A crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia.
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Examples for "Mafia "
Examples for "Mafia "
1 And an attempt to answer the question: does the Stellenbosch Mafia exist?
2 However, they also happen to find themselves entangled with the Dixie Mafia .
3 The whole theory of the Mafia struck him as grotesque and theatrical.
4 Valachi named Lucky Luciano as the most important voice within the Mafia .
5 The Mafia definitely exists and hews to a higher standard of obedience.
1 There is Lisa Maffia , who stands out from the crowd, and Terri Walker.
2 He was working on an epic with his model, a painter called Danny Maffia .
3 If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Maffia .
4 Interpreting the phrase literally, the Italian reporter filed a story revealing that youthful Turkish gangsters were easing out the Maffia regulars.
5 But the recession has bitten hard, with the UK's answer to the Wu-Tang now downsized to a trio of Mega Man, Romeo and Lisa Maffia .
1 They are also less involved in politics than Cosa Nostra , he said.
2 They call themselves the Cosa Nostra and come from Sicily, so I understand.
3 Every family of La Cosa Nostra west of Chicago belongs to Chicago .
4 Joseph Massino then did what many in La Cosa Nostra have always done.
5 Like Cosa Nostra before them, MS-13 expanded its operations into gambling and prostitution.
6 La Cosa Nostra was riddled with them and it made Massino even more paranoid.
7 It's sort of the rough equivalent in organized crime of a Sicilian Cosa Nostra Godfather.
8 Why hasn't it been stripped of its funding and rendered illegal like the Cosa Nostra ?
9 It was like the Cosa Nostra deciding to build a battleship in the Hudson River.
10 Cosa Nostra , "This Thing of Ours," had become for each mafioso "My Thing."
11 Everybody in La Cosa Nostra , from the street workers to the boss, had a nickname.
12 Bosses in the Sicilian mob, or Cosa Nostra , maintain their status and power even behind bars.
13 But this was a changed Cosa Nostra , one with a flawed sense of loyalty among thieves.
14 Their deceased brother, Charles Fischetti, was once "boss" of the Chicago La Cosa Nostra .
15 They are among eight reputed members of the New England La Cosa Nostra indicted in September 2011.
16 In the past this signal was only used by Italian dealers working for Cosa Nostra , the Sicilian mafia.
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