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é lad businessmen in the "Little Italy" section of the city, demanding sums of money 5 ranging from $50 to $3,000. The conspiracy of silence ana 4 pee IO COT ON eu e witnesses were so complete at one time that, despite the arrests of numerous =) iia 1 15 Black Hand criminals, including ‘taliosl, the chief of police admitted that ; 16 17 prosecution was virtually bnpossible. (74-1392-12, p. 5) 18 ; *9 5, West Coast 20 rns Ss Mack Hand plage also extended to the west coast in the early 23 54 1900's, Ti was tho same story there, with the familiar techniques of 25 26 intimidation, extortion, violence, revenge, and murder being used with Pati i 26 devastating elfect agaiast the restdsnts of Italian communities. 33 7 | (62-75157-26-426, pp. 25-26) 32 33 Although there bave looo many alleged Olack Hand incidents 34 35 since 1@Z0, it {s apparent that most so-called Ulack Hand letters have buen £ Ht employed by parsons trying to capitalize on the fear such communications 2? have penexated In ftallan commesiifies in this country in the past. Some of 4} 7 42 the extortion cases with Black Hond Insignia investigated by the Bureau indicate 43 | | 44 that Black Hand methods tare also bo2n usod hy non-Itallans against non-Itallan 55 (56) md victims, (62-9448-1, 15; 9-1914; 9-1891-5; 62-108-2405; 66-2542-2912x; 9-2334; 48 9-6649; 9-G666; 9-1535; 9-3648; 9-23841-2, 5, 9) 4g 50 $1 52 53 59 - 40 - | 1}