Do you agree with Thomas Schelling that the business of organized crime is extor

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Do you agree with Thomas Schelling that the business of organized crime is extortion, and that those criminals who provide goods and services are its victims? Why or why not?
2. Explain how the mafia in Galveston Texas became such a large entity. Why Galveston? Explain.
3. Rose Maceo and his family were immigrants from Sicily. Why is it that most mafia families immigrated from other countries? Explain using the Maceo family. Do you agree with Thomas Schelling that the business of organized crime is extortion, and that those criminals who provide goods and services are its victims? Why or why not?
2. Explain how the mafia in Galveston Texas became such a large entity. Why Galveston? Explain.
3. Rose Maceo and his family were immigrants from Sicily. Why is it that most mafia families immigrated from other countries? Explain using the Maceo family. Do you agree with Thomas Schelling that the business of organized crime is extortion, and that those criminals who provide goods and services are its victims? Why or why not?
2. Explain how the mafia in Galveston Texas became such a large entity. Why Galveston? Explain.
3. Rose Maceo and his family were immigrants from Sicily. Why is it that most mafia families immigrated from other countries? Explain using the Maceo family.

Explanation / Answer

1) Schelling notes that, the core business of organized crime is extortion, based on the threat of injury, along with efforts to monopolize legitimate business lines, by physical destruction or intimidation of competition. Extortion begins on those who perform illegal activities: sex workers, human traffickers, smugglers, people selling piracy, and illegal taxi drivers. According to Schelling, the victims of organized crime have no means to ask for legal protection from the authorities due to their illegal status. They have no choice but to accept the gangster’s claims and pay.

2) During the Twenties, Galveston Island emerged as a popular resort town, attracting celebrities from around the country. Gambling, illegal liquor, and other vice-oriented businesses were a major part of tourism. Two major figures of the era were the organized-crime bosses Sam and Rosario Maceo, who ran the chief casinos and clubs on the island and were heavily involved in the government and the tourism industry. Galveston was also an important national commercial center and one of the busiest seaports in the United States as the Port of Galveston was able to capitalize on Texas' rapid rise in the cotton trade.

3) The Maceos had migrated from Palermo, Sicily, to Louisiana around the turn of the century, when Sam was six and Rose was thirteen. Vic was born in Louisiana in 1903, seven years before the family moved to Galveston. In their early days on the Island, Rose and Sam were barbers. Sam, who was smoother and more sophisticated and spoke better English, worked at the new ritzy Galvez Hotel. Rose, who was meaner, tougher, and more ambitious, had a barber’s chair on Murdoch’s Pier, which was a hangout for Ollie Quinn and the Beach Gang. As Prohibition took hold, the Maceo brothers began to give gifts of wine (low-quality to be sure) that they were able to smuggle to their customers. As their customers became more interested in the liquor they gradually became more serious bootleggers. Rose Maceo had part of his business on Murdoch's Pier, a hangout for Ollie Quinn, leader of the Beach Gang which was one of two main gangs on the island. Rose built a relationship with Quinn and the Maceo brothers gradually allied themselves with the Beach Gang. They opened a "cold drink place,” and invested in the gang's gambling operations. Eventually the Beach Gang leader Ollie Quinn and the Maceos opened the Hollywood Dinner Club, the Gulf Coast's most elegant night club at the time. . Fortuitous arrests of the leaders of the gangs allowed the Maceo brothers to gain control of the island's underworld.

In case of rose aand sam they had a dream of developing there business and having an happy life but they needed money and relationship with  Ollie Quinn and the Beach Gang made them to earn some money so these urged them to make more money and become rich so rose started selling low quality wine and these is where the maceo family (rose and sam) become famous and earned lot of money

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