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Green Collar Jobs: Environmental Careers for the 21st Century

Business & Money

Deitche, Scott M.

Job Hunting & Careers

Praeger

Marked Card is a term used by law enforcement to flag a mobster as a possible covert operative for the federal government. Made guy, double agent, and mystery man, Mark Silverman takes the phrase 'To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy' to a whole new level in Marked Card: Power Play in the Boston Mafia. In the course of the late 80's and into the 90's the Boston Mafia was in the midst of a full blown war for supremacy of the New England underworld. The government was synchronously engaged in their own silent war; playing one agency against the other while leaking information to their informants. Silverman spares no details describing how he rose through the ranks of the Irish Winter Hill gang while working for both warring factions of the Italian Mafia concealing his identity. Silverman explains how the Whitey Bulger scandal led to an absolute power play, both on the streets and inside law enforcement circles.

Marked Card: Power Play in the New England Mafia

Biographies & Memoirs

Silverman, Mark

Historical

Quillslammer Pubns

Garden State Gangland: The Rise of the Mob in New Jersey

The Mafia in the United States might be a shadow of its former self, but in the New York/New Jersey metro area, there are still wiseguys and wannabes working scams, extorting businesses, running gambling, selling drugs, and branching out into white collar crimes. And they are continuing a tradition that’s over 100 years old. Some of the most powerful mobsters on a national level were from New Jersey, and they spread their tentacles down to Florida, across the Atlantic, and out to California. And many of the stories have never been told. Deitche weaves his narrative through significant, as well as some lesser-known, mob figures who were vital components in the underworld machine. New Jersey’s organized crime history has been one of the most colorful in the country, serving as the home of some of the most powerful, as well as below-the-radar, mobsters in the Country. And though overshadowed by the emphasis on New York City, the mob and New Jersey have, over the years, become synonymous, in both pop culture and in law enforcement. But for all the press that has been dedicated to the mob and New Jersey, for all the law enforcement activity against the mob, and for all the pop culture references, there has never truly been an examination of the rise of the mob in New Jersey from a historical perspective. Until now. In Garden State Gangland, Scott M. Deitche sets the historical record straight by providing the first overall history of the mob in New Jersey, from the early turn of the century Black Hand gangs to the present, and looks at how influential they were was, not only to goings-on the Garden State but across the New York metro region and the country as a whole.

History

Americas

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Review\nIn this latest scorching true-crime thriller from Deitche, the author's writing is as entertaining as his real-life characters are ruthless. 
― Booklist\nIt’s always been a wonder that the names Michael Meldish and Angelo Prisco haven’t achieved the notoriety they deserve among fans of true crime stories. Finally, thanks to the terrific writing and deep research of Scott Deitche, these leaders of the violent 1970s-80s East Harlem Purple Gang get their due in The Hitmen. I’ve been waiting for someone to tackle this story for a long time, and Scott’s book made it worth the wait. It must be a part of any true crime library. -- Gus Russo, author of Supermob and The Outfit\nThis is a fascinating secret history of a mafia legend called the Purple Gang. Scott Deitche's Hitman informs and entertains, replete with dramatic narratives and colorful, larger-than-life figures. The balanced analysis of evidence is further strengthened by ample original reporting and Deitche's sharp prose. 
-- Matthew Pearl, author of The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America\nFrom arson to homicide and from collections to narcotics trafficking, when it came time to outsource muscle in Los Angeles during the 1940s and 50s, the mafia and syndicate turned to the infamous Sica brothers for talent. As if a conduit or a rung in gangster vetting, sometimes these hardcase associates that strolled through their doors were made into the local mafia. And, as Scott Deitche’s newest offering has so rightly illustrated, matters weren’t all that different out in East Harlem a couple of decades later, when the East Coast mob began enlisting the Busch League brute of a batch of local upstarts steeped in the drug trade. Members of the press and law enforcement had a name for this emerging faction of violent knockaround guys feared throughout New York and New Jersey. They called them the new Purple Gang. And eventually these hungry thugs thickened the ranks of the Genovese, Lucchese, and Bonanno families. -- J. Michael Niotta, early L.A. crime historian and author of Los Angeles Underworld\nFrom the author of the star reviewed Garden State Gangland comes an in-depth exposé on East Harlem's notorious Purple Gang whose murderous exploits became a media obsession and Mafia lynchpin. 
In the late 1970s, a string of seemingly unconnected murders had Harlem police and federal authorities at their wits’ end until they realized several commonalities. The victims were all either Mafia members or potential witnesses of Mafia activity and they’d all been shot from .22 pistols traced back to a single private sale in Florida. From these details, the FBI and police were able to build a profile of a rogue sect of Mafia hitmen known as the East Harlem Purple Gang. 
Starting on the fringes of Mafia families, the Purple Gang members became indispensable and installed members in the highest ranks of the Genovese, Bonanno, and Lucchese families. Often serving as freelance hitmen, kidnappers, and drug traffickers, the Purple Gang’s exploits quickly crossed into mythology as media outlets scrambled to keep up with new murders and the law’s crusade to bring the gang members to justice. Sifting through the mystery and mythos, author Scott M. Deitche brings readers into Harlem’s gritty streets to experience the Purple Gang’s reign of terror, the investigators who tried to bring them down, and the gang members who either suffered violent ends or are still at large today.\nBook Description\nThe Hitmen uncovers a dark and twisted history of the East Harlem Purple Gang in the gritty New York City organized crime scene of the late 70s and early 80s.

