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  2. American Mafia - Wikipedia

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    Today, the Italian-American Mafia cooperates in various criminal activities with Italian organized crime groups, such as the Sicilian Mafia, the Camorra of Campania and the 'Ndrangheta of Calabria. The most important unit of the American Mafia is that of a "family", as the various criminal organizations that make up the Mafia are known. Despite ...

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

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    The following is a listing of enterprises, gangs, mafias, and criminal syndicates that are involved in organized crime.Tongs and outlaw motorcycle gangs, as well as terrorist, militant, and paramilitary groups, are mentioned if they are involved in criminal activity for funding.

  4. 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 ]

  5. Mexican cartels are diversifying business beyond drugs. Here ...

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    Consequently, it is a profitable activity for the local mafias," Saucedo said. "Besides paying an official tax to come to work, you have to pay another one to them," Angel Campos, a vendor at a ...

  6. Mafia - Wikipedia

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    Today the 'Ndrangheta, originating in the southern Italian region of Calabria, is widely considered the richest and most powerful Mafia in the world. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The 'Ndrangheta has been around for as long as the better-known Sicilian Cosa Nostra, but was only recently designated as a Mafia-type association in 2010, under Article 416 bis of the ...

  7. List of Italian Mafia crime families - Wikipedia

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    In Southern Ontario there are two types of Italian organized crime Cosa Nostra (Sicilian) and 'Ndrangheta (Calabrian). [16] 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 ...

  8. Gangs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    There are numerous organized criminal groups with operations in the United States today (including transnational organized crime groups), such as the Sinaloa Cartel, American Mafia, Latin Kings, Jewish mafia, Triad Society, Russian mafia, yakuza, Sicilian Mafia, and Irish Mob.

  9. Genovese crime family - Wikipedia

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    The family is unique in today's Mafia, and has benefited greatly from members following omertà, a code of conduct emphasizing secrecy and non-cooperation with law enforcement and the justice system. While many mobsters from across the country have testified against their crime families since the 1980s, the Genovese family has had only eleven ...