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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.
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
In the 1980s, there were three major outfits in Massachusetts organized crime – the Mafia, the Winter Hill Gang and the Metropolitan Police Department.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
He was marked much more than me in that world, hanging around with the Mafia guys.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
His range of topics was extraordinary: Ibizan fishermen, Ernest Hemingway, Seville, the Mafia, and the genocide of South American Indian tribes.
—Maggie Turner, Air Mail, 20 Sep. 2025
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
In the 1980s, there were three major outfits in Massachusetts organized crime – the Mafia, the Winter Hill Gang and the Metropolitan Police Department.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
He was marked much more than me in that world, hanging around with the Mafia guys.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
His range of topics was extraordinary: Ibizan fishermen, Ernest Hemingway, Seville, the Mafia, and the genocide of South American Indian tribes.
—Maggie Turner, Air Mail, 20 Sep. 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 27 Oct. 2025.
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