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  1. themobmuseum.org › blog › robert-f-kennedys-crusade-mobRobert F. Kennedy’s crusade against the Mob: Part 1

    Jun 6, 2018 · His excesses with warrantless (and likely illegal) wiretaps and bugging of the homes and meeting places of mobsters and Mob associates – to obtain raw intelligence not useable in court – in the early ’60s caused him political grief when the secrets were revealed a couple of years later.

  2. themobmuseum.org › blog › robert-f-kennedys-crusadeROBERT F. KENNEDY’S CRUSADE AGAINST THE MOB: PART 3

    Jun 14, 2018 · In December 1961, IRS criminal agents, as part of RFK’s crackdown, performed simultaneous raids in 22 states, arresting 128 people in 100 betting parlors suspected of not paying gambling taxes. His continued national onslaught against the syndicate would be referred to as “Operation Big Squeeze.”.

  3. themobmuseum.org › blog › robert-f-kennedys-crusadeRobert F. Kennedy’s crusade against the Mob: Part 2

    Jun 11, 2018 · As the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles is recognized this week – he was shot on June 5, 1968, and died the following day – one aspect of his complex legacy is less likely to be emphasized: his unprecedented crusade to expose and prosecute the Mob in America.

  4. www.history.com › news › robert-kennedy-started-theHow Bobby Kennedy Started the War on Gangs - HISTORY

    Feb 1, 2018 · Long before MS‑13, Bobby Kennedy battled J. Edgar Hoover to take on the Mafia.

    • Becky Little

  5. www.washingtonpost.com › archive › lifestyleROBERT F. KENNEDY'S ANTI-CRIME TIME - The Washington Post

    Dec 4, 1995 · The most reluctant recruit and sometime saboteur of the anti-Mafia crusade -- as numerous books have shown and Goldfarb shows once more -- was FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who believed or ...

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  7. www.latimes.com › archives › la-xpm-1997-nov-09-mnMafia Helped JFK to Win, Book Claims - Los Angeles Times

    Nov 9, 1997 · The reason Mafia leaders were willing to aid Kennedy’s candidacy was their belief, according to Blakey, that “the Kennedys would do something for them,” specifically, Hersh writes, “reduce...

  8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › CIA_assassination_attemptsCIA assassination attempts on Fidel Castro - Wikipedia

    On October 26, 2017, during the presidency of Donald Trump, declassified documents revealed that US Attorney General Robert Kennedy hesitated to recruit the Mafia in assassination attempts on Castro due to his push against organized crime.

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