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LLCU 213 Midterm exam with completesolutions 2024/2025
After booze, what was the main source of income for organized crime in Canada?
- ANSWER-Illegal gambling
Where did the phrase "Octopus of Bookmarking" come from? - ANSWER-In 1938,
the Toronto Daily Star ran a series entitled "Canada in the bookies' web," which
investigated the "vast octopus of bookmaking" that spread from Montreal to
Vancouver.
- Up until the end of the Second World War, the illegal gaming industry in Canada
was characterized by pure competition; no one individual or group dominated.
What did Charlie Lucky Luciano do? - ANSWER-In 1933 he created a governing
Mafia Commission in the U.S.
United States and Canada were divided into 24 separate regions, each of which
would be under the jurisdiction of a particular Mafia family.
What was the significance of international pipelines? - ANSWER-International
pipeline for drugs smuggled into the United States.
Throughout the 1930s, Canada's coastlines and official maritime ports were well-
travelled entry points for opium exported from Asia and morphine and heroin
processed in Europe.
,The other name for French Connection - ANSWER-The criminal syndicate behind
what would be called the French Connection was L'Union Corse.
Until the mid-1970, the world capital for heroin production and distribution was ...
- ANSWER-Marseilles.
* The hub for the conversion of Turkish opium and Lebanese morphine into
heroin.
What was the significance of Montreal? - ANSWER-Quebec's cultural,
commercial, and linguistic ties to France, the subservience of the Mafia in the
province to the American Cosa Nostra, as well as Montreal's inviting seaports and
close proximity to New York, made the city a major entry point for heroin being
shipped into North America.
Significance of Palermo? - ANSWER-A major turning point in the development of
the international heroin trade, and Canada's role in the trade, was the meeting
hosted by Lucky Luciano in Palermo.
Attending the meeting were a delegation of American Mafia leaders, most notably
Joe Bonanno and his underboss Carmine Galante, as well as Sicilian Mafiosi,
Gaetano Badalamenti and Tommaso Buscetta.
Palermo connection to Joe Bonanno - ANSWER-The FBI believed it was at this
meeting that Joseph Bonanno was convinced to participate in the Cosa Nostra's
international heroin trafficking network.
In the late 1950s, members of the Bonanno Family in New York and Montreal
became much more active in organizing the importation and distribution of
heroin, which significantly increased Montreal's role as a North American access
point for European-processed heroin.
What was the significance of Apalachin, NY? - ANSWER-The Palermo meeting
was followed a month later by a summit of Cosa Nostra leaders from every corner
, of America and Canada. Held at Mafia associate Joseph Barbara's country estate
in the town of Appalachian in upstate New York, it has been asserted that one of
the purposes of the meeting was to hammer out the details for the distribution of
the heroin in America and Canada by the different Mafia families.
What was the The Nixon administration's impact on heroin? - ANSWER-
persuaded Turkey to ban the cultivation of opium in exchange for subsidization
of alternative crops. That same year, an official agreement was reached with
French authorities to crack down on the extensive heroin processing and
trafficking network based in Marseilles
The result of these measures was a major reorganization of heroin trafficking:
Turkey was replaced as the chief supplier of heroin by the "gold triangle" of
Thailand, Burma, and Laos and the "golden crescent" of Pakistan, Iran and
Afghanistan.
What was the significance of Gaetano Badalament's role in heroin trafficking? -
ANSWER-Badalamenti was highly receptive to the partnership, recognizing the
American market for heroin would generate untold profits for the Sicilian families.
He made a decision behind the back of his American Mafia partners that
escalated the role of Canada in the new global heroin trafficking hierarchy even
further.
What did Tommaso Buscetta do? - ANSWER-Badalamenti instructed Buscetta to
create a parallel pipeline from Sicily to Montreal, Windsor, Toronto and, from
there, into the United States.
Both networks would pass through Canada en route to America.
Who was Harry Davis? - ANSWER-Many of the city's gambling and bookmaking
operations were run by Jewish gangs.
The most powerful gambling boss was Harry Davis.
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