(Part 3) Best organized crime true accounts according to redditors
We found 399 Reddit comments discussing the best organized crime true accounts. We ranked the 147 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
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The book I just read, Evidence Ignored: What You May Not Know About Columbine has a chapter on the Trenchcoat Mafia. It's pretty detailed. The Amazon preview has the entire chapter you can read for free:
https://www.amazon.com/Evidence-Ignored-What-About-Columbine-ebook/dp/B07ZFDCY2J/
Ric Burns 8-part documentary, New York is excellent, albeit long, if you seek history.
The Alienist is a thrilling historical novel.
The Westies is a nonfiction book about the Irish mob in Hell's Kitchen in the 70s and 80s. Fascinating, grizzly, and psychopathic.
Some favorite movies for their unique look at NYC: The Naked City (1948), The French Connection (1971), Panic in Needle Park (1971--not great, butNeedle Park is 72nd and Bway), Death Wish (1974), Mean Streets (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975), Cruising (1980--Pacino infiltrates the gay scene), and a host of Woody Allen movies like Annie hall, Manhattan, Broadway Danny Rose, Hannah and Her Sisters, he has a couple dozen set in NYC form the early 70s through the present.
Underboss is great because unlike Hill's account in Wiseguy, Sammy the Bull wasn't an associate. He was a mademan and became underboss briefly towards the end of Gott's reign.
http://www.amazon.com/Underboss-Peter-Maas/dp/0061096644
The Westies is fascinating because it details a crime org other than the Italian mafia.
http://www.amazon.com/Westies-Inside-New-Yorks-Irish/dp/0312924291
The Born to Kill gang is another fascinating one. However, they weren't that organized.
http://www.amazon.com/Born-Kill-Notorious-Vietnamese-Organized/dp/0688122388
The Man Who Made it Snow is about Max Mermelstein who trafficked cocaine in the 80s. He was involved in the events discussed in the doc Cocaine Cowboys.
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Made-Snow/dp/0671703129
Boss of Bosses is told from the FBI's point of view as they try to get Paul Costellano.
http://www.amazon.com/Boss-Bosses-FBI-Paul-Castellano/dp/0440212294
Modern culture?
There’s “Hell Bent”: https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Bent-Mans-Crusade-Crush-Hawaiian/dp/0762793031/ref=nodl_
It’s actually a very accurate recounting and a good read. Unfortunately, it is NOT about the happy stuff that Hawaii is known for.
Have you read the book DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You? It details the rise in carding starting in Russia and later in the West includes some biographies of the more prolific carder. If so, how accurate was the book and what did you think?
Were you or anyone you knew ever involved in skimming gas station pumps?
What was the community like as far as person to person interaction? Did you guys all know each other or was it pretty anonymous?
What was the most expensive thing you ever purchased thanks to your carding?
What do you think is the best solution to the problem of identity theft? Like to stop the practice as a whole.
Did you have any interaction with JiLsi, Matrix00, Iceman, Master Splynter or Lord Cyric?
Did you ever go on Dark Market (I think it may have existed after you quit).
Have you ever worked with LEOs or the FBI and between those two and the secret service who was the most competent?
Dark Market talks about how Washington Mutual just simply did not give a fuck about security because they were so cheap. Was this your eexperience? What banks/credit companies were the easiest to scam?
Speaking as another noob, so this may be wrong, but my general impression is that a lot of hackers get caught because they're turned in by fellow hackers. I just read this interesting book mostly about people running carding sites. It seemed like most of the story wasn't so much law enforcement vs. the hackers, as hackers vs. hackers, and FBI vs. CIA. Even the cleverest hackers are still only human, so there occur rivalries, jealousies, all kinds of disagreements, and next thing you know someone you've worked with and trusted is doxing you. Also a clever (and sufficiently funded) investigator can pose as a hacker for a long time and gain trust in the community.
As far as LulzSec, there were a few chat logs leaked by members of the group. I don't know what role that played in the arrests, but it sure didn't help them.
Also anyone making public statements can potentially be identified by unique phrasings in their writing. With enough writing samples, investigators might be able to associate the hacker's writing with something written under the person's own name.
And I think sometimes people forget about physical evidence. Maybe they're behind 7 proxies, but have incriminating evidence on their computer which gets seized for something else, or get caught on security camera doing something incriminating.
I find this topic very interesting just from a human psychology standpoint. Probably some hackers want to get caught for one reason or another, and keep taking more risks until that happens.
I'm almost done reading the book Gomorrah which goes deep in to the world of organized crime in Italy. It seems as though the government has all but lost control to these groups. These criminal enterprises bring in billions of dollars to the Italian economy. If organized crime was completely shut down tomorrow in Italy, it's entire economy would collapse.
Italy simply can not break the backs of these criminal organizations by playing by the rules. They will have to play dirty. So perhaps, and I'm not saying I'm for it, the Italian government may have to become a bit fascist to deal with these people.
You should really read Brian Krebs' book, Spam Nation (non-affiliate amazon link). Whether you like Krebs' stuff or not, his book covers essentially all of this. He talks a lot about these sorts of things while telling his story with some notorious Russian individuals. Such as private hosts or hosts that are known as "safe" to generally unwanted customers. Even common tactics for how the services/hosts are paid for (stolen credit cards, bitcoins, etc).
