “made guy”?

Made Guy• “Official Member of the American Mafia, which of

course does not exist except in movies.”

• http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=made+guy

Chapter 1: The Definition and Structure of Organized Crime

• The criminality of persons in Organized Crime differs from that of conventional criminals because the OC organization allows them to commit crimes of a different variety and on a larger scale than their less organized colleagues can. Organizational affiliation provides a form of credentialing and networking that facilitates cooperation between criminals that would not otherwise occur.

Chapter 1: The Definition and Structure of Organized Crime

• Contemporary OC can manifest two contrasting organizational models, the bureaucratic/ corporate model and the patrimonial/patron-client network. These models represent two ends of a continuum; criminal groups, if they are to be defined as organized, can be located somewhere along this continuum. The military represents the quintessential bureaucratic organization, whereas American Mafia groups fall into the patron-client network model.

Attributes of Organized Crime

• Has no political goals• Is hierarchical• Has a limited or exclusive membership• Constitutes a unique subculture• Perpetuates itself• Exhibits a willingness to use illegal violence• Is monopolistic (similar, but slightly different)• Is governed by explicit rules and regulations

History of the Mafia

• 1282• "Sicilian Vespers" revolution against the

occupying Angevins is traditionally viewed as the birth of the Sicilian Mafia. There are no contemporary mentions of the name "Mafia," a term which comes into being hundreds of years later, but the underground movement against Anjou may be seen as the ancestor of a later Mafia.”

• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr1.html

1800 - 1900

• Movement from Sicily to US/murders/gang activity, structure of buildings to house future gang tenants.

• 1899/Birth of Alphonse Capone/AKA Scarface/Brooklyn

• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr1.html

1900’s

• 1902: Ignzaio Lupo/ • “Lupo is regarded as the leader of Manhattan

Mafiosi. He is actually an enforcer for Giuseppe Morello, Black Hand extortionist and owner of a cafe at 220 Elizabeth Street. Morello's half-brothers Ciro, Vincenzo and Nicholas Terranova, are considered top lieutenants.”

• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr2.html

1900’s• 1910: Ignazio Lupo, Giuseppe Morello, Giuseppe

Calicchio, Giuseppe Palermo, Nicola Sylvestro, Antonio Cecala, Vincenzo Giglio, Salvatore Cina

• “Judge Ray announces the counterfeiting sentences: Lupo, 30 years, $1,000 fine; Morello, 25 years, $1,000; Calicchio, 17 years, $600; Palermo, 18 years, $1,000; Sylvestro, Cecala, Giglio and Cina, 15 years, $1,000. Lupo and Morello begin sentences of hard labor at Atlanta Federal Prison.”

• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr2.html

1900’s

• 1913: Vito Genovese

• “Arrived in New York at the age of 16.”

• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr2.html

1900’s

• 1920: New York• “The bootleggers' curbside Liquor Exchange is

established along Kenmare, Broome, Grand and Elizabeth Streets, a short distance from police headquarters. Tommy Pennochio, an ally of Joe Masseria, supervises the exchange. Bootleggers can swap or sell their surpluses out in the open. One of the first significant inter-gang cooperative ventures of the Prohibition Era.”

• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr3.html

1900’s

• 1923: Al Capone/Chicago• “Capone sets up headquarters at Hawthorne

Inn, 4833 22nd Street in Cicero.”

• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr3.html

1900’s

• 1939/Al Capone/Chicago• “Capone is released from Alcatraz, but he is

mentally incompetent, the result of a lost battle with syphilis.”

• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr4.html

1900’s

• 1944: Joe Adonis/New Jersey• “Longtime Brooklyn Mafia power Adonis

leaves his Brooklyn empire and moves to Palisade, NJ.”

• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr4.html

1900’s

• 1950: Estes Kefauver/DC• “Kefauver Committee (U.S. Senate committee)

hearings into organized crime's influence on interstate commerce begin. Committee will hear 600 witnesses during its first year. Kefauver will take the show on the road, conducting hearings in 14 cities.”

• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr5.html

1900’s

• 1966• “Absent for years, Bonanno suddenly resurfaces

and announces he is once again in command of his New York crime Family. Gaspar DiGregorio, who at the urging of Bonanno enemies on the Commission has been fighting the leadership of Bonanno's son, loses support of the Commission and the rebellious Bonanno men.”

• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr5.html

1900’s• 1975• “Hoping to mend fences with his former underworld

associates on his return to the Teamster union presidency, Hoffa schedules a meeting at the Machus Red Fox restaurant outside of Detroit. It is generally believed that Hoffa was to meet "Tony Pro" Provenzano and Detroit mobster Anthony Giacalone. But some say Russell Bufalino was invited instead. Hoffa calls his wife at 2:15 to say he has been stood up. He is never seen or heard from again. Investigators focus their attention on Provenzano and Giacalone. Each has alibis for the date.”

• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr5.html#1960

1900’s

• 1985• “The Federal Bureau of Investigation brings

charges against the alleged heads of the five Mafia families in New York City.”

• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr5.html#1960

1900’s

• 1985• “Gotti is believed to have masterminded the

assassination of "Big Paul" Castellano and his driver/bodyguard Thomas Bilotti outside of Sparks Steakhouse in Manhattan. Gotti allegedly siezes leadership of the Gambino crime family.”

• http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr5.html#1960

Current Headlines

• “A New Jersey case against 34 reputed underworld figures is based on hundreds of wiretapped conversations, some of which illustrate an alliance between the Lucchese Crime Family and the Nine Trey Gangster set of the Bloods street gang.”

• http://mob-news.blogspot.com/

Current Headlines

• “Brian R. Cohen, 61, of Buffalo NY, was charged May 27 with money laundering and gambling promotion in connection with a New Jersey-based Lucchese Crime Family online gaming racket.”

• http://mob-news.blogspot.com/

Current Headlines

• “Three Masullo brothers of Brooklyn were sentenced May 25 to prison terms for criminal conduct related to the Genovese Crime Family”

• http://mob-news.blogspot.com/

Current Headlines• “Paolo Renda, 70, brother-in-law of imprisoned

Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto and reputed consigliere of the underworld organization, disappeared on May 20, according to stories by Paul Cherry of the Montreal Gazette and Adrian Humphries of the National Post. Renda was last seen at 3:15 p.m. His wife Maria reported him missing at 6 p.m. Authorities suspect he has been abducted and fear he may have been killed.”

• http://mob-news.blogspot.com/

Question:

• How has organized crime adapted to technology within their crime schemes?