the take over

After reading about the mafia and how organized it was, one can say that it functioned more properly than the United Government its self; which is actually a very scary thought. In the 1920’s the mafia began to rise and new mobster families began to surface. At that point the mafia controlled almost all the illicit liquor trade, along with drug trafficking, illegal gambling, while it had power in the garment industry and construction. Towards the end of the 1920’s government passed anit-racketeering laws to convict high-racketeering mafia leaders; that is if they could find them. Seeing that the mafia began to grow and new mobster families began to surface Lucky Luciano a major mobster at the time decided to create something called the Commission. “Luciano then masterminded the formation of a central organization called the Commission to serve as a sort of national board of directors for the American Mafia, which by then consisted of at least 20 crime families across the country.” (1)  This “board of directors” controlled all mobster family activities and set policies that the mafia had to follow.

     Each mobster family was led by a boss who operated every “mission” and received or took a cut of any money making job. Like the army or the U.S. government there were people under the boss who organized different parts of “jobs”. During the 20^th century the mafia not only took over criminal activity above the covers but also under. They become leaders of all underground businesses like illegal gambling, loan-sharking and prostitution rings. They soon began to establish legitimate companies too like construction, garbage collection, trucking, restaurants and much more.

     The 1920’s was the era of the Mafia. It was the time of power for the criminals and the masterminds.  

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