Corleone Mafioso nabbed

[irishgrl]

I remember in the 70's my dad talked about the Mafia, he was a Union member and there were some ties with Unions in those days (who knows, maybe still!)
but it was all so hush hush, no one really believed it existed because it was such a shadowy thing this "thing of ours" ....I remember the Unions really got all up in arms because of the Teamster Boss who went missing--Jimmy Hoffa.

And I have the book about Joe Valachi, the man widely credited with exposing the Mafia. After him, the Mafia lost its cloak of secrecy. I have another book by the same author about Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, who was a wiseguy for one of the big name American Mafia families.

There is (or used to be) a "Jewish Mafia" of which Bugsy Malone was a big name (he was one of the few who went between different organizations...)
and you hear stories about a "Mexican Mafia" too.....

I also heard that the biker gangs such as the Hells Angels etc eventually took a page from the Mafia's playbook and started running their gangs like a business. Sammy the Bull basically said as much, that the organization was changing and the old ways of doing business had given way to new methods.