Hitmen: The Mafia, Drugs, and the East Harlem Purple Gang

Hitmen

The Mafia in the United States might be a shadow of its former self, but in the New York/New Jersey metro area, there are still wiseguys and wannabes working scams, extorting businesses, running gambling, selling drugs, and branching out into white collar crimes. And they are continuing a tradition that's over 100 years old. Some of the most powerful mobsters on a national level were from New Jersey, and they spread their tentacles down to Florida, across the Atlantic, and out to California. And many of the stories have never been told. Deitche weaves his narrative through significant, as well as some lesser-known, mob figures who were vital components in the underworld machine.New Jersey's organized crime history has been one of the most colorful in the country, serving as the home of some of the most powerful, as well as below-the-radar, mobsters in the Country. And though overshadowed by the emphasis on New York City, the mob and New Jersey have, over the years, become synonymous, in both pop culture and in law enforcement.

Tantor Audio

The Mafia in the United States might be a shadow of its former self, but in the New York/New Jersey metro area, there are still wiseguys and wannabes working scams, extorting businesses, running gambling, selling drugs, and branching out into white collar crimes. And they are continuing a tradition that's over 100 years old. Some of the most powerful mobsters on a national level were from New Jersey, and they spread their tentacles down to Florida, across the Atlantic, and out to California. And many of the stories have never been told. Deitche weaves his narrative through significant, as well as some lesser-known, mob figures who were vital components in the underworld machine. New Jersey's organized crime history has been one of the most colorful in the country, serving as the home of some of the most powerful, as well as below-the-radar, mobsters in the Country. And though overshadowed by the emphasis on New York City, the mob and New Jersey have, over the years, become synonymous, in both pop culture and in law enforcement.

Bootleggers, gambling, ringleaders, arsonist, narcotics dealers and gang murders —a variety of characters flourished in the era known as Prohibition, and Tampa, Florida was where thye battled for supremacy of criminal underworld.

Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld

Barricade Books

Bootleggers, gambling, ringleaders, arsonists, narcotics dealers and gang murders―a variety of characters flourished in the era known as Prohibition, and Tampa, Florida was where they battled for supremacy of the criminal underworld.

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Green Collar Jobs: Environmental Careers for the 21st Century

Marked Card: Power Play in the New England Mafia

Garden State Gangland: The Rise of the Mob in New Jersey

Garden State Gangland: The Rise of the Mob in New Jersey

Hitmen: The Mafia, Drugs, and the East Harlem Purple Gang

Hitmen

Garden State Gangland: The Rise of the Mob in New Jersey

Garden State Gangland: The Rise of the Mob in New Jersey

Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld

Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld