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Insiders describe how technology, attrition and successful prosecutions ended the American Mafia.
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In the 1980s, crime bosses and the families they ruled were forces of nature. John Gotti, in his Brioni suits and fuck-you smile, was known as the “Teflon Don” due to his repeated acquittals, despite allegations he was the boss of the Gambino crime family. Vincent “The Chin” Gigante was known as “The Oddfather,” because he shuffled around New York’s Greenwich Village in his bathrobe, mumbling to parking meters and mimicking dementia to counter claims he was actually the boss of the Genovese crime family.
Powerful, confident and seemingly impervious to prosecution, this is what the…
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