mafia trials
Organized crime cases
Mafia trials are criminal prosecutions of organized crime figures, particularly members of Italian-American crime families.
The term often refers specifically to the landmark 1980s prosecutions in Italy and the United States that used new legal tools like RICO statutes to target entire criminal organizations rather than individual crimes: The mafia trials of the 1980s broke the mob's grip on New York.
- wiretappingCovert phone surveillance
- criminal lawStatutes defining punishable offenses
- RICO ActFederal anti-organized-crime legislation
- racketeeringConducting illegal business schemes
- kiss of deathUltimately ruinous act
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mafia trialsmisdemeanor cases
Prosecutions for minor crimes
traffic court · small claims court · infractions · parking violations
mafia trialswitness intimidation
Threatening courtroom testifiers
hung juries · omertà · evidence tampering · judicial corruption
mafia trialsmob rule
Dominance by unruly crowds
vigilante justice · vendetta · backroom deals · protection rackets · police corruption
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