John Dillinger, was born on June 22, 1903 and like any other kid that grew up in a big city like Indianapolis he sought potential and one way Dillinger knew how to get things was by stealing. This man owns some of the greatest robberies that have ever happened. On top of that John Dillinger was nearly invincible, this man could escape almost any situation you put him until he was killed. He was actually well liked by the people because many people compared him to the folktale Robin Hood. By the age of ten he and his buddies were stealing coal they had “pinched” from the Pennsylvania Railroad gondolas.
He took advantage of the prohibition to make millions off of smuggling and bootlegging liquor into Chicago and other states. Al Capone used many different ways to eliminate enemies which always included a positive alibi. This caused him to get away with murder while living the high life. Capone also had an organized spy network that gave him information on any plots against him. This caused him to be one step ahead of everyone.
Although it is only a light at the end of a dock, the green light brings Gatsby with the hope he needs to do other things, usually involving money, to win Daisy. Another symbol that gives Gatsby hope is his money. Gatsby uses his money to try to win daisy. Gatsby has very large and extravagant parties all because he hopes that Daisy will attend at least one. Gatsby also tries to show Daisy how rich he is by wearing expensive clothes.
It is said that he formalized corruption and many of the men who became prominent leaders in crime, received their start from him. Remus moved to Cincinnati, which is right across the river from Newport. During this time, selling liquor was prohibited in Kentucky; Remus saw this as an opportunity to make money by bootlegging the illegal liquor. Remus was a pharmacist and this allowed him to purchase liquor from the Treasury Department for use in producing medicines, but this liquor was diverted to illegal sales. George Remus soon became known as the “King of Bootleggers.” His bootlegging enterprise was growing fast; he was delivering liquor by the truck loads to Ohio, throughout Kentucky, and all the way to Indiana.
The scene quickly changes to Gatsby’s mansion and in one of his parties in which Nick attends and ‘’was one of the few guests who had actually been invited’’. This also shows that Gatsby expends all this money on a party for people he may not know who have merely invited themselves and are welcomed simply for coming. One point of view is that he may be doing all this for Daisy to attract her in and show how rich and well-known he has become in New-York so that she would leave Tom and be reunited with him. At this point of the chapter we find Nick change from a spectator to a participator. During this chapter and most of the story, we see through Nick’s perspective of the party.
Gatsby's mob life was the result of a sacrifice he had to make. Gatsby joined the mob for money, money he could use to appeal to Daisy. Through various deals described throughout the book, it was apparent that Gatsby had “connections” with some very big people such as Meyer Wolfshiem. Gatsby's mob agenda included the trafficking alcohol by illegal means, “He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter.” (97). Gatsby was not only associated with alcohol sales, but stealing from banks, “‘Hell of a note, isn’t it?
Lansky and Siegel formed the Bug and Meyer Mob, which became Murder, Inc. Lansky's primary order of business was money and gambling, and he had operations in Florida, Cuba and New Orleans. He was an investor in Siegel's Las Vegas casino, and he even bought an offshore bank in Switzerland that was used for money laundering. A financial genius, he co-developed the National Crime Syndicate and the Commission. But business is never personal, and he approved the murder of his best friend Bugsy Siegel when Siegel was unable to produce profits for the Syndicate. Even with a gambling racket in operation across the planet, Lansky never spent a day in jail.
He made a name for himself during the Prohibition era. In 1925 after taking over a notorious gang in Chicago, Capone expanded this operation and now controlled hundreds of speakeasies, distilleries, and breweries. To keep the operation afloat, Capone had the city officials and policeman on his payroll. He was tabbed as “Public Enemy number One, and lived up to his name. Until the St. Valentine’s Day massacre, Capone made millions from racketeering illegal alcohol.
Records show mob-linked companies have been subcontractors on most of the major projects of the last few years, including highway repair, the midtown office tower boom, the massive water treatment plant in the Bronx, even the rebuilding of the World Trade Center. While wagering on sporting events and races across state lines is illegal. Seeing an opportunity, the Mafia set up Web sites in Costa Rica—one of several South American and Caribbean countries where online sports betting is legal—to process online bets placed back home in New York. “It's not that the Mob is necessarily branching into new industries. It's just that they've pushed age-old breadwinners—prostitution, gambling, and money laundering—to new levels (or depths) in order to compete in an increasingly globalized economy.”(Bonner, Stayton.)
Drug Trafficking in United States: Use of Mules During my preliminary search into drug trafficking in the United States, I was shocked to discovered I am living in a high location involved in drug trafficking. Although Texas is identified for many crimes involving the Mexican cartels, one underline fact is the drug trafficking and the use of “mules”. “Mules,” are the use of human or vehicles to transport narcotics into the United States. According to recent reports by the Drug Enforcement Administration or DEA (2012) “recent interagency intelligence assessment approximately 65 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States crosses the Southwest borders with the aid of “mules”. The main reason I choose this topic is due to a recent involvement of a close friend of the family.