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Convictions is a spellbinding story from the front lines of the fight against crime. Most Americans know little about the work of assistant United States attorneys, the federal prosecutors who possess sweeping authority to investigate and prosecute the nation's most dangerous criminals. John Kroger pursued high-profile cases against Mafia killers, drug kingpins, and Enron executives. Starting from his time as a green recruit and ending at the peak...
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Documentary based on the book by Italian-American author Alexander Stille and featuring the photos of Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, it chronicles the recent history of the Mafia and its integral -- and seemingly ineradicable -- relationship to postwar Italian politics. The film focuses on the events leading up to the historic anti-Mafia trials in Palermo mounted by Italian prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in the mid...
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Lin DeVecchio provides a detailed account of the events surrounding the accusation that he, a supervisory special agent for the FBI agent, ordered four people to be murdered by the mafia, describes his role in the New York mafia wars from the 1970s through the 1990s, and discusses the other crimes he was accused of during his years of service.
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A famous district attorney and federal judge who helped in the captures and convictions of Malcolm X's killers, the corrupt head of the French CIA and a real-life Tony Soprano traces his career while describing his contributions to fighting corruption and dismantling organized crime in New Jersey.
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