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Ever since its early maritime days and through the 1950s — when gangsters who ran prostitution and gambling rackets made Havana synonymous with decadence — it has always held a slightly seedy, languorous allure.
3) The rise of black urban politics destroyed the big city machines the Mafia once depended upon to carry out its rackets.
In essence, Brookings scholars exist to expose rackets like Fannie Mae.
Why couldn't they get together and agree to pay enough taxes to keep their rackets going?
First, police found 57 deaf Mexicans in "virtual slavery" in Queens ( New York Times ); then similar rackets were busted in North Carolina and Chicago.