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Black Brothers, Inc

Author : Sean Patrick Griffin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Brothers, Inc written by Sean Patrick Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 2005, a prominent and politically influential Muslim cleric, Imam Shamsud-din Ali, became the latest person convicted in a massive federal corruption probe in Philadelphia. As the revelations emanating from the probe continue, a critically acclaimed author and leading authority on organized crime exposes for the very first time the disturbing contemporary and historical ties between Ali, the city's notorious Black Mafia, and the sweeping federal probe. The Black Mafia was one of the bloodiest crime syndicates in modern US history. From its roots in Philadelphia's ghettos in the 1960's, it grew from a rabble of street toughs to a disciplined, ruthless organization based on fear and intimidation with links across the Eastern Seaboard. Known in its "legitimate" guise as Black Brothers, Inc., it held regular meetings, appointed investigators, treasurers and enforcers, and controlled drug dealing, loan-sharking, numbers rackets, armed robbery and extortion. Its ferocious crews of gunmen grew around burly founder Sam Christian, the most feared man on Philly's streets. They developed close ties with the influential Nation of Islam and soon were executing rivals, extorting bookies connected to the city's powerful Cosa Nostra crew, and cowing local gangs. The Black Mafia was responsible for over forty killings, the most chilling being the 1973 massacre of two adults and five children in Washington, D.C. Despite the arrests that followed, they continued their rampage, exploiting their ties to prominent lawyers and civil rights leaders. A heavy round of convictions and sentences in the 1980's shattered their strength â" only for the crack-dealing Junior Black Mafia to emerge in their wake. Researched with scores of interviews and unique access to informant logs, witness statements, wiretaps and secret FBI files, Black Brothers, Inc. is the most detailed account ever of an African-American organized crime mob, and a landmark investigation into the modern urban underworld. "Griffin did extensive research and backs up his claims carefully...If you're a crime buff, a history lover, or if you just want something fascinating to read, it's a book you can't refuse."---Terri Schlichenmeyer, syndicated reviewer and host of "The BookWormSez" "A gripping story...Griffin richly documents the Black Mafia's organization, outreach and over-the-top badness." --Joseph N. DiStefano, Philadelphia Inquirer

Mafia Prince

Author : Phil Leonetti
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 0762456000
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Mafia Prince written by Phil Leonetti and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MONEY, MURDER, AND MACHIAVELLIAN MAYHEM . . . CONTAINS A NEW EPILOGUE Mafia Prince is the first person account of one of the most brutal eras in Mafia history -- "Little Nicky" Scarfo's reign as boss of the Philadelphia family in the 1980s -- written by Scarfo's underboss and nephew, "Crazy Phil" Leonetti. The youngest-ever underboss at the age of 33, Leonetti was at the crux of the violent breakup of the traditional American Mafia in the 1980s when he infiltrated Atlantic City after gambling was legalized, and later turned state's evidence against his own. His testimony led directly to the convictions of dozens of high-ranking men including John Gotti, Vincent Gigante, and the downfall of his own uncle, Nick Scarfo -- sparking the beginning of the end of La Cosa Nostra (the insiders' term for the Mafia, translated as "This Thing of Ours").

