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#UKRpol #WarInUkraine #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#Extortion

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...after Prohibition.

#Mobsters such as #AlCapone and New York’s Five Families expanded their underworld empires by 👉infiltrating organized labor.👈 Through intimidation and corruption, the mob used the labor unions for everything from 👉extortion, bribery and embezzlement to price-fixing and #kickbacks3)."👈

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history.com/news/how-mafia-inf

3)Since this week also called #GoldCards
nbcnewyork.com/news/national-i

HISTORY · How the Mafia Infiltrated American Labor Unions By Christopher Klein

"The Night Chicago Died" is a song by the #British group #PaperLace, written by #PeterCallander and #MitchMurray. The song reached number one on the #BillboardHot100 chart for one week in 1974, reached number 3 in the UK charts, and number 2 in Canada. It is about a fictional shoot-out between the #ChicagoPolice and members of the #AlCapone #Syndicate. The narrator retells his mother's anguish while awaiting news of the fate of her husband, a Chicago policeman.
youtube.com/watch?v=GOXUT5Y9aA

"The Night Chicago Died" is a song by the #British group #PaperLace, written by #PeterCallander and #MitchMurray. The song reached number one on the #BillboardHot100 chart for one week in 1974, reached number 3 in the UK charts, and number 2 in Canada. It is about a fictional shoot-out between the #ChicagoPolice and members of the #AlCapone #Syndicate. The narrator retells his mother's anguish while awaiting news of the fate of her husband, a Chicago policeman.
youtube.com/watch?v=tR0gjl66PV

"The Night Chicago Died" is a song by the #British group #PaperLace, written by #PeterCallander and #MitchMurray. The song reached number one on the #BillboardHot100 chart for one week in 1974, reached number 3 in the #UK charts, and number 2 in Canada. It is about a fictional shoot-out between the #ChicagoPolice and members of the #AlCapone #Syndicate. The narrator retells his mother's anguish while awaiting news of the fate of her husband, a Chicago policeman.
youtube.com/watch?v=w2OFubG0dP

Via #TheBulwark

#AlekseiNavalny & #YevgenyPrigozhin had little in common. Except 4 the fact they both got whacked on orders of the same crime boss.

The extrajudicial execution of #Navalny in Arctic prison colony on Feb 16 had all hallmarks of mob hit carried out 2 send message. An anti-corruption crusader whose groundbreaking work helped expose kleptocratic nature of #Putin’s #Kremlin regime was eliminated—it’s as if #AlCapone had somehow managed 2 knock off #EliotNess

plus.thebulwark.com/p/in-russi

The Bulwark · In Russia, Mafiaism Is the New CommunismBy Brian Whitmore