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Mafia

noun as in gang

Weak match

  • cosa nostra
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Adding another who had just skated with the team’s self-professed “Finnish Mafia” at the 4 Nations Face-Off was a no brainer.

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No full-fledged members of the Mexican Mafia were charged in Tuesday’s operation.

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Jose Landa-Rodriguez, a reputed Mexican Mafia member called “Fox,” will serve two more years in prison before being deported to Mexico under a plea agreement.

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According to trial testimony, Landa-Rodriguez was locked in a power struggle with another reputed Mexican Mafia member, Arthur “Turi” Estrada, over who would collect money from drug sales on California prison yards.

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He spent six years in segregated housing, essentially isolation, after Baca said her client was wrongly labeled as a Mexican Mafia associate.

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