True Crime Philadelphia

Author : Kathryn Canavan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493036165
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book True Crime Philadelphia written by Kathryn Canavan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serial killer H.H. Holmes built his murder castle in Chicago, but he met the hangman in Philadelphia. Al Capone served his first prison sentence here. The real-life killers who inspired HBO’s Boardwalk Empire lived and died here. America’s first bank robbery was pulled off here in 1798. The country’s first kidnapping for ransom came off without a hitch in 1874. A South Philadelphia man hatched the largest mass murder plot in U.S. history in the 1930s. His partners in crime were unhappy housewives. Catholics and Protestants aimed cannon at each other in city streets in 1844. Civil rights hero Octavius V. Catto was gunned down on South Street in 1871. Take a walk with us through city history. Would you pass Eastern State Penitentiary on April 3, 1945, just as famed bank robber Willie Sutton popped out of an escape tunnel in broad daylight? Or you might have been one of the invited guests at H.H. Holmes’ hanging at Moyamensing Prison on a gray morning in May 1896. It still ranks as one of the most bizarre executions in city history. Or, if you walked down Washington Lane on July 1, 1874, would you have been alert enough to stop the two men who lured little blond Charley Ross away with candy? You might have stopped America’s first kidnapping for ransom, the one that gave rise to the admonition, “Never take candy from a stranger.” The case inspired the Leopold and Loeb kidnapping. Then there was the bank robber whose funeral drew thousands of spectators and the burglary defendant so alluring that conversation would stop whenever she entered the courtroom. Mix in murderous maids, bumbling burglars, and unflinching local heroes and you have True Crime Philadelphia.

Last Don Standing

Author : Larry McShane
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250095883
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Last Don Standing written by Larry McShane and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the last Don of the Philadelphia mob, Ralph Natale, the first-ever mob boss to turn state’s evidence, provides an insider’s perspective on the mafia. Natale’s reign atop the Philadelphia and New Jersey underworlds brought the region’s mafia back to prominence in the 1990s. Smart, savvy, and articulate, Natale came up in the mob and saw first-hand as it hatched its plan to control Atlantic City’s casino unions. Later on, after spending 16 years in prison, he reclaimed the family as his own after a bloody mob war that left bodies scattered across South Philly. He forged connections around the country, invigorated the family with more allies than it had in two decades, and achieved a status within the mob never seen before or since until he was betrayed by his men and decided to testify against them in a stunning turn of events. Using dozens of hours of interviews with Natale along with research and interviews with FBI agents, this book delivers revelatory insights into seminal events in American mob history, including: - The truth about Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance - The murder of Jewish mob icon Bugsy Siegel - The identity of the man who created modern-day Las Vegas With the full cooperation of Natale, New York Daily News reporter Larry McShane and producer Dan Pearson uncover the deadly reign of the last great mob boss of Philadelphia, a tale that covers a half-century of mob lore—and gore.

Black Mafia

Author : Mikell Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781880240007
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Black Mafia written by Mikell Davis and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Superbad

Author : Sean Patrick Griffin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903854426
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book Superbad written by Sean Patrick Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Mafia is one of the bloodiest, and least known, crime gangs in US history. It was responsible for more than 40 killings, the most chilling being the massacre of two adults and five children in Washington in 1973 in a feud between rival Muslim factions. A heavy round of convictions and jail sentences in the mid- 1980s shattered the Black Mafia's strength - only for their |youth| branch to re-emerge as the Junior Black Mafia. Researched with scores of interviews and unique access to informal logs, witness statements, wiretaps and secret FBI files.

Black Mafia II - The Brotherhood: A Prequel to Black Mafia - The Secret Society

Author : Mikell Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781880240038
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Black Mafia II - The Brotherhood: A Prequel to Black Mafia - The Secret Society written by Mikell Davis and published by . This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Michael Donaldson the head of The Brotherhood the most powerful African American crime family decides to retire and turn his number running gambling empire over to his underlings it triggers a series of events pitting the most powerful members of the Organization against each other. Frank Montague runs heroin and controls New york. Lloyed Miller is his underboss, James Sales is his counselor and William Johnson his strongest lieutenant in Philadelphia. All of these men are loyal to Mr. Donaldson but none of them trust each other.

