"Laborers.Org." [http://www.laborers.org]. 14 February 2000.Abstract: A website produced by members of the Laborers International Union of North America, presented as an unofficial look at the Laborers Union of North America and with the belief that members have a right to know all relevant and pertinent information pertaining to the governance of the union. Their goal is to take back control of their union from organized crime, institute democratic reform, promote fiduciary responsibility and improve the economic and social welfare of all laborers.

Abadinsky, Howard. Organized Crime. Chicago: Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1997.Call Number: HV 6446 .A224 1997Abstract: Organized crime is explained in terms of its structure, history, current features, and policies, laws, and control efforts by the criminal justice system. Chapter Ten focuses on organized crime in labor and business.

Bailey, Lisa Pritchard, et al. "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. (Fourteenth Survey of White Collar Crime)." American Criminal Law Review 36, no. 3(Summer 1999): 57 p.Notes: Available full-text on InfoTracAbstract: The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) was passed in 1970 chiefly to control organized crime, though since then it has been broadly construed to apply in other contexts as well. Conviction requires proof of two or more predicate acts of racketeering activity, constituting a pattern, that affects interstate commerce. Defenses include invalidity of one or more of the predicate acts, while penalties include fines, imprisonment, and forfeiture of assets.

Balsamo, William and George Carpozi, Jr. Crime Incorporated or Under the Clock: The Inside Story of the Mafia's First Hundred Years. Far Hills, NJ: New Horizons Press, 1991*.Call Number: HV 6446 .B35 1991Notes: *1999 edition on order. Abstract: This book details the development of the Mafia's underworld activity from before the turn of the 20th Century to the present day.

Block, A. A. Business of Crime: A Documentary Study of Organized Crime in the American Economy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, Inc., 1991.Call Number: HV 6448 .B87 1991Abstract: This documentary study of organized crime's penetration and control of several areas of U.S. industrial society is composed of reports by State and Federal investigative bodies and court documents, particularly civil and criminal indictments that are related to the Mafia and La Cosa Nostra.

This bibliography is a representative selection of materials either owned or on order by the FBI Academy Library. Inclusion of an item does not represent an endorsement by the FBI of the material or its author.

Horowitz, Carl F. "Union Corruption: Why It Happens, How To Combat It." 1999.
[http://www.nilrr.org/corruption.htm]. 15 February 2000. Abstract: Unions are susceptible to ripoffs in large part because there is so much money to be ripped off in the first place. Federal law for decades has given unions the privilege of requiring new employees to join. In that sense, the law has been an unwitting accomplice to corruption in labor unions, whether the pile of money lay in operating revenues or member benefit plans. Labor unions, ostensibly established to promote the interests of their members, too often embody the abuse of trust in the service of greed and power. This monograph uses television transcripts, government audits, books, and newspaper archives of the National Institute for Labor Relations Research to detail a problem far more pervasive than many realize.

Infoplease.com. "Teamsters Union." [http://infoplease.lycos.com/ce5/CE051048.html].
15 February 2000.Abstract: A descriptive history of the Teamsters Union

Jacobs, James B., et al. Busting the Mob: United States v. Cosa Nostra. New York:
New York University Press, 1994.Call Number: KF 224 .M2J33 1994 Abstract:
This book documents the Government's relentless attack on organized crime.
It presents an overview of the forces and events that led in the 1980's to the
most successful organized crime control initiatives in American history,
highlighting five landmark cases: Teamsters Local 560, "The Pizza Connection," "The Commission," the International Teamsters, and the prosecution of John Gotti.

Jerry Capeci. "Jerry Capeci's Gang Land - Real Stuff About Organized Crime." [http://www.ganglandnews.com]. 15 February 2000. Abstract: This web site evolved from a column titled "Gang Land" that Jerry Capeci wrote for six years in The New York Daily News on organized crime, labor racketeering and official corruption.

Lindberg, Richard C. "The Mafia in America: Traditional Organized Crime in Transition - An Overview of Current Conditions." 1998. [http://www.search-international.com/artmafia.htm]. 15 February 2000.Abstract: While significant Federal prosecutions in the 1980's and 1990's have crippled the power of the 26 Mafia "families" in the U.S., and "old-time" bosses are either imprisoned, dead or in exile as a result of sweeping RICO legislation and strike forces, the Mafia is down--but never out. Their corruptive influence is deep and pervasive and extends well beyond drug trafficking, extortion, and the more traditional forms of vice. Its tentacles reach into organized labor, and every facet of legitimate business. This web article presents a historic and contemporary overview of organized crime.

President's Commission on Organized Crime. Organized Crime and Labor-Management Racketeering in the United States - Hearing VI, Chicago, Illinois, April 1985. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1985.Call Number: PR 40.8:C 86/L 11Abstract: This hearing of the President's Commission on Organized Crime examines organized criminal influences in the marketplace: the owning and operation of legitimate business and entire industries in some cases; its union influences; and its involvement in theft, extortion, bribery, price-fixing, and restraint of trade.

US Attorney General. Attorney General's Guidelines on General Crimes, Racketeering Enterprise and Domestic Security /Terrorism Investigations. Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, 1989. Call Number: J 1.8/2:C 74x Abstract: These guidelines provide guidance for all investigations by the FBI of crimes and crime-related activities. The racketeering investigations focus on enterprises engaged in racketeering activities involving violence, extortion, narcotics, or systematic public corruption.

US General Accounting Office. "Investigators Guide to Sources of Information, Chapter 2: Federal Agencies." April 1997. [http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/soi/soi_ch2.htm]. 15 February 2000.Abstract: An investigative tool for identifying sources of information about people, property, business, and finance. Chapter 2 provides a detailed list of Federal agencies and the type of information collected by each agency.

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