Eighteenth Street is considered the largest gang in California, and a strong Latino criminal armed gang. It is estimated that there are thousands of members in Los Angeles alone. Its criminal activities and elevated status has even caught the attention of the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has recently started large scale attacks against known and suspected gang members that has garnered hundreds of arrests across the country.
Al Capone is America's best known gangster and the single greatest symbol of the collapse of law and order in the United States during the 1920s Prohibition era. Capone had a leading role in the illegal activities that lent Chicago its reputation as a lawless city.
Richard Kuklinski is a professional contract murderer. Kuklinski admits to killing more than a hundred people. Most people believe that Richard is named the Iceman because he is a cold blooded murderer. But the real reason he is called the Iceman, is after a killing, he would freeze the victims body in an industrial freezer and then dump the body a few years later.
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The Genovese crime family is one of the "Five Families" that controls organized crime activities in New York City, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). The Genovese crime family has been nicknamed the "Ivy League" and "Rolls Royce" of organized crime.
Set on the inner-city streets of Oakland, California, cocaine dealer Charles Cosby has his life changed forever when he writes a fan letter to the “Cocaine Godmother” Griselda Blanco, who is serving time at a nearby federal prison. Six months later, Cosby is a multi-millionaire, Blanco’s lover, and the head of her $40 million a year cocaine business.
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