Polish-American organized crime has existed in the United States throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Although not as well known as Cosa Nostra or...
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Jewish-American organized crime initially emerged within the American Jewish community during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In media and popular...
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The Informer (2019 film) (category Films about Polish-American organized crime)
way into a Polish crime organization, he is about to provide his handler, Special Agent Wilcox, with substantial evidence to indict crime boss Ryszard...
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Russian mafia (redirect from Russian-American organized crime)
various organized crime related elements originating in the former Soviet Union (FSU). Any of the mafia's groups may be referred to as an "Organized Criminal...
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Hymie Weiss (category Polish-American organized crime)
Henryk Wojciechowski; January 25, 1898 – October 11, 1926), was a Polish-American mob boss who became a leader of the Prohibition-era North Side Gang...
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Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local group of centralized enterprises run to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for...
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Jake Guzik (category Polish-American organized crime)
Howard was dramatized in an episode. Kelly, Robert J. Encyclopedia of Organized Crime in the United States. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000...
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Polish American Football League Polish Australians Polish Brazilians Polish British Polish Canadians Polish Cathedral style Polish-American organized...
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Frank Sobotka (category Polish-American organized crime)
drama The Wire, played by the actor Chris Bauer. Frank is a respected Polish-American treasurer for the International Brotherhood of Stevedores at the Baltimore...
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North Side Gang (category Polish-American organized crime)
the South Side Gang, also known as the Chicago Outfit, the crime syndicate of Italian-Americans Johnny Torrio and Al Capone. Like many other Chicago-based...
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Nick Sobotka (category Polish-American organized crime)
decaying shipping shoreline, symbolizing the death of blue-collar work in American industry. Nick makes a brief appearance in season five, heckling Mayor...
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Joseph Filkowski (category Polish-American organized crime)
Filkowski was a Polish-American gangster active in Cleveland, Ohio, US. A longtime figure in Cleveland's underworld, Joseph Filkowski led the Polish bootlegging...
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Ziggy Sobotka (category Polish-American organized crime)
gained him little respect among other members of the union and The Greek's crime organization. Ziggy is Frank Sobotka's son and Nick's cousin. He is a Baltimore...
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Mickey Duffy (category Polish-American organized crime)
Penitentiary, Philadelphia. Upon his release, Prohibition was law and organized crime syndicates began smuggling, making and selling illegal alcohol. He...
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enterprises, gangs, mafias, and criminal syndicates that are involved in organized crime. Tongs and outlaw motorcycle gangs, as well as terrorist, militant...
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You Kill Me (category Films about Polish-American organized crime)
You Kill Me is 2007 crime comedy film directed by John Dahl, and starring Ben Kingsley, Téa Leoni, Luke Wilson and Dennis Farina. Frank Falenczyk is a...
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operate as affiliates of Italian groups. American Mafia The Commission (American Mafia) Jewish-American organized crime Nash, Jay Robert (1992). Nash, Jay Robert...
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Paul Jaworski (category Polish-American organized crime)
Paul Jaworski (born Paul Poluszynski; 1900 – January 21, 1929) was a Polish-American gangster born in Poland. He immigrated to the United States in 1905...
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The Wire (category Works about Polish-American organized crime)
The Wire is an American crime drama television series created and primarily written by American author and former police reporter David Simon for the cable...
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Drug cartel (redirect from Cartel (organized crime))
Crips or Locs Bloods or B Dogs Dixie Mafia Cornbread Mafia Greek-American organized crime Philadelphia Greek Mob Velentzas Family Assyrian/Chaldean mafia...
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Frank McErlane (category American gangsters of Irish descent)
was a Prohibition-era Irish-American organized crime figure. He led the Saltis-McErlane Gang, allied with Rusyn American gangster Joseph Saltis and the...
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Albanian mafia (redirect from Albanian Organized Crime)
or composed of ethnic Albanians. Albanian organized crime is active in Europe, North America, South America, and various other parts of the world including...
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This is a list of notable Polish Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained citizenship and their American descendants. Norman Finkelstein...
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14K (triad) (category Organized crime groups in Canada)
transnational organized crime and its impact on the United States: Developing a transnational crime research agenda". Trends in Organized Crime. 10 (2): 18–107...
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Crimes against the Polish nation committed by Nazi Germany and Axis collaborationist forces during the invasion of Poland, along with auxiliary battalions...
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Jewish, Finnish, Polish, West Indian and Chinese immigrants that was painted in lurid terms by the newspapers as a center of organized crime add depravity...
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History of Poles in the United States (redirect from Polish American history)
numbers and scope, Poles joined organized crime and mafia-related distribution networks of alcohol in the U.S. Polish Americans were active in strikes and...
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an aging population, and the decline of lead poisoning in children. Organized crime has long been associated with New York City, beginning with the Forty...
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Chicago Outfit (redirect from Chicago crime family)
the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or the Organization) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Chicago, Illinois...
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List of gangs in the United States (redirect from List of African-American gangs in the United States)
mafia Brothers' Circle Greek mafia Philadelphia Greek Mob Velentzas crime family Polish mob Romanian mafia Russian mafia Solntsevskaya Bratva Serbian mafia...
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