As for how, anyone with some programming experience and determination can make a lightweight server and client program to do what they need. Having many clients report to a server program (or three) is a good topic to study if you're into programming. Others find open-source programs and modify them to do what they need. Obviously distributing a client program is a very different topic, that I won't discuss here
Damn, I always mix up his name. My understanding was Nucky Johnson was much more of a political boss steeped in corruption and bootlegging. It is doubtful that he was involved in violent crime. I read the book Paddy Whacked awhile back and he is only briefly mentioned and strictly as a political boss.
No idea why my post was down voted... I think Boardwalk Empire is a fantastic show, I just think there are plenty of other far more interesting criminals that were around during this period. Maybe I am the only one itching to see more Capone/O'Bannion or Luciano/Joe Masseria rivalry, they did a great job casting these characters but they kind of get sidelined.
https://www.amazon.com/Tong-Wars-Untold-Murder-Chinatown/dp/0399562273#productDescription_secondary_view_div_1526096184541
Read the natashas
recommended: Gomorrah movie book
Blood and Honor
On aforementioned Brian Krebs' blog? He wrote a book too:
https://www.amazon.com/Spam-Nation-Organized-Cybercrime-Epidemic/dp/1402295618/
https://www.amazon.com.au/American-Made-Killed-Escobar-George-ebook/dp/B01KQNAM1M
This book written by Shaun Attawood. Check him out on YouTube.
Highly recommend Blood & Honor if you’re at all interested in the Philadelphia Mob. Some wild stuff
Thank you! You're right and it's just the Ella/Ink Spots song and "Pistol Packing Momma" that cross over; I guess it just feels like there are more when I'm driving around LA. Still, I could've sworn I heard "Crazy He Calls Me."
> Technically, since the game takes place in 1947, and the vinyl LP was not invented until 1948, all the game's soundtrack should exist on 78s.
Out of curiosity, were 78s the most common medium for radio broadcast of music and other recorded content in the late 40s? I'm coincidentally reading L.A. Noir right now and the author described Jack Webb as a "disc jockey," which made me realize that I don't know how recorded audio was played on the radio.
You should be good. This The Black Hand is an adaptation of this novel: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Hand-Brilliant-Detective-Deadliest/dp/0544633385
Irish Mob history? Paddy Wacked by: T.J. English
https://www.amazon.com/Paddy-Whacked-Untold-American-Gangster/dp/0060590033/
also I second all of Erik Larson's work especially Devil in the White City and Garden of Beast both amazing reads.
His next film is about Joseph Petrosino and his war against the Black Hand. I highly recommend reading the book the film will be based on, which was just released back in April.
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Hand-Brilliant-Detective-Deadliest/dp/0544633385
Looking for non-fiction book recommendations. Finished Tong Wars awhile back and I highly recommend it. I have Viet Thanh Nguyen's novels on my list, but I'm not quite in the mood for fiction at the moment.
Here are the best historical Mafia books that I can recall off the top of my head:
Boss of Bosses - About the killing of one of the last true old school mafia bosses
Wiseguy - The book that Goodfellas is based on.
The Westies - About the Irish New York Mob
The Valachi Papers - from the 60's. One of the first to expose the mafia and its tropes to the greater public
Try this one: The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob
According to wikipedia, a TV show ["Lost Angels"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Angels_(TV_series) is coming out based on the book ("L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City."][http://www.amazon.com/L-A-Noir-Struggle-Americas-Seductive/dp/0307352080) The game and the book/show aren't related, and the show was originally named "L.A. Noir" but had to change due to being too similar to the video game.
Hawaii became a Republican-American Republic after the overthrow, then a US Territory, then a US state. Mainland America is still firmly entrenched in the Imperial units of measurement to this day, originally used by the British (now called SAE, Society of Automotive Engineers).
>The British pound has its origins in continental Europe under the Roman era. Its name derives from the Latin word "poundus" meaning "weight". The £ symbol comes from an ornate L in Libra. The pound was a unit of currency as early as 775AD in Anglo-Saxon England, equivalent to 1 pound weight of silver.
The song is referring to the late 70's, early 80's, when Pahoa was still a major sugar plantation area. Pahoa village is actually a plantation village.
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~speccoll/p_puna.html
Ever heard of Kona Gold? It was huge in the 70's and 80's. There is quite a history there, touched on briefly in several books:
https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Bent-Mans-Crusade-Crush-Hawaiian/dp/0762793031
It wasn't a Hawaiian mob, it was tourist transplants that started up marijuana growing and smuggling operations. There are several wealthy families that got rich during this time, up around Kona. Anyway, this period of time is why Hawaii has dragged its feet with marijuana acceptance. There was a time in the 80's, the illegal cannabis export trade exceeded the value of all the other exports combined, including sugar, coffee, orchids and papayas.
https://www.civilized.life/articles/the-history-of-marijuana-in-hawaii/
The real irony here is with Brexit, the British will return to the Pound Sterling as their currency standard. It will mean a major economic disaster for them, with the rest of the planet on a floating currency system with the dollar as the standard, and not reserves of precious metal like gold and silver as a currency standard. England going back to the Pound Sterling will be based on however much silver reserves the Crown has.
Please read these two books: The Johns and The Natashas