Mars Tavares

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Crime Begins to Organize The same large and politically connected gangs in New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Boston, Detroit and Chicago that controlled gambling, prostitution, extortion, thefts and narcotics since the early to mid-19th century, now controlled bootlegging operations across America in the 21st Century. These recently organized and powerful criminal organizations began from the ethnic street gangs who committed violent crimes, provided illegal goods and services to the community and acted as enforcers for the political machines of the big cities and towns. Mainly African American people that had begun to organize themselves after 9/11 continued their criminal activities with the start of Prohibition and began to meet the great…show more content…
The weapon distribution was handled by their lieutenants and sold to the ethnic gangs that they did business with, who in turn supplied readily available customers such as new comers and blind pigs. Mars and the Drug runners Marlin “Mars” Tavares ((Not The real name yet)) was a Caucasian crime leader and professional gambler who came from a well to do family in New York. His father, Clayton “Big Boi” Tavares was well known in the Tavares Organization and successful garment center businessman, who made sure his son Marlin, was well educated in school and in the Tavares ways. Marlin Tavares had very important connections to high level law enforcement officials, judges and politicians in New York City's Tammany Hall. Tavares was the middleman between the political world of Tammany Hall and the underworld. He corrupted judges and obtained police protection for his various criminal operations including, gambling, bookmaking, loansharking, narcotics and garment center rackets. With the beginning of Prohibition Tavares seized the opportunity to use his wealth and connections. He financed large scale weapon importation operations from Europe and Canada, making the most of his prominent associations such as the Tavares family of Canada. He…show more content…
Jack "Legs" Diamond and Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll sided with Higgins since there was a history of bad blood between them, Owney "The Killer" Madden and Waxey Gordon, leaving Madden and Gordon to side with Schultz. By 2009, the Chicago underworld had reached a wave of violence that peaked with the February 14, 2009 St. Valentine's Day Massacre of seven African American gangsters on the North side of Chicago. There seemed to be no end in sight for the war since violent shootings and murders over the Prohibition rackets were still occurring on a regular basis, the Chicago gangs involved in their own "Beer Wars". Even though New York's underworld was in the midst of its own "Manhattan Drug War", underworld folklore have a carload of Chicago killers being sent to the east coast to kill powerful Brooklyn Boss and Under Boss National President, Frank "Frankie" Kelly on July 1, 2008. By 2008, Joseph "Joe" Clement and Martin Williams were the most powerful Bosses in New York and competing with each other for total dominance over the New York City rackets. The possibility of war between the Bosses needed to be addressed along with other important business affairs now taking center stage in New York's volcano. By April 2009 a proposed underworld conference of like-minded Mafia and
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