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The American Mafia, [24] [25] [26] commonly referred to in North America as the Italian-American Mafia, the Mafia, or the Mob, [24] [25] [26] is a highly organized Italian-American criminal society and organized crime group.
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.
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]
PayPal is a story of lore within tech circles—a group of twenty- and thirty-somethings that built a global payments startup and sold it to eBay for more than $1.5 billion in less than four years ...
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 ...
Mafia: The Old Country is an upcoming action-adventure game developed by Hangar 13 and published by 2K. It is a prequel to the first game and the fourth entry in the Mafia series. [ 1 ] The game is scheduled to release for PlayStation 5 , Windows , and Xbox Series X/S in mid 2025.
In a 2007 publication, the Italian small-business association Confesercenti reported that about 25.2 percent of Sicilian businesses were indebted to loan sharks, who collected around €1.4 billion a year in payments. [196] This figure rose during the late-2000s recession, as tighter lending by banks forced the desperate to borrow from the Mafia.
[5] [6] On December 22, 2016, after eight years on the run, he was arrested in a small town outside Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [7] He was sentenced to 57 months in prison, [8] but was released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Elkton in June 2020 due to a COVID-19 outbreak. [9] Boone died in Lebanon, Kentucky on June 14, 2024, at the ...