Philadelphia Organized Crime in the 1920s and 1930s

Author : Anne Margaret Anderson with John J. Binder
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467121177
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Philadelphia Organized Crime in the 1920s and 1930s written by Anne Margaret Anderson with John J. Binder and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia Organized Crime in the 1920s and 1930s explores a little-known but spirited chapter of the Quaker City's history. The hoodlums, hucksters, and racketeers of Prohibition-era Philadelphia sold bootleg booze, peddled illicit drugs, ran numbers, and operated prostitution and insurance rings. Among the fascinating personalities that created and contributed to the Philadelphia crime scene of the 1920s and 1930s were empire builders like Mickey Duffy, known as "Prohibition's Mr. Big," and Max "Boo Boo" Hoff, dubbed the "King of the Bootleggers"; the violent Lanzetti brothers, who ran their own illegal enterprise; mobster Harry "Nig Rosen" Stromberg, a New York transplant; and the arsenic widows poison ring, which specialized in fraud and murder. Bringing to light rare photographs and forgotten characters, the authors chronicle the underworld of Philadelphia in the interwar era. The upheaval caused by the gangs and groups herein mirrors the frenzied cultural and political shifts of the Roaring Twenties and the austere 1930s.

The Breeding of Contempt

Author : John King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781401079031
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Breeding of Contempt written by John King and published by . This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Breeding Of Contempt, details two horrific events in the Nation's history. The 1973 mass murder of seven people in Washington, D.C., and the 1977 siege on Washington that left a reporter dead, and nearly took the life of a popular city councilman. The book also introduces readers to a literary first, a Black family hiding in the Federal Witness Protection Program. The Breeding of Contempt reintroduces the reading public to some of the Black leaders of the 1960's and 1970's, and also introduces others who would become powerful a decade later. Finally, the book gives its readers a glimpse into a virtually unknown group, the Black mafia, who operated in Philadelphia in the 1970's, terrorizing the citizenry of Philadelphia.

Gaming the Game

Author : Sean Patrick Griffin
Publisher : Barricade Books
ISBN 13 : 9781569804759
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Gaming the Game written by Sean Patrick Griffin and published by Barricade Books. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, Gaming the Game delves inside the FBI investigation of illegal gambling involving former basketball NBA referee, Tim Donaghy. The story examines Donaghy's relationships with professional gambler Jimmy Battista and Tommy Martino (the intermediary between Donaghy and Battista), the involvement of Italian-American crime families in the scheme, and the FBI's failed efforts to "flip" Battista into a cooperating witness.

Philadelphia's Black Mafia

Author : S.P. Griffin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306481324
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Philadelphia's Black Mafia written by S.P. Griffin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia's 'Black Mafia' could be used as primary reading in deviance and organized crime courses. Academicians in the fields of criminology, sociology, history, political science and African-American Studies will find the book compelling and important. This book provides the first sociological analysis to date of Philadelphia's infamous "Black Mafia" which has organized crime (with varying degrees of success) in predominantly African-American sections of the city dating back to the late 1960's. Philadelphia's 'Black Mafia': -is a first step in developing both data and sophisticated theoretical propositions germane to the ongoing study of organized crime; -uses primary source documents, including confidential law enforcement files, court transcripts and interviews; -explores the group's activities in detail, depicting some of the most notorious crimes in Philadelphia's history; -thoroughly examines the organization of the Black Mafia and the group's alliances, conspiracies and conflicts; -challenges many of the current historical and theoretical assumptions regarding organized crime.

Mobfiles

Author : George Anastasia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobfiles written by George Anastasia and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of some of Philadelphia Inquirer reporter George Anastasia's best work, told from street level and often based on insights provided by investigators, prosecutors, and the mobsters themselves.

