| When it was totally illegal, the Mafia ran prostitution and the numbers rackets right through Chicago and right through New York. |
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| Informants of the US police are willing to testify that Rizzuto was part of a hit squad that took down three Mafia heads in Montreal. |
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| He was born in 1933, and after World War II, joined the Sicilian Mafia as an enforcer. |
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| Where Mafia and drug barons rule, investigators of any kind become targets. |
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| Mafia is the largest island in this archipelago, which is made up of many smaller islands atolls and tidal sandbars. |
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| Television shows such as The Sopranos have made Americans as familiar with the language and customs of the Mafia as any made man. |
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| He felt he was being punished for exposing the links between the business world, the Mafia, the secret Masonic lodges and the secret services. |
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| She never had close relations with her mother, who abhorred the nature of Mafia business and stayed away from any criminal activity. |
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| Because there is no formal structure, Yardie gangs have little resemblance to organisations like the Mafia. |
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| It's no wonder the local Harlem crime lord calls on him when his daughter is kidnapped by the Mafia. |
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| Their heroes are rappers and members of violent gangs such as the Young Americans, the Mafia, the Firm, and Hard Livings. |
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| Mr. Gilmartin jibbed and commented that the demand made the Mafia look like monks. |
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| It's the equivalent of a Mafia don writing the lead article in some law enforcement journal. |
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| If anything justifies the resistance, it is finding out that the people trying to run your country are little better than Mafia dons. |
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| Digging up an old Mafia stereotype always struck the fear into them, thought the Don. |
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| John's father, Joe Kennedy was a bootlegger during the prohibition and was also tied up with Mafia. |
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| Back in New York, Tony Sirico, he plays Paulie Walnuts, a Sopranos family capo who's in trouble with Russian Mafia. |
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| The study found that it wasn't feuding Mafia types paying to bump someone off, but angry spouses and jilted lovers. |
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| Since the 19th century, Mafia islanders have depended upon copra, or dried coconut, as their primary export to world markets. |
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| They haven't reckoned with the intervention of the French wine Mafia, who kidnap the kid for nefarious purposes. |
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| In a recent survey, Neapolitans admitted to fearing the local teenagers more than the Mafia. |
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| How in blue blazes were you supposed to know you'd end up on the wrong side of a Mafia don? |
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| The sea around Mafia is a tropical Marine Park ranging from coral reefs, sea-grass beds, mangroves and inter-tidal flats. |
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| Like the whole tangled story of the casa nostra, the new Mafia museum contains more secrets than meets the eye. |
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| It looks to Bob like the pizza Mafia is out to get him, but the pizza parlors are victims too. |
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| Women in the Mafia have been documented as a rising trend in Italy's criminal underworld. |
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| We're talking about New York, where you'd have Mafia families fighting each other. |
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| Under Italian criminal law it is a criminal offence to be a member of the Mafia. |
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| Instead, like a Mafia boss, he provided protection, backup, and a reputation for brutality in return for a cut of the take. |
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| The money was collected nightly by Mafia bagmen, their suitcases bulging with huge quantities of disappearing cash. |
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| But still, the man could sing like nobody else, even if he did have a tasty little part-time job as a Mafia bagman. |
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| Charges of corruption, Mafia collusion and bribery seem not to have dented his appeal. |
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| He also scourges the bureaucracy and the corruption, and the collusion between the Mafia and politicians. |
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| Gotti joined the powerful Gambino crime family in 1966 when it was headed by Mafia godfather Carlo Gambino. |
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| His FBI handlers allegedly turned a blind eye to his activities as they were more interested in those of the east coast Italian Mafia. |
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| He and several Sicilian businessmen are charged with running legitimate companies as fronts for the Mafia. |
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| The goal of the police campaign is to drive the Mafia out of the city and take Chicago back. |
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| Mafia bloodletting is rare, generally confined to squabbling godfathers in the provinces. |
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| The scene was reminiscent of the Mafia godfather who goes to confession on Sunday before returning to his normal criminal activities on Monday. |
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| In fact, he has stood trial from 1993 on charges of corruption and membership of the Mafia. |
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| He knows the exercise of arbitrary power by studio heads, easily comparable to Mafia godfathers. |
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| The spell is broken and counters, tellers, Mafia bosses, Barry, Jeremy and posh totty get back to the business of checking votes. |
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| As the millennium approached, the Mafia was no longer the nationally recognized and ordered threat it once was. |
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| The fact that he was an unprincipled liar whose election was bought with Mafia help counted for nothing. |
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| He has cast one local politician as a member of the Mafia and another as his moll. |
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| The film has oodles of charm and avoids the obvious pitfalls of comic Mafia spoofs. |
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| Somehow, this terrorism case, stacked between matters of Mafia murder and political boodle, is not so terrifyingly expensive. |
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| Thieves returned a stolen car with a note saying sorry and eight bottles of champagne after discovering it belonged to the son of a Mafia godfather in Castellammare, Sicily. |
