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LLCU 213 Midterm Exam Questions With
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After booze, what was the main source of income for organized crime in Canada? -
answer✔Illegal gambling
Where did the phrase "Octupus 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.
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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.
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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.
Who was Harry Ship? - answer✔Another prominent Jewish Gangster was Harry Ship, called the
King of Montreal Gamblers.
East European immigrant Jews (Harry Davis, Barney Sulking, Harry Feldman and Max Shapiro).
Indebted to Frank Erikson, one of the biggest and wealthiest American bookmakers, Harris lost
his prominente role in Quebec.
Erikson had several silent partners, such as Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, and Frank Costello.
Two Montreal-based criminals with ties to Costello and Luciano took over Harris' rackets: Luigi
Greco and Frank Petrula.
Which Mafia groups were where? - answer✔Montreal Mafia = New York's Bonanno Family.
Southwestern Ontario = Detroit's Zerilli Family.
The rest of Ontario's underworld = Buffalo's Magaddino Family.
Who was Frank Petrula? - answer✔Gambler Frank Petrula brought a huge amount of heat on his
associates when police raided his home in 1954 and found a notebook that contained a list of
municipal politicians and journalists who were bribed a total of $100,000 to defeat then
mayoralty candidate Jean Drapeau, who was a reformer against the Mob. Petrula was never
forgiven for this sloppiness, and it was feared he might start co-operating with authorities. Soon,
he was missing and presumed dead.
Who was Vic Cotroni? - answer✔He invested one million dollars to defeat Drapeau in 1957.
Sarto Fournier was elected mayor of Montreal.
