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Anderson provides six reasons for organized criminal involvement in legitimate business. List and discuss those reasons. ​

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Annelise Anderson (1979: 77)points out t...

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Which union is the most important union to come under the domination of organized crime, since virtually every consumer product needs to be transported throughout the country?


A) LIUNA
B) HEREIU
C) ILA
D) IBT

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In addition to their illegal business activities, persons involved in organized crime often own or invest in legitimate enterprises. ​

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Ralph Scopo, who was at the center of a "contractors club" that received payments for allocating bids on construction jobs, was a member of which crime family?


A) the Gambino Family
B) the Lucchese Family
C) the Patriarca Family
D) the Colombo Family

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How does money laundering serve the interests of organized crime?

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Illegal gains-especially cash-are proble...

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In Chicago, the Laborers' Union has always had close ties to: ​


A) the Outfit.
B) the Mafia.
C) the Neighborhood Watch.
D) the Mayors Association.

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The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union was established in which city in 1891? ​


A) New York
B) Chicago
C) Houston
D) Las Vegas

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Once in control of the International Longshoremen's Association, organized crime found that the shipping industry was not an industry that could be dominated by racketeering. ​

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According to Goldstock, labor rackets assume three basic forms: sweetheart deal, siphoning of union funds, and: ​


A) bargaining.
B) walkout.
C) strike insurance.
D) competition.

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What is the infiltration, domination, and use of a union for personal benefit by illegal, violent, and fraudulent means? ​


A) labor racketeering
B) money laundering
C) restraint of trade
D) private banking

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In some schemes, what are persons used by money launderers to convert cash into money orders and cashier's checks known as? ​


A) mules
B) smurfs
C) ringers
D) flips

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The _____________ is the largest labor union in the United States. ​

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Internatio...

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Who, in an effort to eliminate all possible witnesses against him, ordered a murder rampage that backfired when his loyal men became informers seeking police protection, resulting in his prosecution in 1941 and electrocution in 1944? ​


A) Benjamin "Dopey" Fein
B) Louis "Lepke" Buchalter
C) Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro
D) John L. Lewis

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What are Ronald Goldstock's three basic forms of labor racketeering? Briefly describe each. ​

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Goldstock's three basic forms of labor r...

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Bid rigging and customer allocation are what type of violations of the Sherman Act? ​


A) money laundering
B) restraint of trade
C) excessive greed
D) political corruption

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