What were the Mafia political scams in the United States?
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It was rumored that the Mob got JFK voted into office.  It was really strange at the time because he was young and a Roman Catholic.
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Americans' sense of civic virtue was shocked by the scandals associated with the Reconstruction era, including corrupt state governments, massive fraud in cities controlled by machines, political payoffs to secure government contracts (especially the Crédit Mobilier of America scandal regarding the financing of the transcontinental railroad), and widespread evidence of government corruption during the Ulysses S. Grant administration (see Whiskey Ring). Led by the Bourbon Democrats, especially Samuel J. Tilden and Grover Cleveland, there was a call for reform, such as Civil Service Reform. More generally there was a sense that government intervention in the economy resulted in favoritism, bribery, kickbacks, inefficiency, waste and corruption. The Bourbon Democrats led the call for a free market, low tariffs, low taxes, less spending and, in general, a Laissez-Faire (hands-off) government. They also denounced imperialism and overseas expansion. Many business and professional people supported this approach, although most Republicans continued to argue for a high protective tariff to encourage rapid growth of industry and protect America's high wages against the low wage system in Europe. Labor activists and agrarians expressed the same spirit but focused their attacks on monopolies and railroads as unfair to the little man.\n\nIn politics the two parties engaged in very elaborate get-out-the vote campaigns that succeeded in pushing turnout to 80%, 90% and even higher. It was financed by the "spoils system" whereby the winning party distributed most local, state and national government jobs, and many government contracts, to its loyal supporters. Large cities were dominated by political machines, in which constituents supported a candidate in exchange for anticipated patronage—favors back from the government, once that candidate was elected—and candidates were selected based on their willingness to play along. Presidential elections between the two major parties (the Republicans and Democrats), were closely contested, and Congress was marked by political stalemate. Mudslinging became an increasingly popular way of gaining advantage at the polls, and Republicans employed an election tactic known as "waving the bloody shirt". Candidates, especially when combating corruption charges, would remind voters that the Republican Party had saved the nation in the Civil War. During the 1870s voters were repeatedly reminded that the Democrats had been responsible for the bloody upheaval, an appeal that attracted many Union veterans to the Republican camp. The Republicans consistently carried the North in presidential elections. The South, on the other hand, became the Solid South, nearly always voting Democratic. The political humiliations of Reconstruction were still fresh in many minds. Conversely, the Democrats invoked images of the "lost cause" and the glorious "stars and bars" in much the same way Republicans "waved the bloody shirt". Overall, Republican and Democratic political platforms remained remarkably constant during the years before 1900. The negativity and ambiguity of politics began a shift in the press to yellow journalism, in which sensationalism and sentimental stories took as prominent a role as factual news.\n\nGreat question.  Thanks...I learned something too.
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Yeah, when we were kids in catholic school, we used to have those wars, but basically just for fun.  But the Italian mafia think think that the guys in the Irish mafia get too drunk to have an efficient organization.
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<\nMafia groups in the United States first became influential in the New York area, gradually progressing from small neighborhood operations to citywide and eventually international organizations. The Mafia had eventually expanded to twenty-six crime families nationwide in the major cities of the United States, with the epicenter of organized crime based in New York. After many turf wars, five families ended up dominating New York, named after prominent early members: the Bonanno family, the Colombo family, the Gambino family, the Genovese family, and the Lucchese family.
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Look up the Tom Capano case in Delaware!\n\nhttp://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/capano/trial/
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Isnt that illegal?  What are you, some wannabe mafia guy?  You got that stupid hat on.
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Greed and corruption.
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A mafia is a very organized crime assosiation.Mostly concentrating in trading illiagal goods.A mob is a lot of people that just go charging on something...sort of like a strike go wild.
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Ive heard of christians that convert people at gunpoint. in my opinion thats a true christian (TM)  they have done that since Roman times and they will never stop being that way. the Mafia came from Rome and so did christianity. i dont think thats a coincidence.
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you are going to have a very hard time finding a legitimate source of any FBI hit list. \nyour best bet is to research newspaper accounts of run-ins they had with the police, what tools they used to stop rallies, etc.\nalso, if you're willing to, you can check with local nursing homes to find some old activists and interview them.\nif you ask me, I think your topic is too broad; narrow it to a certain agency.
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only if your in the mafia~
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Lots of money a half ass alibi and a helluva lot of political power. \nAll for the one time price of selling ones soul
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Yes most of them are scams.  They're usually women who use "love" to get a free green card.
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No they are a organized mafia who always try to involve NAIVE persons, my neighbor try to be an smart pants he traveled to Africa with the supposed invest and when he arrived he got in problems there wasn't any rich guy and almost  the liars caught him and robbed him,so he when to ask for help to the American embassy and he came back  and lucky with his money but almost lose the 2000 dollars that the fake millionaire ask him to borrow. such a fool idiot so don't believe in those morons.\n I always send them to the .............. because I really can't understand why people always rely on those bunch of charlatans.\n IF you want to make money just work and be wise in the way of how you spend you money
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Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act \n\nThese are laws designed to erradicate organized crime
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Actually it was '94 and it was a Colombia mafioso that had him killed because he lost millions in gambling because as a result Columbia lost to the US.\n\nNot fair, but it wasn't the Colombian government.
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OK lets start by saying there is no tradition of godfathers & mafia in Lebanon, you must be confusing that with Italy, where there have been recent (and precedented) mafia killings.\n\nLebanon used to be a part of Syria and its a country which is not politically and racially unified. There are many ethnicities and religions that exist in Lebanon. Next to this, they have the biggest curse of being located in a region torn by wars and ethnic&religious tension. When these all blend with poverty and foreign influences, wars become inevitable.