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  2. How mafias cash in by preying on hotels, restaurants in Italy

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    Italy's mafias make more than three billion euros a year from the tourism sector and are primed to pocket even more from large-scale upcoming events, a research institute warned on Tuesday.

  3. American Mafia - Wikipedia

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    At the Mafia's peak, there were at least 26 cities around the United States with Cosa Nostra families, with many more offshoots and associates in other cities. There are five main New York City Mafia families, known as the Five Families: the Gambino, Lucchese, Genovese, Bonanno, and Colombo families. The Italian-American Mafia has long ...

  4. 31 Mexican Mafia members and associates face murder ... - AOL

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    The Mexican Mafia, otherwise known as La Eme, consists of senior members of Latino street gangs who've joined together to rule and profit from other California gangs, according to the DOJ.

  5. Crackdown on Harbor-area gangs reveals ties to Mexican Mafia

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    But those in the gangs' upper ranks are "all answering to the same people" — the Mexican Mafia. At a news conference at the LAPD's Harbor station, Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney ...

  6. Five Families - Wikipedia

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    The five Mafia families in New York City are still active, albeit less powerful. The peak of the Mafia in the United States was during the 1940s, and the 1950s, until the year 1970 when the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act) was enacted, which aimed to stop the mafia and organized crime as a whole. [23]

  7. List of criminal enterprises, gangs, and syndicates - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 November 2024. List of groups engaged in illegal activities This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "List of criminal enterprises, gangs, and ...

  8. Catholic nun arrested for bringing mafia messages to prisoners

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    An Italian nun was arrested Thursday as part of a long investigation that led to the arrests of 25 suspects and the seizure of over 1,800,000 euros.

  9. Sicilian Mafia - Wikipedia

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    The Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra (Italian: [ˈkɔːza ˈnɔstra, ˈkɔːsa-], Sicilian: [ˈkɔːsa ˈnɔʂː(ɽ)a]; "our thing" [3]), also referred to as simply Mafia, is a criminal society and criminal organization originating on the island of Sicily and dates back to the mid-19th century. It is an association of gangs which sell their ...