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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:
Fainberg lived in Miami between 1990 and 1997 and owned a topless bar called Porky's, named for the movie. [3] He was arrested and convicted of smuggling and racketeering. He spent 30 months in jail before his trial and conviction. [4] As of October 2012 he was in Panama, jailed and awaiting trial for pimping. [5]
The Chechen mafia is one of the largest ethnic organized crime groups operating in the former Soviet Union next to established Russian mafia groups. The Georgian mafia is regarded as one of the biggest, powerful and influential criminal networks in Europe, which has produced the biggest number of thieves in law in all former USSR countries.
A Russian operator of a China-based cryptocurrency exchange with links to South Florida and other parts of the world appeared in federal court in Miami Wednesday on charges of running an ...
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Members of the community have said that, for years, they felt as though they were fighting the “Gallego Mafia.” But $60,000 looks like weak tea compared with the most recent allegations of a ...
The term Russian Mafia, 'mafiya' or mob is a blanket (and somewhat inaccurate) term for the various organized crime groups that emerged in this period from the 15 former republics of the USSR and unlike their Italian counterparts does not mean members are necessarily of Russian ethnicity or uphold any ancient criminal traditions, although this ...
Jurijus Kadamovas was born on October 22, 1966, in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Iouri Gherman Mikhel was born on April 9, 1965, in Leningrad, USSR. [5] Both men were foreign nationals who emigrated to the United States and lived in Los Angeles, California.