Organized Crime in Our Times (Fifth Edition) by Jay S. Albanese

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Antonio believed Garcia was responsible for his arrest. An acquaintance of Antonio, named Eugenio, called a friend who had moved to Chicago. 357 magnum to kill Garcia. Cabello made three unsuccessful attempts to find Garcia’s house, and he returned to tell Eugenio. 2, continued Eugenio told Cabello he would call his brother-in-law, Hector, to find out where Garcia lived. Eugenio obtained the directions and gave them to Cabello. Cabello left to find Garcia, but still could not find the house. Eugenio called Hector again for more precise directions.

O’Brien and Andris Kurins, Boss of Bosses (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991) and Rosalie Profaci’s Marriage to Bill Bonanno, as portrayed by Rosalie Bonanno with Beverly Donofrio, Mafia Marriage: My Story (New York: Avon, 1991). 30 Teresa Carpenter, Mob Girl (New York: Zebra Books, 1993). , pp. 15-16. 32 Barbie Nadeau, “Ladies of the Mob,” Newsweek International, (June 17, 2002), p. 27. 33 Anne Campbell, The Girls in the Gang (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1984), p. 266. 34 Ibid. 23 24 ORGANIZED CRIME IN OUR TIMES 35 Edward R.

Crime in Canadian Society, Third Edition (Toronto: Butterworths, 1986); Robert J. Kelly, The Upperworld and the Underworld: Case Studies of Racketeering and Business Infiltrations in the United States (New York: Kluwer Academic, 1999). 14 National Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals. S. Government Printing Office, 1976), p. 213. 15 Henry N. Pontell and Kitty Calavita, “White-Collar Crime in the Savings and Loan Scandal,” The Annals, 525 (January, 1993), p. 39. CHAPTER 1 • WHAT IS ORGANIZED CRIME?

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