Philip Rubenstein
The Crime Families of New York
Summary
From their New York headquarters, a small number of organized crime families – aka the Mob, aka the Mafia – stole, pillaged, corrupted, intimidated and murdered their way through the greater part of the twentieth century, blighting the lives of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans. Immigration created them, Prohibition burnished them, and for too long, officialdom turned a blind eye, while the rest of us romanticized them through books, newspapers and movies.
Philip Rubenstein
Philip Rubenstein was director of the Parliamentary War Crimes Group, which, in the mid-to-late 1980s, campaigned to bring Nazi war criminals living in the UK to justice. Philip was also the founder-director of the Holocaust Educational Trust and played a role in getting the study of the Shoah onto the national school’s curriculum in the UK. These days, he works with family businesses, advising on governance and continuity from one generation to the next.