How to Hustle and Win

Author : Supreme Understanding
Publisher : Supreme Design Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Hustle and Win written by Supreme Understanding and published by Supreme Design Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Likened to a 48 Laws of Power for young Black men, this book presents Black biographies, history, and current events in a language that the Hip-Hop generation will understand and relate to. Each story or essay is framed within the context of a life lesson, each one being of vital importance to the survival, redemption, and ultimate success of our dying Black generation. Both the positive and negative sides of the Black experience are explored in detail, from the lives of infamous drug dealers and pimps to the exploits of Black revolutionaries and activists. In addition, several How To sections outline simple strategies for self-development. Packed with useful information, from the best way to handle confrontations with police, to the continuing relevance of the 1919 race riots, this book has been compared to an urban Encyclopedia Africana. Others have called it a Blueprint for Black Power for a generation struggling with materialism and short attention spans. This book is guaranteed to change the world by changing the way millions of people think and live. In How to Hustle and Win, author Supreme Understanding tells, in often graphic detail, stories like that of the infamous Philadelphia Black Mafia, Harlem's heroin kingpin Frank Lucas, and former gang leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams. In between and throughout these tales, he weaves life lessons and guidance, turning sordid stories of crime and urban despair into an educational experience. Whereas Robert Greene's bestselling 48 Laws of Power used iconic figures from classical history to illustrate the guidelines for personal success, How to Hustle and Win is filled with the exploits of rappers, gangsters, radicals, and revolutionaries. This is a new kind of Black history book, and its intent is the motivation and achievement of a new kind of reader. Although today's literary market has seen an influx of self-help books attending to a variety of issues, few books have attempted to address the concerns of young Black men, struggling to find direction. It is this group that author Supreme Understanding names as one of most troubled demographics in American society today. On the book's website, the author comments: "Unfortunately, few authors actively target this audience, and those who do are either not speaking their language, or not interested in pushing for change. This is why How to Hustle and Win was written. This book will change the minds of millions of young men of color, and by doing this, it will ultimately change the world." Revolutionary aspirations aside, How to Hustle and Win's groundbreaking concept results in a truly appealing work. Its essays are delivered in short bursts, none of them over four pages long, making it ideal for struggling readers and those with shorter attention spans. At the same time, the book is filled with a wealth of information that would enlighten educated readers equally. In fact, the author juxtaposes his own personal tales of early delinquency and misdirection with his later years of professional success, including obtaining a doctorate in education at the age of 26.

Gorilla Convict

Author : Seth Ferranti
Publisher : Strategic Media Books
ISBN 13 : 9781467526678
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Gorilla Convict written by Seth Ferranti and published by Strategic Media Books. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gorilla Convict" is a selected compilation of Seth's work that has appeared on his long running blog at gorillaconvict.com. Online since 2005, the blog gives the scoop on street legends, the mafia, prison gangs, hip-hop and hustling and life in the belly of the beast. What makes this collection so unique is that Seth writes his blog and stories from his cell block in the Federal Bureau of Prisons where he has spent nearly two decades in prison. He founded the Gorilla Convict website from prison, and his intriguing and amazing stories have created a large and dedicated audience from prison. The book gives the reader real, raw and in your face stories that have not been written from the mainstream news media point of view. They are written by a man who understand the criminal and convict codes and who lives and resides with the men he writes about in the belly of the beast. This collection of crime, prison and street lore is as inside as you can get.

Acres of Skin

Author : Allen M. Hornblum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134001649
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Acres of Skin written by Allen M. Hornblum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time of increased interest and renewed shock over the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, Acres of Skin sheds light on yet another dark episode of American medical history. In this disturbing expose, Allen M. Hornblum tells the story of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison.

With Eyes from Both Sides

Author : Thelma Wright
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781463542474
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book With Eyes from Both Sides written by Thelma Wright and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As told to and written by C. Alease

Confessions of a Second Story Man

Author : Allen M. Hornblum
Publisher : Barricade Books
ISBN 13 : 9781569804995
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Second Story Man written by Allen M. Hornblum and published by Barricade Books. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Allen Hornblum tells the strange but true story of Junior Kripplebauer and his Philadelphia-based crew known as the Kripplebauer Gang. Up and down the East Coast, they robbed wealthy suburban residences with assembly line skills of breaking, entering, and bagging the loot. Hornblum describes the transformation of the K&A Gang from a group of blue collar thieves to their work in conjunction with numerous organized crime families and their help to make Philadelphia the "meth" capital of the nation. It is a compelling read about a fascinating bunch of hoodlums.