Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Organized crime
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Waterfront Corruption
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Organized crime
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Organized crime
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Dark Harbor
Author: Nathan Ward
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429933402
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
What if the world of the old New York waterfront was as violent and mob-controlled as it appears in Hollywood movies? Well, it really was, and the story of its downfall, told here in high style by Nathan Ward, is the original New York mob story. New York Sun reporter Malcolm "Mike" Johnson was sent to cover the murder of a West Side boss stevedore and discovered a "waterfront jungle, set against a background of New York's magnificent skyscrapers" and providing "rich pickings for criminal gangs." Racketeers ran their territories while doubling as union officers, from the West Side's "Cockeye" Dunn, who'd kill for any amount of dock space, to Jersey City's Charlie Yanowsky, who controlled rackets and hiring until he was ice-picked to death. Johnson's hard-hitting investigative series won a Pulitzer Prize, inspired a screenplay by Arthur Miller, and prompted Elia Kazan's Oscar-winning film On the Waterfront. And yet J. Edgar Hoover denied the existence of organized crime - even as the government's dramatic hearings into waterfront misdeeds became must-see television. In Dark Harbor, Nathan Ward tells this archetypal crime story as if for the first time, taking the reader back to a city, and an era, at once more corrupt and more innocent than our own.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429933402
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
What if the world of the old New York waterfront was as violent and mob-controlled as it appears in Hollywood movies? Well, it really was, and the story of its downfall, told here in high style by Nathan Ward, is the original New York mob story. New York Sun reporter Malcolm "Mike" Johnson was sent to cover the murder of a West Side boss stevedore and discovered a "waterfront jungle, set against a background of New York's magnificent skyscrapers" and providing "rich pickings for criminal gangs." Racketeers ran their territories while doubling as union officers, from the West Side's "Cockeye" Dunn, who'd kill for any amount of dock space, to Jersey City's Charlie Yanowsky, who controlled rackets and hiring until he was ice-picked to death. Johnson's hard-hitting investigative series won a Pulitzer Prize, inspired a screenplay by Arthur Miller, and prompted Elia Kazan's Oscar-winning film On the Waterfront. And yet J. Edgar Hoover denied the existence of organized crime - even as the government's dramatic hearings into waterfront misdeeds became must-see television. In Dark Harbor, Nathan Ward tells this archetypal crime story as if for the first time, taking the reader back to a city, and an era, at once more corrupt and more innocent than our own.
The Last Longshoreman
Author: Marc Zappulla
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781535367530
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Anthony "Tony" Costa grew up admiring his Uncle Dom-a made member of the New England mafia- so when Dom asks him to collect gambling debts from around the neighborhood, Tony is happy to help. Even after his uncle gets thrown in jail, he does his nephew a good turn from behind bars, getting him a job as a longshoreman on the Boston waterfront. The year is 1958, and Tony is only eighteen. His new job quickly teaches him what it will take to survive on the docks. Tony and his violent new friend Butchie Shea soon carve out a life for themselves on the pier. But when Butchie convinces him to take desperate, brutal action against an adversary, Tony realizes just how badly his criminal lifestyle has tainted him. He vows to go straight and focus on his wife and family-but old habits die hard, and the opportunity of a lifetime yanks Tony back in. The job could lead to big rewards, but Tony might not see just how risky it is until it's too late.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781535367530
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Anthony "Tony" Costa grew up admiring his Uncle Dom-a made member of the New England mafia- so when Dom asks him to collect gambling debts from around the neighborhood, Tony is happy to help. Even after his uncle gets thrown in jail, he does his nephew a good turn from behind bars, getting him a job as a longshoreman on the Boston waterfront. The year is 1958, and Tony is only eighteen. His new job quickly teaches him what it will take to survive on the docks. Tony and his violent new friend Butchie Shea soon carve out a life for themselves on the pier. But when Butchie convinces him to take desperate, brutal action against an adversary, Tony realizes just how badly his criminal lifestyle has tainted him. He vows to go straight and focus on his wife and family-but old habits die hard, and the opportunity of a lifetime yanks Tony back in. The job could lead to big rewards, but Tony might not see just how risky it is until it's too late.
Government's Ability to Combat Labor Management Racketeering
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Materials Relating to Wiretap Disclosure
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials (Impeachment)
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials (Impeachment)
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
Labor Management Racketeering Act of 1981
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Labor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Report of the Senate Impeachment Trial Committee on the Articles Against Judge Alcee L. Hastings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Impeachment Trial Committee on the Articles against Judge Alcee L. Hastings
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 1714
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 1714
Book Description
Report of the Senate Impeachment Trial Committee on the Articles Against Judge Alcee L. Hastings: March 17, 1989, organizational meeting ... pretrial examinations of June 15, 1989
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Impeachment Trial Committee on the Articles against Judge Alcee L. Hastings
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 1710
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 1710
Book Description
The Edge
Author: United States. President's Commission on Organized Crime
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Business Of Crime
Author: Alan A Block
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000315045
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Members of organized crime syndicates have gained control of key businesses and trade unions through their strategic positions as arbiters of labor-management conflicts and as dispensers of illegal credit. They are managing important sectors of the contemporary marketplace, engaging in activities far more significant than the vice enterprises usually associated with criminal activity. Difficult to access for scholarly study, organized crime is best documented in judicial findings and in legislative reports from criminal investigations and public hearings. In this book, Alan Block has assembled a rich cross section of these reports. Taken together, they illustrate how organized crime has infiltrated important industries and taken control of union pension and welfare funds. Designed for students of criminology, sociology, and deviance, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the business of crime in America today.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000315045
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Members of organized crime syndicates have gained control of key businesses and trade unions through their strategic positions as arbiters of labor-management conflicts and as dispensers of illegal credit. They are managing important sectors of the contemporary marketplace, engaging in activities far more significant than the vice enterprises usually associated with criminal activity. Difficult to access for scholarly study, organized crime is best documented in judicial findings and in legislative reports from criminal investigations and public hearings. In this book, Alan Block has assembled a rich cross section of these reports. Taken together, they illustrate how organized crime has infiltrated important industries and taken control of union pension and welfare funds. Designed for students of criminology, sociology, and deviance, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the business of crime in America today.