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Article: A civil attack on fraud.
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- Security Management
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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Civil litigation, which helped break the mob's long grip on the Fulton Fish Market, can be a powerful tool to fight fraud.
The Fulton fish market had been a captive of organized crime for nearly seventy years, yet public law enforcement found itself powerless to end the cycle of violence and shakedowns that had dominated the New York City retail and restaurant establishment since the early twentieth century.
By 1934, the Mafia's grip was so tight, the market's seafood wholesalers association determined it was safer to pay protection fees to the local crime family than to report fraud to the police. Even when convictions were won, police were unable to drive ...