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The Long Rise and Fast Fall of New York’s Black Mafia

END OF AN ERA

‘You can’t become known as a gangster. Once you’re known you’re finished. The old-timers understood that.’

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Published Dec. 28 2017 5:00AM EST

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C.J. Sullivan

C.J. Sullivan

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