Mardi Gras season: two weeks of parades, street parties and masked balls ... It also attracts a variety of scams. Scam City: New Orleans, National Geographic 2014
Could the razzle-dazzle be more than a board game? ibid.
While the cops clear up the mess, the party just carries on. ibid.
Hurricane Katrina: ‘Where are the witnesses?’ Gangsters s2e13: America’s Most Evil: The Cutt Boyz, Reelz 2013
Washington had become a crack addict; he became a heroin kingpin. ibid.
The Cutt Boyz sold heroin in an age of crack. ibid.
‘New Orleans was the first American city that the Sicilian mafia began to inahbit.’ Lords of the Mafia V: New Orleans, comment
Within the American mafia families the individual with the most power, influence and wealth is known as The Boss. ibid.
The longtime supreme ruler of the Mafia of New Orleans, Carlos Marcello. ibid.
For years he and his mafia family seemed to be able to operate with virtual impunity. ibid.
‘He ran a vast conglomerate, maybe of 50 businesses under his umbrella.’
Hoover had long maintained that the Mafia was a myth. In 1957, however, 60 Mafia leaders were rounded up at a house in upstate, New York. ibid.
The legality of the deportation has always been in question. ibid.
His fury towards Kennedy reportedly became an obsession. ibid.