was mechine gun kelly a real mob boss?
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He was the bee's knees!\n\nGeorge R. Kelly aka George "Machine Gun" Kelly Barnes (July 18, 1895 - July 18, 1954) was a notorious American gangster during the prohibition era. His crimes included bootlegging, armed robbery and kidnapping.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Gun_Kelly
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yeah they are there. but i dont think are very organized ones. They are involved in these activities just like any other underground mafia
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Okay...JFK was murdered by a combination of CIA, Mossad, French Intelligence and the Mafia on behalf of the military industrial complex. In a nutshell: JFK was a bit too reactionary for the m/i c; he wanted to make too many reforms. In his own words, he wanted to "smash the CIA into a thousand pieces" over their Cuban faux pas. He sacked the Director of CIA, Allen Dulles, shortly before he was assassinated. Allen Dulles, funnily enough, ended up being one of the members of the -you guessed it- Warren Commission! \nNow, it is no big secret that JFK's dad used his influence with the mafia -particularly a mobster named Sam Giancana- to get Jack elected. Which is all very well and good, even though the Kennedy's had every intention of double crossing the mob, especially when Bobby, as Attourney General, went after them. But JFK's biggest mob related mistake was screwing around with Giancana's mistress. That was the last straw. \nSo Kennedy had to go. It was at the hands of the military industrial complex, BUT they needed some help with the operation. This is where Mossad and French intelligence come in. \nAs for Lee Harvey Oswald...he really was a patsy. I think he constitutes the mafia connection. But no way was he the "lone gunman". Let's consider some of the forensic evidence, shall we?\nJFK was hit three times. The first was to the throat. This bullet came from the front, as even the Zapruder film shows. The second bullet came from behind, and was most likely the one fired by LHO. This is the supposed "magic bullet" that went through Kennedy and into Gov. Connally. The third fatal head shot also came from the front. Eyewitness reports from Dealey Plaza (which were, of course supressed by the media) claim that two or three men with guns were seen hanging around the...Grassy Knoll! Most people considered them to be Secret Service Agents. Oh, yes...Bernard Barker, a CIA agent who would gain infamy nine years later as one of the Watergate burglars, was also on the scene. Possibly overseeing the op. Guess who else happened to be in Dallas on Novemeber 22nd? Richard Nixon! Could be a coincidence...\nSo, long story short, JFK was killed because he was stepping on waaaaay too many toes. And when you do that, you're gone. Some people say it was a failed coup. Not quite. The JFK assassination was more or less personal, not business, as Michael Corleone ("The Godfather") would put it...\nCheck out the following books:
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He was VERY real and as much of a nightmare, if not worse, that the media made him out to be!  He was violent, killing government officials in Columbia at a whim.  He was on of the, if not the, first major drug king pins in the world.
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I'm not sure that it was ever really found out who officially killed him, but I think it is widely considered it was Biggie Smalls and/or his "crew".
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I don't think it was Mussolini, but then again because of him, so many Italian mafiosi fled to America. I would have to say Mario Puzo, and the reason for that is his book and movie "The Godfather." They were kind of like a guide to being a mobster. Its kind of funny because even though what happened in the book and movie would never happen in real life, mobsters would try to copy the images in "The Godfather", which in turn made Hollywood copy from the mobsters.
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Godfather w/o a doubt
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He was a bushranger so technically a criminal but was touted as a "folk Hero" to the people....see wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly
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The 'mob' is generally used in relation to the Mafia, however it could be more accurately called 'organized crime.'  Hoffa had used the influence of organizaed crime during his tenure as the union president, and was threatening to run for the union presidency again. Organized crime had already taken control of the new union leader, and didn't need Hoffa anymore.
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Was it fake? No... It was scripted and the winner and moves were decided before the match (as happens in most wrestling matches), but it was for real, the blades, barbwired, the fire - it was all real, and both were hurt during the fight.\n\nAre they friends?\nYes they are, most wrestlers do get along with each other in real life, when are out of character. It's their character which are enemies. \nYou won't believe how many wrestlers which are arch enemies on screen are actually best friends in reality.\nMick Foley and Adam Copeland (Edge) are friends in real life, and Mick even wrote the intoduction to Adam's book.
