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Based on previously unavailable information and nearly two decades of research, Crime Incorporated reveals for the first time all the unsavoury facts of the Mob's bloody evolution from a gang of uncouth, bumbling killers into the highly organized, smoothly running 'corporation' it is today.William Balsamo, great-nephew of the first godfather, Don Guiseppe - 'Battista' - Balsamo, and George Carpozi, Jr. disclose the Mob's savage beginnings in the group of Italian immigrant - the 'Blank Hand' - who tore control of New York's waterfronts away from the Irish racketeers - the 'White Hand' - and went on from there.They trace the Black Hand's coalescence into an organization who insidious influence reached across the country and into a presidential administration.