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  2. Black Hand (extortion) - Wikipedia

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    Black Hand symbol A New York Police Department wanted poster for Black Hand activity, 1910. Black Hand (Italian: Mano Nera) was a type of Italian extortion racket. Originally developed in the eighteenth century, Black Hand extortion was exported to the United States in the later nineteenth century with Italian immigrants.

  3. The Black Hand (1973 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Black Hand (The Birth of the Mafia) (Italian: La mano nera) is a 1973 Italian crime film written and directed by Antonio Racioppi and starring Lionel Stander, Rosanna Fratello and Michele Placido. [2] [3]

  4. Mano Negra affair - Wikipedia

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    The Black Hand (Spanish: La Mano Negra) was a presumed secret, anarchist organization based in the Andalusian region of Spain and best known as the perpetrators of murders, arson, and crop fires in the early 1880s. [1]

  5. How one Brooklyn neighborhood became instrumental in the rise ...

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    The new Red Hook rulers called themselves la Mano Nera – the Black Hands – and it had no shortage of willing conscripts.. When local young men were sucked into the underworld, it was usually ...

  6. José Manuel Martínez (serial killer) - Wikipedia

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    José Manuel Martínez (born June 13, 1962), [citation needed] dubbed El Mano Negra ("The Black Hand") is a Mexican-American former self-described drug cartel hitman. [2] Martínez confessed to an estimated 36 murders and was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murder in multiple states. He is incarcerated at USP Victorville in ...

  7. 1900s in organized crime - Wikipedia

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    Evidence of La Mano Nera (The Black Hand), an Italian extortionist organization, is seen in Brooklyn, New York. Sicilian Mafia Don Vito Cascio Ferro [Cascioferro] arrives in New York to become a major leader of La Mano Nera (The Black Hand).

  8. Italy’s Claudio Giovannesi (‘Piranhas’) Set For ... - AOL

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    Like all other Italian immigrants, in order to survive they have to work hard in Little Italy: a fierce neighborhood dominated by the Mano Nera, the early Italian-American Mafia,” according to ...

  9. Black Hand - Wikipedia

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    Black Hand (anarchism) (La Mano Negra), a presumed secret, anarchist organization based in the Andalusian region of Spain during the early 1880s; Black Hand (extortion), an extortion racket practised by the Camorra and Mafia members in Italy and the United States Black Hand (Chicago), the extortion as practised in Chicago