Summary: A lawyer whose connection to a ruthless racketeer has nearly destroyed his sense of morality. His participation in a rigged numbers racket could prove disastrous for his high-strung brother whose small-time policy bank stands to go broke when the rigged numbers pay off.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After serving time in prison for racketeering, a once notorious Jewish gangster agrees to lead a straight life with a day job, but he soon finds the world of 'legitimate businessmen' to be just as exploitive and comically immoral.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PLOSummary: Chronicles the life and times of Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson, Atlantic City's undisputed czar at a time when Prohibition proved to be a major catalyst in the rise of organized crime in America. Season three begins on New Year's Eve 1922-23. The roaring '20s are about to start; though the economy is booming, alcohol has become scarce, competition is fierce, and gangster violence is heating up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BOA RATED RSummary: Beginning six years after season four, the country is in the throes of the Great Depression--a stark contrast with the Roaring Twenties. With the end of Prohibition in sight, Nucky is looking to legitimize himself by forging alliances with liquor producers, including Bacardi in Cuba.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOABullough, Oliver
Summary: From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in London and Manhattan, something has gone wrong. Kleptocracies, governments run by corrupt leaders that prosper at the expense of their people, are on the rise. Join the investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a journey into Moneyland--the secret country of the lawless, stateless superrich. Learn how the institutions of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 BULWitwer, David Scott
Summary: "The thrilling and true account of racketeering and union corruption in mid-century New York, when unions and the mob were locked in a power struggle that reverberates to this day"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 WITSummary: A lavish period drama set in Atlantic City, following the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed political and criminal mastermind whose grip on power and control of the city's liquor supply is under constant threat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOAFenton, Justin
Summary: "Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year old black man who had died while in police custody. At the same time, drug and violent crime were surging, and that year, Baltimore would reach its deadliest year in over two decades: 342 homicides in a city of six hundred thousand people. Under intense scrutiny--and a federal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Lehr, Dick
Summary: Explores the relationship between FBI agent John Connolly and Irish mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, chronicling a corrupt arrangement of information, racketeering, and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 LEHSummary: An FBI agent works undercover in a deadly world of counterfeiting, drugs and racketeering. While working to bring down the Mafia from the inside, he must resist the power and seduction of the world he's sworn to destroy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WISSummary: An FBI agent works undercover in a deadly world of counterfeiting, drugs and racketeering. While working to bring down the Mafia from the inside, he must resist the power and seduction of the world he's sworn to destroy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2010