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Five Families by Selwyn Rob

Selwyn Rob is our double A B. His book Five Families about the history of the major New York crime families, you know, really from their origins and Sicily through prohibition all the way up to quite recently. In 1957, there was a conclave of mob bosses that was held there or was to be held there. It actually got broken up before they actually started meeting. There's all these scenes of mob bosses fleeing into the cornfields and throwing money.

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