A crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia.
1They are also less involved in politics than Cosa Nostra, he said.
2They call themselves the Cosa Nostra and come from Sicily, so I understand.
3Every family of La Cosa Nostra west of Chicago belongs to Chicago .
4Joseph Massino then did what many in La Cosa Nostra have always done.
5Like Cosa Nostra before them, MS-13 expanded its operations into gambling and prostitution.
6La Cosa Nostra was riddled with them and it made Massino even more paranoid.
7It's sort of the rough equivalent in organized crime of a Sicilian Cosa Nostra Godfather.
8Why hasn't it been stripped of its funding and rendered illegal like the Cosa Nostra?
9It was like the Cosa Nostra deciding to build a battleship in the Hudson River.
10Cosa Nostra, "This Thing of Ours," had become for each mafioso "My Thing."
11Everybody in La Cosa Nostra, from the street workers to the boss, had a nickname.
12Bosses in the Sicilian mob, or Cosa Nostra, maintain their status and power even behind bars.
13But this was a changed Cosa Nostra, one with a flawed sense of loyalty among thieves.
14Their deceased brother, Charles Fischetti, was once "boss" of the Chicago La Cosa Nostra.
15They are among eight reputed members of the New England La Cosa Nostra indicted in September 2011.
16In the past this signal was only used by Italian dealers working for Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia.
Translations for cosa nostra