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mob, the: a single organized crime family; or all organized crime families together. mobbed up: connected to the mob. mobster: one who is in the mob. oath: becoming inducted as a made man. Omertà: to take a vow of silence in the Mafia, punishable by death if not upheld. one-way ride or taking someone for a ride: underworld for an execution method
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 Nostra as the primary drug traffickers in North America. [17] Musitano crime family – a Calabrian mafia family, based in ...
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Mexican Mafia members held a 30-man conference call, dialing in from various state prisons on contraband cellphones, a witness testified. The consensus: Gonzales had to go.
This list is arranged alphabetically by last name, ... Mob Life: Gangster Kings of Crime Archived 2011-11-19 at the Wayback Machine — slideshow by Life magazine
The term was coined by the press and is informal; the criminal organizations themselves have their own names (e.g. the Sicilian Mafia and the related Italian-American mafia refer to their organizations as "Cosa nostra"; the "Japanese mafia" calls itself "Ninkyō dantai", but is more commonly known as "Yakuza" by the public; "Russian Mafia ...
Name Ethnicity Nickname(s) Comments Sergei Mikhailov: Russian: Mikhas: The leader of the Solntsevskaya bratva: Semyon Mogilevich: Ashkenazi Jewish (Ukrainian Jewish) Uncle Seva, the Brainy Don: Ukrainian mobster who is regarded as one of the most powerful gangsters from the former Soviet Union. Vladimir Kumarin: Russian: Boss of the Tambov gang ...
A protection racket is a type of racket and a scheme of organized crime perpetrated by a potentially hazardous organized crime group that generally guarantees protection outside the sanction of the law to another entity or individual from violence, robbery, ransacking, arson, vandalism, and other such threats, in exchange for payments at regular intervals.