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The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.

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Pete Hamill

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I was born in 1935. But my mother and father – who were immigrants from Ireland – and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.

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The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys’ name.

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May 21, 2024

The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys’ name.

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May 21, 2024

I was born in 1935. But my mother and father – who were immigrants from Ireland – and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.

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