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| But security has been a constant presence for a decade, ever since she first learned that the Italian Mafia had put out a contract to kill her. |
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| Soon other mafiosi turned state's evidence that helped prosecutors win convictions of important Mafia bosses. |
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| The first version of the play used the story line of a senior official's abduction by a Mafia boss as a prelude to the main plot which satirized politicians and gangsters. |
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| I am ready today, under certain conditions, to work with the FBI in order to entrap this corrupt Mafia of Finance! |
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| After that he disappeared again, displaced by a parade of Mafia bagmen and enforcers, clearly thrilled by the opportunity to refresh their faded notoriety. |
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| When we do that, we are cramming poor people's money directly into the pockets of the Mafia. |
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| The main islands along the coastal belt are Pemba and Unguja to the north and Mafia Island to the south. |
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| In a Mafia case, there simply isn't going to be much documentary evidence, and there may be no physical or forensic evidence at all. |
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| As you may have noticed, the electronic music news are dominated by the Swedish producers like the Swedish House Mafia or John Dahlback. |
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| Thieves rob the Mafia, killing three mobsters and two cops in the process. |
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| In one, Adlai Stevenson explains, like a displaced Mafia don, why he feels angry at JFK, whose career he helped to advance. |
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| He equates them to the Sicilian Mafia, a criminal group within the population of Sicilians. |
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| And it has hauled a group of Mafia mobsters into the dock to testify. |
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| He used his Mafia links to blackmail politicians and build his influence. |
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| Nationalist organisations started to seek money, using tactics similar to those of the Mafia, to fund violence. |
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| Police say the man had been dealing with a Mafia family in the southern city of Reggio Calabria. |
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| The 20th century saw a rise in the Mafia, dominated by the Five Families, as well as in gangs, including the Black Spades. |
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| During that period, he witnessed several Mafia meetings in the club. |
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| What do most modern-day breeders and the Mafia have in common? |
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| If you have the time to read the intelligence report prepared by the RCMP and the Montreal police about the Mafia in Quebec, you will find the names of important corporations, politicians, lawyers, and builders. |
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| Mafia is a psychological role-playing murder and mystery game for adults. |
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| Every Mafia loan shark knows that if he does not have at his command someone who can break the neck of his debtors, he will have a much lower rate of return. |
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| The Russian Mafia did not take too kindly to a Westerner muscling in on their market, and so decided to send a little message. |
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| Swedish House Mafia got through to this crowd. |
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| Reuter contends that even in the case of the Mafia, we still await a solid understanding, as scholars have for long been embroiled in a sterile debate as to its existence, rather than its strength, durability, and uniqueness. |
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| It's about a contract killer for the Mafia, Richard Kuklinski. |
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| William Shawn, the magazine's famously retiring editor, is represented as a big-mouthed, gun-toting tough, and his venerable magazine undergoes a Mafia takeover. |
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| I am Italian, and I understand very well why the Mafia, at its beginning, functioned on the basis of family clans: all those that are not of the same blood are enemies, and no rights are granted them. |
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| In the 1980s, the Mafia was deeply weakened by a second important campaign led by magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. |
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| In preparation for the invasion, the Allies revitalized the Mafia to aid them. |
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| The battle against the Mafia made by the Kingdom of Italy was controversial and ambiguous. |
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| To say she can be clumsy is a bit like saying the Mafia can be a bit shooty. |
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| This difference is mostly caused by the negative influence of the Mafia that is still active in some areas although it is much weaker than in the past. |
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| The evidence was weakened by Cooper, who claimed that he was an agent for the US Treasury Department investigating links between the American Mafia and the Kray gang. |
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| The bust also served to remind the public that the Mafia is not harmless. |
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| He is now an official frenemy of Mafia lord Salvatore Maroni. |
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| Returning to Italy, Natella discusses other words, purportedly deriving from maf, and studies the changes from Matteo to Maffeo, to Maffia to Mafia, to Maffioso. |
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| Like Mr. Paresi, a pimpy Brooklyn lawyer who my mother claims is the number-one criminal defense attorney in New York, complete with an impressive roster of Mafia clients. |
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| But the two of them are just beginning to scratch the surface of a lethal conspiracy between greedy corporate executives, the Russian Mafia, and Afghani terrorists. |
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| The Mafia and gang presence has declined in the city in the 21st century. |
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| Queen of the B-movies, Mafia Girl and Lover of Elvis Presley. |
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| The other main stage headliner was Kings Of Leon, with headliners on other stages including Jamie Cullum, Basement Jaxx and former Swedish House Mafia DJ Steve Angello. |
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| The Philadelphia trial of an alleged Mafia boss shows that when it comes to threats to privacy, the government will always have an ace in the hole. |
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| A typical set will include the energy of tracks from the likes of Toolroom and the Swedish House Mafia, but also the underground tech sounds of Olivier Giacomotto and Popof. |
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