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Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family
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Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob
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321:'s Superior Honor Award. In 2013, he was named
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1276:. Oxford University Press. Apr 13, 2015.
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747:"7 indicted in massive credit scam"
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112:United States Department of Justice
1395:Alumni of the University of Oxford
1044:"The many paths of T. Markus Funk"
435:. 27 December 2012. Archived from
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817:Chuck Goudie (27 October 2009).
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377:(Television Program). Reason.tv.
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1068:. 2 April 1997. Archived from
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1246:Funk, T. Markus (2010).
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1095:. Bloomsbury Academic.
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620:Coen, Jeff (2009).
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