organized crime
noun
: a group of professional criminals who work together as part of a powerful and secret organization
He has links to organized crime.
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In the 1980s, there were three major outfits in Massachusetts organized crime – the Mafia, the Winter Hill Gang and the Metropolitan Police Department.
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Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
Police said the organized crime ring has been linked to at least 80 thefts in the area.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 22 Aug. 2025
But, the threats tortilla-makers in Morelos are dealing with highlight the fact that organized crime activity in Mexico affects the legal economy in significant ways.
—Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
According to Victoria Dittmar of Insight Crime, a think tank that studies organized crime in the Americas, production continues by other Sinaloa cartel factions, and has since moved into neighboring states like Sonora and Baja California, where cooks operate under the oversight of the cartel.
—Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
The Wall Street Journal reported in May that the DOJ was investigating how Chinese organized crime groups and drug traffickers used TD Bank to launder money derived from the sale of the deadly opiate fentanyl in the United States.
—Dan Mangan, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2024
Cohn went on to spend 30 years representing many of the biggest names in New York, including athletes, entertainers, a cardinal and organized crime bosses.
—Ron Elving, NPR, 2 June 2024
The perpetrators are real-life mobsters, organized crime syndicates—many of whom engage in child pornography, prostitution, drug trafficking, and other societal ills.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2024
At the time, organized crime in Milwaukee wasn’t as well-known as the Outfit in Chicago or the Mafia in New York.
—Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
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Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
Police said the organized crime ring has been linked to at least 80 thefts in the area.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 22 Aug. 2025
But, the threats tortilla-makers in Morelos are dealing with highlight the fact that organized crime activity in Mexico affects the legal economy in significant ways.
—Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
According to Victoria Dittmar of Insight Crime, a think tank that studies organized crime in the Americas, production continues by other Sinaloa cartel factions, and has since moved into neighboring states like Sonora and Baja California, where cooks operate under the oversight of the cartel.
—Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
The Wall Street Journal reported in May that the DOJ was investigating how Chinese organized crime groups and drug traffickers used TD Bank to launder money derived from the sale of the deadly opiate fentanyl in the United States.
—Dan Mangan, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2024
Cohn went on to spend 30 years representing many of the biggest names in New York, including athletes, entertainers, a cardinal and organized crime bosses.
—Ron Elving, NPR, 2 June 2024
The perpetrators are real-life mobsters, organized crime syndicates—many of whom engage in child pornography, prostitution, drug trafficking, and other societal ills.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2024
At the time, organized crime in Milwaukee wasn’t as well-known as the Outfit in Chicago or the Mafia in New York.
—Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
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