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2. 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 ...

3. Sicilian Mafia during the Fascist regime - Wikipedia

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   The History of the Mafia, New York: Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0-231-13134-6; Mori, Cesare (1933) The Last Struggle With the Mafia, London & New York; Putnam; Newark, Tim (2007). Mafia Allies: The True Story of America’s Secret Alliance with the Mob in World War II, Saint Paul, MN: Zenith Press ISBN 0-7603-2457-3

4. 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.

5. Matteo Messina Denaro - Wikipedia

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   The Trapani Mafia is considered the zoccolo duro (solid pedestal) of Cosa Nostra and the most powerful except for the families in Palermo. [ citation needed ] Messina Denaro got his money through an extensive extortion racket forcing businesses to pay a pizzo ( protection money) and through skimming off public construction contracts (the family ...

6. List of Italian Mafia crime families - Wikipedia

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   In the 2018 book, The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia, Alex Perry reports that the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta has, for the past decade, been replacing the Sicilian Cosa Nostra as the primary drug traffickers in North America. [17] Musitano crime family – a Calabrian mafia family, based in ...

7. Moment Italy most wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina ... - AOL

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   Footage shows the moment Italy's most-wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, was apprehended after 30 years on the run.The alleged boss of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia was arrested at a private ...

8. Timeline of organized crime - Wikipedia

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   Sources included are Carl Sifakis's The Mafia Encyclopedia, Herbert Asbury's The Gangs of New York and others. Online references also include Thomas P. Hunt's Mafia Chronology, John Dickie's Cosa Nostra history and The Chronological History of La Cosa Nostra in the United States: January 1920 - August 1987 compiled by the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division's Organized Crime ...

9. Horse’s head and pregnant cow used in ‘barbaric’ mafia threat ...

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   In 2023, Matteo Messina Denaro, a Sicilan Cosa Nostra mafia boss who had been on the run for 30 years was captured while seeking cancer treatment in Palermo, underscoring the level of complicity ...