The sixth family: the collapse of the New York mafia and the rise of Vito Rizzuto e-book

On May 5, 1981, three rebellious member of New York's Bonanno crime family were gunned down in a Brooklyn social club. One of he gunmen was Vito Rizzuto, aman who would rise to the top of the underworld in Canada and then expand across continents to become a global superboss. The Sixth Family reveals the hidden history of the rise of the Rizzuto clan, the alliances it forged around the world and the bloody events that led to charges against Vito Rizzuto in the United States and Italy for racketeering and corruption. As police in the United States, Italy and Canada notions about the nature of authority within the Mafia were called into question. Who was this so-called "John Gotti of Canada"? How did he become one of the biggest names in global crime? Picking up where the best-selling hardcover edition of The Sixth Family left of, Lee Lamothe and Adrian Humphreys expand the story to tell of Rizzuto's aggressive but losing battle to thwart American justice and present in-depth coverage of Rizzuto's New York trial. In the wake of Rizzuto's extradition, police in Quebec carried out Project Colisee, a sensational sweep of the underworld that netted 80 suspected members of the Sixth Family's criminal and financial network in an effort to declaw the Mafia. Is Rizzuto's near-perfect Mafia coming to an end? Or is the underworld legend simply to powerfulto fall? Adrian Humphreys covers organized crime for the National Post and is the author of The Enforcer, the best-selling biography of Johnny "Pops" Papalia, one of North America's longest-reigning Mafia bosses. He was the principal consultant for History television's popular series "Mob Stories" and has written oncrime for the Chicago Sun Times, Britain's Daily Telegraph and Reader's Digest. Lee Lamothe is the author of the bestseller bloodlines: The Rise and Fall of the Mafia's Royal Family; Global Mafia: The New World Order of Organized Crime; Angels, Mobsters & Narco-Terrorists; and The Last Thief, a novel about the Russian Mafia. As a journalist and writer, he has covered organized crime across North America, Europe, South America and Asia. INDICE: Prologue. Chapters. Principal Sources and References. Acknowledgments. Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-15445-8
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 465
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés