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Cosa Nostra

the branch of the Mafia that operates in the USA.
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This land mafia has also established fish processing units illegally in residential area of the Manjhar Goth located near Mubarak village.
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This mafia, I think, is organized,' Ferrer said in reply to questions from Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon.
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The various clans and members of the Sicilian mafia are known as"Casa Nostra" or "our thing" in Italian.
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Apparently targeting the PML-N leadership, the prime minister called them the "Pakistani mafia" and compared them to the Sicilian mafia which used blackmail and threats to pressurise the judiciary and other institutions.
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In a tweet, the premier stated that the 'mafia' was relying on the 'tactics of bribe, threat, blackmail and begging to pressurise [the] state institutions and judiciary.'
You're part of mafia that pressurises judges, Maryam hits back at PM
The prime minister said, "In a similar vein to the 'Sicilian mafia', the Pakistani mafia uses tactics of bribe, threat, blackmail and begging to pressurise state institutions and judiciary in order to protect their billions of money laundering stashed abroad." figure contenteditable="false
Maryam Nawaz to PM Imran: 'You're part of the mafia that targets political opponents'
"Our region was considered one of top cotton producer regions but pesticide mafia has damaged agriculture," he said.
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Thousands of cubic feet illegal pine wood was seized during the operations and First Information Reports(FIR) were registered against10 culprits of the timber mafia including Tehsil Council member Khalid Qureshi.
Illegal pine wood seized in Mansehra
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Let's break down the characteristics of the sort of mob Comey was referring here, based on what we know about the mother of all mobs: the Italian Mafia.
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The new enemies of Europe are not ideologies but the mafia. Not only the armed mafia but the mafia in suits and ties, the economic mafia who recycle money from the drug trade.
Italian journalist: The Courts say that the Vadalas are from 'Ndrangheta. That's all there is to it
ONE of the most feared Mafia godfathers of all time died of cancer yesterday, aged 87.
Mafia 'boss of bosses' dies of cancer in jail, aged 87

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