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  2. American Mafia - Wikipedia

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    The American Mafia, [23] [24] [25] commonly referred to in North America as the Italian-American Mafia, the Mafia, or the Mob, [23] [24] [25] is a highly organized Italian-American criminal society and organized crime group.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Peaky Blinders - Wikipedia

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    The most powerful member of the Peaky Blinders was a man known as Kevin Mooney. His real name was Thomas Gilbert, but he routinely changed his last name. [citation needed] Other prominent members of the gang were David Taylor, Earnest Haynes, Harry Fowles, and Stephen McNickle.

  5. Mafia III - Wikipedia

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    Set nearly two decades after its predecessor, Mafia III takes place during the late 1960s, within the fictional U.S. city of New Bordeaux. Situated within America's southern states and coastline, the city is composed of island districts, industrial complexes and ports, high-rise offices and apartments, slums, suburban housing, and historical districts, interconnected by railroads and an ...

  6. Los Angeles crime family - Wikipedia

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    The Los Angeles crime family, also known as the Dragna crime family, the Southern California crime family [7] or the L.A. Mafia, and dubbed "the Mickey Mouse Mafia" by former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, [8] is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Los Angeles, California as part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.

  7. Tracing the powerful family roots of suspected killer Luigi ...

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    Nicholas Mangione Sr was born there in 1925, starting life in a poor immigrant family. ... "People thought I needed money from the mafia to buy this place. They asked me what family I belonged to ...

  8. How one Brooklyn neighborhood became instrumental in the rise ...

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    The new Red Hook rulers called themselves la Mano Nera – the Black Hands – and it had no shortage of willing conscripts.. When local young men were sucked into the underworld, it was usually ...

  9. Organized crime in Miami - Wikipedia

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    Italian-American Mafia criminal organizations in the city are nicknamed the Miami Mafia. In the 20th century, Mafia bosses agreed to share South Florida as a territory open to all crime families, with the exception of the pornography racket, over which the Gambino family held a monopoly. [1] Criminal organizations known to operate in Miami include: