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mob, the: a single organized crime family; or all organized crime families together. mobbed up: connected to the mob. mobster: one who is in the mob. oath: becoming inducted as a made man. Omertà: to take a vow of silence in the Mafia, punishable by death if not upheld. one-way ride or taking someone for a ride: underworld for an execution method
In the late 1830s and early 1840s, the agricultural communities of west Wales were in dire poverty. [3] In 1837 and 1838 the whole country suffered from poor harvests, worse in the south west, where atrocious seasons of rain forced farmers to buy corn at famine prices to feed themselves, their animals and their families, which further eroded what little capital they had. [3]
The three men imposed a tax on all goods sold in the city's Italian community. In 1924, Vito Giannola became the most powerful Mafia boss in St. Louis forcing Dominick Giambrone to flee the city. [3] Giannola attempted to take control of the bootlegging rackets in the area and fought with members of the Egan's Rats gang and Cuckoos Gang. [3]
Fleeing to the bush, Kelly vowed to avenge his mother, who was imprisoned for her role in the incident. After he, his brother Dan, and associates Joe Byrne and Steve Hart shot dead three policemen, the government of Victoria proclaimed them outlaws. Kelly and his gang, with the help of a network of sympathisers, evaded the police for two years.
In his 1991 book Hoffa, Arthur A. Sloane said that the most common theory of FBI investigators was that Russell Bufalino was the mob boss who ordered the murder, and Salvatore "Sally Bugs" Briguglio, his brother Gabriel Briguglio, Thomas Andretta and Charles "Chuckie" O'Brien were the men who lured Hoffa away from the restaurant. The theory is ...
He unsuccessfully sued The Sydney Morning Herald [citation needed] but was successful in later suits against the authors, publishers and distributors of Tough: 101 Australian Gangsters [14] and the publishers of The Gold Coast Bulletin, which contained a defamatory crossword clue, viz. "Sydney underworld figure, nicknamed Mr Sin (3,7)."
The Memphis Mafia was the nickname given by the media to a group of Elvis Presley's friends, associates, employees and cousins whose main functions were to accompany, protect, and serve Presley from the beginning of his career in 1954 until his death in 1977.
The Porteous Mob, painted in 1855 by James Drummond The Porteous Riot by James Skene, 1818. The Porteous Riots surrounded the activities of Captain John Porteous (c. 1695–1736), Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh, Scotland, who was lynched by a mob for his part in the killing of innocent civilians while ordering the men under his command to quell a disturbance during a public hanging in ...