The mafia helped Joe the Bootlegger’s Boy get elected to the White House by arranging for a number of long-dead people in Chicago to vote.
Their reward was Robert Kennedy who, as attorney general, embarked on a determined crusade to jail or deport top mafia figures—to the chagrin of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who refused even to acknowledge the existence of a cosa nostra.
Mob bosses were outraged. In their minds, how dare the Kennedys bite the hand that fed them? RFK then orchestrated the deportation of Carlos Marcello to Sicily, his homeland. Humiliated and outraged, Marcello snuck back into the U.S. and began plotting.
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