mafia

The region that is the cradle of the Italian Mafia is the south of Italy - Sicily, Naples, Calabria and Apulia. Due to the presence of a non-mafiotized North and to some extent - the center of Italy and therefore - the presence of an economic and political elite competing with the mafia, the...

This is new TL by me It's the history of tiny nation who was overlook by the Great Powers and manage to surivive Two World Wars and the cold war every Friday comes new post

IOTL Fascist Italy took steps to suppress the Sicilian Mafia. Mussolini ordered a man named Cesare Mori to eradicate La Cosa Nostra by any means necessary and gave him his full support. This worked relatively well, with Mori detaining lots of these mafiosi, but it would not be that easy. He...

All right, this is a quite strange history, but I was searching about a certain suit and heard that the mafiosi Bugsy Siegel used that suit, this one Thus I read his wikipedia page and found, well, this "Siegel also met Nazi leaders Hermann Göring and Joseph Goebbels, to whom he took an...

Your challenge is relatively self-explanatory: have there be a large-scale conflict between the American Mafia and the Ku Klux Klan.

Without the stimulus of Prohibition, would organized crime have reached its OTL heights of influence in the 1920s and beyond? Would the Mafia ever become as renowned as in OTL?

On October 15, 1976, Carlo Gambino, died of a heart attack. At first glance, he may have seemed like a charming old Italian immigrant. And he was. But he was also the cunning and ruthless boss of the Gambino crime family, which had become perhaps the most powerful organized crime group in...

While "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II" are commonly cited as two of the greatest movies ever made, "The Godfather Part III" is often looked upon as a flawed and disappointing sequel. After putting himself heavily in debt following a series of box office disasters, director Francis...

This timeline reimagines the 1980s, transforming it from the remembered halcyon days to a far more unstable decade. The point of divergence comes in the 1970s, and quickly snowballs into a dramatically altered universe in the next decade. Familiar characters have different roles, unfamiliar...

Sometime in the 1970s, Carlo Gambino had to make a decision about who would succeed him as head of the Gambino crime family. The obvious choice seemed to be his underboss, Neil Dellacroce. Instead, he chose his cousin, Paul Castellano. This proved to be a mistake. Castellano was shrewd and a...

According to Wikipedia, So with this pretty simple definition in mind, your challenge is to turn the United States into such a polity up to the present day with a POD/PODs anytime after 1900. It's not necessary for it to be just one organized criminal outfit controlling the country, in fact...

I have read extensively about organized crime, and I think we all can agree on the fact that prohibition helped the various organizations greatly, now I want to ask u, how would crime develop in the us without prohibition? Would the situation be much better than in OTL?

Historically, the American mafia wielded significant power and influence since at least Prohibition, up to the late 1970s, after Nixon signed the RICO Act. However, a series of (seemingly avoidable) blunders caused the mob to be plainly exposed to the American public, which prompted a previously...

For a story i'm currently writing, President Jimmy Carter is assassinated in a false flag terrorist attack orchestrated by the mob in order to put alternate-Vice President, James R. Hoffa, in the White House. So your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with the specifics for...