Vicious Circles

This of it as a kind of tax. Every time you buy a pizza or a hamburger or new clothes or use a product that has traveled in a truck the odds are that you are paying a tribute to one of America''s crime families. This book shows that the Mafia and the larger crime syndicate that it dominates has control over much of what the public regards as legitimate business. And when the Dons dominate the marketplace they bring murder arson and violence with them.