organized crime

I recently made a thread about Italian organized crime (Mafia et al.) being fully destroyed by Mussolini and the fascists. The basic ideas I took away from the discussion there were: A) Crime will always exist; B) Destroying only one group will lead to another stepping in to fill the vacuum...

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...

Your challenge is to have there be a "German Mob" in America on par with the Italian, Irish, Polish, et cetera organized crime groups.

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...

Your challenge is to have there be large-scale German-American criminal organizations at some point in American history.

I know there were many "ethnic" organized crime groups in American history, especially those associated with "immigrant" demographics (which has, unfortunately, been both a consequence of and a rationale for discrimination against said demographics). Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, and...

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...