The Mafia In The 1920's

Al Capone Mobsters was a term that describes a group of gangsters in the 1920’s. Gambling, Prostitution, and Murder went hand in hand with the term of mobster. Every mafia group has a leader. Al Capone was a dangerous mobster who was a Mafia crime lord and had took part in illegal alcohol, illegal drugs, prostitution, and illegal gambling during the 1920s (History).

Capone was in a gang in Chicago and worked for his uncle Jim Colosimo who was a major crime boss at the time (Lieurance 73). Colosimo was very cruel and ensured that everyone knew not to mess around with him, and in Chicago alone, almost 800 gangsters died (Lieurance

Al capone is one of the most notorious gangsters in the country in the 1920’s. As the prohibition of alcohol was going on he sought to gain a great deal of money by selling alcohol. From 1925 to 1930 Al Capone controlled Speakeasies, bookie joints, gambling houses, brothels, horse and race tracks, nightclubs, distilleries and breweries. He made approximately 100,000,000 a year from this. Although he was famous for his killings and crime he did many things for the poor.

With this job he began receiving large amounts of cash for his “illegal services” from corporations. With that money, he bought lots of Manhattan real estate. It was known that at his peak, Tweed was the 3rd largest landowner in Manhattan. In 1851, Tweed was elected as alderman on his second try.

John Gotti has been targeted for assassination due to internal family strife and unhappiness over his rule and personal demeanor. “One thing mob bosses don’t like is scrutiny and notoriety” (Mustain 45). “In 1966 one could find Gotti hijacking trucks at the JFK airport for the Gambino family” (Earnest 1). John Gotti is known for all of the racketeering, hijacking, and killing that he committed . Gotti was so well known that when his son went to see him and talk to him, two FBI agents literally said they were not gonna leave the room.

Prohibition and Immigration conflicts in the 1920’s were linked. The Italian mafia was under attack and a lot of its members fled to the U.S.. They organized the crime in the U.S. and created the mob. The mob made most of it 's money off of running speakeasies and bootlegging liquor. This was easy money since everyone was ignoring prohibition and wanted

Another reason that they were robber barons was they took down smaller companies so that they could have all of the money in the industry. Rockefeller also manipulated the country's financial system so that he could make more money. Carnegie was also ruthless to his workers. His employees were broke in freezing temperatures and had no food

They get into these pointless fights and hurt others in the battle. They would go after family members in that gangs and would even kill each other for these fights, no wonder the FBI is involved. Fifty-seven percent of gangs are drug gangs. They create drugs, transport them, and sell them to others. Sometimes they would even cross country borders just to get the drugs inside.

However, this attachment was caused due to Luis believing that Carlos was his only support system, so Luis knew he had no one else to depend on even though he had his aunt. Last but not least, the second external factor that affected the Galindos was the effects of poverty. " Many of the poor, and in particular the poor found within racial minorities, who must confront issues of both racism and poverty, feel trapped, disempowered, and increasingly full of rage."

The Slave Trade was a very brutal thing. Slaves were treated worse than most animals, and had no rights at all. They were shipped off in exchange for raw materials that usually had very little value at all. These human beings were sometimes stolen by their neighbours, or even their family members to be sold. Their way of life was absolutely terrible.

Criminals would earn lots of money for illegally selling this to the consumers. (Document A) Criminals would be the only people having a good time during the Great Depression. In Prohibition the murder rates sky rocketed

While in "Gilded Age", all levels of government had corruption, graft public money for their own. One of the most notorious New York City Boss Tweed William M. Tweed, his wealth has more than $25 million in 1871, all was dirty money. During the period he served as mayor of New York, the city requires all public officials to report false, false ratio as high as 85%. He presided over the construction of the New York county government office buildings, 40 chairs and 3 tables then discount about $179000, but a thermometer was quoted $7500. According to statistics, in 1860 ~ 1900, American municipal debt by $200 million soared to $1.4 billion, most of them are the City boss and partisans pocketed.

While people lived in complete fear. Super- gangsters ruled everything, so someone thought it was time to change all that. All this caused the creation

These laws, however, were infringed upon often by smugglers and those who were alike. The smugglers would creep their boozes overseas (and some from Canada), take it from the government storehouse, and then make their own. Numerous amounts of people stored their liquor in secret compartments such as empty canes, false books, and whatever else they could create (Al Capone). Illegal liquor stores, or speakeasies, substituted saloons after the beginning of prohibition. The number of speakeasies, just in New York City, toppled over one-hundred thousand by nineteen-twenty five (Al Capone).

most of the cops of this time would turn a blind eye and easily take payoffs because their other option was to be killed by the gangsters. The police were just down right scared of them because of this and they knew they were outgunned and had no chance. (FBI) But many of the systems we have developed and still use today were thought of at this time. Our system of fingerprinting is probably the best example but at this time it was still sadly in its infancy and didn 't have all of society in the system.