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  2. 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 ...

  3. 13 charged in Mexican Mafia collection racket in L.A. County ...

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    The case offers yet another illustration of how the Mexican Mafia controls and extracts money from inmates held at the nation's largest jail complex. 13 charged in Mexican Mafia collection racket ...

  4. 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.

  5. 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 50s, 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 ]

  6. Enforcer for slain Mexican Mafia member stabbed to ... - AOL

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    Michael Torres, a member of the Mexican Mafia, was stabbed to death on July 6 at California State Prison, Sacramento. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)

  7. 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 ...

  8. Contraband cellphones, coded messages help Mexican Mafia ...

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    About two-thirds of the Mexican Mafia's 140 members are held in California prisons, which are inundated with illegal cellphones. They use the phones to traffic in drugs, collect money and order ...

  9. Gambino crime family - Wikipedia

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    The Gambino crime family (pronounced [ɡamˈbiːno]) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia.