In this endeavor to answer the proposed question, this literature will examine the sovereignty of the longest continuously operating organized crime group in the United States, Cosa Nostra, or Italian-American Crime Families. ... As time passed, new laws were enacted to address conspiracies in restraint of trade and other economic offenses. Yet by the time the last wave of Sicilian immigrants reached America, the names of these great robber barons were connected with great universities, foundations, and charitable institutions. ... Howard Abadinsky explains what happened, "Prohibition acted ...

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