Exam 3: The American Mafia

he Outfit's political base in the First Ward has been destroyed.

he Capone Organization can best be described not as a hierarchy directed by Al Capone but rather as a senior partnership involving four men, who in turn entered into a variety of partnerships to run specific enterprises.

n 1931, Capone was found guilty of income-tax evasion.

hich of the following demonstrate their value to the Family with financial success?

n New York, an organized crime group is referred to as ___________.

ntil Mike McDonald, gambling had been rather unorganized in Chicago and so were politics.

hich of the following was a struggle for domination in New York?

ugs Moran was not in the warehouse at the time, even though the "St. alentine's Day Massacre" had been arranged in his honor.

Members and associates are organized into ___________, semi-independent units nominally headed by a caporegime, a capodecina, a street boss, or even a soldier.

ho was supposed to be the victim of the St. alentine's Day massacre?

ccording to the text, New York OC bosses are linked in a rather informal arrangement known as:

y 2004, the heads of all five Families were incarcerated.

_________ began his political career as a rubber in the exclusive Palmer Baths.

hat was Johnny Torrio's and Al Capone's importance in the development of organized crime in Chicago?

hen reformer William Dever was elected mayor of Chicago in 1923, the system of political/police protection broke down. Describe what happened then.

he struggle for domination of Italian-American OC in New York became known as the Castellammarese War because Maranzano and many of his supporters came from the small Sicilian coastal town of Castellammare del Golfo.

n the New York model of the American Mafia, each of the bosses is entirely disconnected from every other.

ventually, Capone moved his headquarters from Chicago to _________, where he took over the Hawthorne Inn.

ow does an individual become a member of a Mafia Family? Describe the process, from recruitment to initiation.

he conflict that arose in 1930 between the two major Mafia factions in New York is known as ____________.