The New York State Liquor Authority refused to issue liquor licenses to many gay bars, and several popular establishments had ...

When thousands of Italian immigrants arrived in America in the early 1900s, they brought more than culture - they brought the foundations of a criminal empire. What began as secret societies from ...

Based in Italy and the U.S., the Mafia is a network of organized-crime groups active in a range of underworld ventures, from drug trafficking to murder. The Mafia evolved over centuries in Sicily, an ...

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In the early 1970s, a hidden empire of crime, violence and power ruled the streets of New York City. The five families of the American mafia ruled, and the family bosses were untouchable. No one ...

In June 1988, the Reagan administration launched the most important US labour case of the past half-century. The government alleged the Italian-American mafia – La Cosa Nostra – had effectively taken ...