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This World Series is rigged, probably by the Dems & the Mafia.
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Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
In the 1980s, federal prosecutors, including future New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, launched a crackdown, using racketeering laws that carried life sentences and capitalizing on an erosion of the Mafia’s code of silence.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
The brazen, high-tech scheme was backed by the Mafia and raked in millions of dollars, according to an indictment unsealed this week.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
Electronic surveillance has been a major tool in the government’s highly successful war against the Mafia nationwide, but nowhere has its impact been felt more dramatically than in Philadelphia.
—George Anastasia, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
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Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
In the 1980s, federal prosecutors, including future New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, launched a crackdown, using racketeering laws that carried life sentences and capitalizing on an erosion of the Mafia’s code of silence.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
The brazen, high-tech scheme was backed by the Mafia and raked in millions of dollars, according to an indictment unsealed this week.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
Electronic surveillance has been a major tool in the government’s highly successful war against the Mafia nationwide, but nowhere has its impact been felt more dramatically than in Philadelphia.
—George Anastasia, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the Mafia
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“The Mafia.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Mafia. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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