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The old man, Joe Kennedy, enlisted the aid of the mafia and organized labor to get his son as Pres.  After coming to office, instead of assisting the mob ties, Jack appointed his brother as attorney general and went after organized crime.  J Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, would not only not cooperate in this effort, which should have been the function of his organization, but hindered efforts, so the Kennedy bros were after his hide, too.  THis leads me to suspect that elements of the FBI as well as the mob were into the assassination and the coverup.  Wasn't it Dorothy Killgallin or Arlene Francis who had the only interview with one of the assassins and called a friend that night to say she would spill the beans and she died that night?  THen Marilyn Monroe had an affair with both Kennedys and had a diary and called a friend to say she was coming out with some secrets the next day and she died that night and the diary was nowhere to be found and her house was bugged, but nobody knew who bugged it.  THere are some very evil people in the US government who are guilty of many of the things that we have always accused the old SOviets of.
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check out DAVID HOROWITZ book, the title escapes me at the moment.\nMr. Horowitz was a big leafiest in the late 60's and has keen and personal insights into this group of thugs.  they are responsible for murders that have still not been punished because they are a 'civil rights organization'.  In your hat! Like I am a astronaut who will be singing opera at Carnegie hall tonight standing on one hand.
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I don't know any organized crime lords, but my understanding is that they have a reputation for defending their own turf and the people who live under them.  By way of comparison, all of the corporate leaders I've seen care absolutely nothing about their people.
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I think you mean that crook who went prison for having his business partner killed.\nNicholas van Hoogstraten.\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3301361.stm
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The Kennedy family has been "in business" with the mafia since the prohibition times.  They were some of the biggest bootleggers in the 20's and 30's.
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Henry Hill\nbirth place: New York, USA\n\nHenry Hill was born in 1941 and grew up in the Brooklyn area dominated by Lucchese Crime Family capo, Paul Vario. Henry was fascinated by the gangsters and mafiosi and, from the moment he saw them, wanted to become like them.\n\nBut Henry couldn't become a full fledged Mafia member, because he was only half Italian. However, he became a close associate and friend of Paul Vario and his associates. In his teenage years Henry would run errands, and eventually moved into more serious crime like truck hijacking.\n\nHenry married a girl named Karen, and they had two children. However, Henry lived up to his gangster image having a number of affairs, drinking and playing cards.\n\nAfter beating up a non paying gambler who's sister worked for the FBI, Henry was sentenced to jail for ten years. Prison guards were paid off in order to make the time a little easier for the Mafiosi and associates, and Henry also made useful contacts in the narcotics trade.\n\nAfter his release, Henry began shifting large amounts of cocaine from Brooklyn to Pittsburgh, even though Paul Vario vehemently forbid any of his crew from dealing in the junk trade. But Henry began to use his own product and became sloppy. He was busted and the whole chain, including his contacts in Pittsburgh, were raided at the same time.\n\nHenry would have been killed if he had turned to Vario, and life on the run with children would have been impossible, so Henry Hill became a government witness. He turned Paul Vario in, and his testimony was highly valued by the FBI.\n\nMost of Henry's old associates are dead or in prison, but he has written an autobiography, and tells his story on talk shows.\n\nI hope this helps.
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OMG the funny memory this question dragged up!\nThere was this obnoxious guy that kept groping at my ex-bosses grand-daughter in the bar.  He could not take a hint.  Anyways, we were out with some friends of ours, one of whom was an off duty cop.  We escorted the pig and his friend out of the bar and I must have been feeling invincible with my cop friend and swung at the guy hitting him square in the face.  I dont know who was more shocked, me, him or our friends.  Anyways, his friend was dragging him away as my friends were holding me back.  I can't imagine what on earth possessed me to hit the guy (rum maybe???) but I am glad everyone else had enough sense to let it stop there.