Famous Faces
This gangster known as "Scarface", ran Chicago's underworld during prohibition.
Al Capone ruled this city during the 1920s.
What is Chicago?
Gangsters often used these violent incidents to eliminate rivals, like the one on Valentine’s Day 1929.
What are massacres?
This corrupt practice, often used by gangsters to influence police or politicians, involves offering money for favors.
What is bribery?
This bank robber was declared public enemy number 1 and after being gunned down by police.
Who is John Dillinger?
Known for Mafia activity, this East Coast city was home to the Five Families.
What is New York City?
During the Prohibition, gangsters made millions selling alcohol using what tactic?
What is Bootlegging?
These powerful urban networks of political influence were often infiltrated or controlled by organized crime.
What are political machines?
An Italian-American mobster who helped create the modern American Mafia, he was crucial in forming the Commission.
Who is Lucky Luciano?
This city’s Purple Gang controlled liquor smuggling from Canada.
What is Detroit?
This illegal system of protection rackets was common in 20th-century organized crime.
What is extortion?
Al Capone was famously brought down not for murder or bootlegging, but for this financial crime.
What is tax evasion?
He was often called “The Mob’s Accountant,” he was key in organizing crime finances and helped run Murder, Inc.
Who is Meyer Lansky?
Bugsy Siegel helped develop the mob’s gambling empire in this desert city.
What is Las Vegas?
This term describes criminal infiltration of legitimate businesses.
What is racketteering?
These early 1950s Senate hearings, named after a Tennessee senator, exposed organized crime’s national influence on national TV.
What are the Kefauver Hearings?
This violent criminal, real name Lester Gillis, was known for his short temper and bank heists with Dillinger.
Who is Baby Face Nelson?
This city was a meeting point for many mafia figures, political machines also provided much support for criminal organizations.
What is Kansas City?
Mafia members use this term to describe officially bringing someone into the organization.
What is being "made"?
Enacted in 1970, this federal law allows authorities to prosecute individuals involved in organized criminal enterprises.
What is the RICO Act?