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In addition to murdering on the unquestioned orders of superiors, murder was also used as a tool for taking over rival businesses, sometimes, by starting unfounded rumors that a competitor was cooperating with authorities, or even that he had insulted the honor of a boss behind his back. Once the boss sanctioned the "hit" whoever started the rumor had received a green light to eliminate his competition. According to the strict hierarchical rules, murdering another "made" member of the organization would likely result in an order to kill the offender, more to reinforce the expected chain of command than out of any sense of "justice" or anything else.
Montiglio, who served in Vietnam as a Green Beret, later worked for his uncle, "Nino" Gaggi, collecting proceeds from his gambling and loan sharking operations and filling the role of driver and bodyguard. He describes an environment where members of the organization, ("wiseguys"), preyed on anyone not in the organization, extorting "protection" fees from honest business owners and routinely using violence to collect ridiculous interest payments or "vig" from gambling debts. Loans were made with the specific intention of bleeding interest fees indefinitely, rather...
Montiglio describes the evolution of the so- called "Gemini Method" of dismembering bodies above DeMeo's Gemini Lounge in Brooklyn. After shooting them in the head, the preferred method started by wrapping a towel around the head to minimize the amount of blood to be cleaned.
Immediately thereafter, a knife would be plunged into the heart to stop it from pumping, after which the body would be hung upside down over a bathtub to drain the blood. The rest of the procedure involved dismembering, in a manner that DeMeao described as just like taking apart a deer after hunting.
Ultimately, Murder Machine is more about the strange code of underworld values and the evolution of the wiseguy lifestyle than it is about the gory details of the crimes themselves. The retrospective provided by Montiglio serves as more of a warning to any prospective organized crime hopefuls than a glorification of the strange and dangerous world that was once his life.
The Gambino crime family began to fall apart after the head of its founder died. It had split into two factions. This book centers on the more ruthless Brooklyn faction. Away from the scrutiny of the Manhattan police, for many years it could do what it wished. Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci spare no details in detailing the cruel jokes these men told to one another while they engaged
Missing Reel The Untold Story of the Lost Inventor of Moving Pictures by Christopher Rawlence History as a concept was created within the human mind thousands of years ago. It most likely arose from tales told around flickering campfires of great deeds performed by fathers and mothers, dangerous beasts which were conquered, nourishing plants and fruits which were discovered and distinguished from poisonous ones. Gradually, even before the invention of writing,
It was the straw that broke the camel's back, and it was the "open gang ware" on Chicago's streets. Bugs Moran was arrested and brought before the court on charges of vagrancy. The massacre had not elicited public outcry alone, but had brought the attention of the President of the United States to focus on Chicago; probably not what Al Capone had expected. The G-Men Al Capone was a centerpiece of focus
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The 1990s also saw innovative interpretation of law enforcement's role in the perpetuation of organized crime. One of the most notable examples is L.A. Confidential (1997), in which corruption has reached so deep into the Los Angeles police department that two seemingly unrelated criminal investigations both lead to the police chief. The genre also proved its adaptability and continued appeal with Heat (1995) and Carlito's Way (1993); both films starred
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